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Black Hat 2008: Browser Memory Protection Bypasses

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:18:33 -0700

DEP and ASLR are supposed to make exploits more difficult, but thirdy party software like Flash and Java are not compatible with those protections, making a mess of browser memory protection.

Black Hat 2008: The Internet Is Broken

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:18:51 -0700

Nate McFeters, Senior Security Advisor at Ernst & Young, talks about several fun little vulnerabilities, including bypassing same origina policy using XML & Flash.

Black Hat 2008: The Zen of Xen

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:02:12 -0700

Joanna Rutkowska talks about the security of the Xen Hypervisor, the latest updates to Blue Pill and other things IT managers need to think about regarding Hypervisor security.

Black Hat 2008: How Hackers Get Rich (& other sordid tales)

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:00:58 -0700

White Hat Security regales us with tales of hackers getting rich by exploiting the flaws of web applications and web process design.

Black Hat 2008: Hacking the Human Body

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:01:52 -0700

Researchers begin to look at the frightenting possibility of hackers compromising implantable medical devices, doing severe damage or gaining private information.

Black Hat 2008: Satan Is On My Friends List

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:59:04 -0700

Computer Security Institute's Senior Editor, Sara Peters, speaks with Shawn Moyer, Sr. Security Consultant with FishNet Securitiy and Nathan Hamiel, Sr. Consultant at Idea Information Security about the inherent flaws in social networks.

Black Hat 2008: Hacking the Presidential Candidates

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:25:52 -0700

Typo Squatting and Cross Site Scripting are just a couple of the recent threats facing the presidential candidate web sites, according to researcher Oliver Friedrichs.

Black Hat 2008: Meet The Fed

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:24:57 -0700

Jim Christy, the Director of Futures Exploration at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, talks about the increasing sophistication of attacks that he is starting to see.

Black Hat 2008: Storm BotNet Update from Joe Stewart

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:25:15 -0700

Black Hat speaker Joe Stewart talks about the latest trends with the Storm Botnet and some new happenings with the more insidious Coreflood.

Black Hat 2008: Chris Hoff on Virtualization Security

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:24:41 -0700

Organizations rolling out virtualized environments need to think about how to secure those environments. Dark Reading's Senior Editor, Kelly Jackson Higgins, speaks with Chris Hoff, Chief Security Architect with Unisys, about this topic.

Black Hat 2008: Dan Kaminsky and the Notorious DNS Flaw

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:53:05 -0700

Last month, the world learned that Dan Kaminsky had discovered a seriousl vulnerability with DNS, which he unveiled at this year's Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas. Dark Reading's Site Editor, Tim Wilson, talks with Dan about the flaw.

Black Hat 2008: Ian Angell

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:50:43 -0700

Director of CSI, Robert Richardson, speaks with Ian Angell at Black Hat 2008 in Las Vegas about how technology sometimes backfires and isn't always the magic bullet.

Black Hat 2008: Hacking The Tollway System

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:09:30 -0700

Dark Reading's Kelly Jackson Higgins talks to Root Labs Nate Lawson about his experiment to hack the toll systems. Lawson discusses the privacy and security implications of his findings.

Black Hat 2008: Phishing The Phishers

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:55:18 -0700

InformationWeek Editor at Large, Thomas Claburn, speaks with Billy K. Rios of Microsoft and Nitesh Dhanjani of Ernst & Young, Black Hat presenters who inflitrated the phishing ecosystem and learned a great deal about how they operate.