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July 29, 2010 Researcher Demonstrates ATM "jackpotting" At Black Hat Send by amprather At the Black Hat Conference, a security researcher made a pair of ATM machines rain $20 bills after he reprogrammed one over a network and plugged a USB flash drive into another. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 29, 2010 New E-mail Scam Targets Job Seekers Send by ldeforest A slick, new e-mail scam is putting well-intentioned job seekers at risk of losing $3,000 -- and being arrested for check fraud, an investigator revealed at the Black Hat security conference Wednesday. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 29, 2010 WikiLeaks And Black Hat: A Busy Week For The Cyber World Posted by Willian Smith This week has proved to be busy for the cyber world and those with a close eye on security. Kicking off the week with the Wikileaks case that exposed more than 90K secret US military documents, the Washington bureau of the Agence France Presse reported that ?WikiLeaks highlights the security challen [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 30, 2010 ATMs At Risk, Researcher Warns At Black Hat - The Community's ... Posted by Willian Smith Here on the first day of the Black Hat conference, Barnaby Jack, director of research at IOActive, demonstrated attacks that would allow a criminal to compromise ATMs, allowing hypothetical thieves to steal cash, copy customers' ATM [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 30, 2010 Bugs Allowed Access To Black Hat Streams For Free :: Hack In The ... Posted by Willian Smith Black Hat is a technical security conference, which brings together thousands of industry researchers, professionals and journalists every year in Las Vegas. Black Hat and its sister conference DEF CON, are widely viewed as the top [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 29, 2010 Researcher Demonstrates ATM 'Jackpotting' At Black Hat Conference ... Send by iteach LAS VEGAS ? In a city filled with slot machines spilling jackpots, it was a 'jackpotted' ATM machine that got the most attention Wednesday at the Black Hat. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 30, 2010 Lookout's App Genome Project Warns About Sketchy Apps You May Have Already Downloaded Posted by Willian Smith Lookout's App Genome Project warns about sketchy apps you may have already downloaded If you're an iPhone user, the only privacy notice you'll see from an app regards your current location -- as much a warning about the associated battery hit from the GPS pinging as anything. If you're an Android us [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 29, 2010 Malware In The Android Market? SHOCKING! Posted by Willian Smith The Android Market doesn?t need to be cleaned up just to put things in some kind of logical order so it easier to search for an application or to get rid of the several dozen applications that do the exact same nothing. No, it needs to be cleaned up because it has become downright unsafe. A mobile s [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 28, 2010 Behind The Scenes At Black Hat - Security Tips & Talk - Site Home ... Send by Marcelle Amelia Today at the Black Hat USA 2010 conference Microsoft announced the extension of the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) to include vulnerability information from Adobe Systems. MAPP is a collaborative effort that helps protect [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 29, 2010 Stratification Up Posted by Willian Smith layering clothing is a great way to get a new look for your craft closet. A simple addition of a scarf, sweater or a jacket with one another along the way, the changes in the overall look of your dress. Layering allows you to mix and edit all your clothes, new with the old, etc. It 'a great excuse t [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 28, 2010 Coffee To Code Blog Archive Mostly Ready For BlackHat & Defcon Send by Patrick Thomas Mostly Ready for BlackHat & Defcon. As everyone's gearing up for the madness this week, I thought I'd join in. I'll be giving talks at both BlackHat and Defcon on some of my recent work in webapp fingerprinting. At BlackHat: (Wed 7/28, [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 30, 2010 AT&T Won't Stop Black Hat Demo Posted by Willian Smith AT&T says it won't interfere with a highly anticipated talk on intercepting cell phone calls at the Black Hat conference this week, even though rumors are circulating that it will do just that. Source: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/072810-att-we-dont-intend-to.html [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 29, 2010 Money Lost In The BP Disaster Posted by Willian Smith I caught the arse end of a tweet this morning, and having not done a ranty blogpost in a while I think it lit my fuse. From: @mrrichclark Sent: 29 Jul 2010 08:09 RT @BrandRepublic What could the money lost in the BP disaster buy? http://ht.ly/2i4Ff #oilspill #bp [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 28, 2010 Madonnas A Hat Girl Posted by Willian Smith The 51-year-old recently revealed that she decided to partner up with her 13-year-old daughter Lourdes on their Material Girl collection because she wanted to be sure what was 'cool' in fashion and what wasn't. She told USA Today: 'Since I have a few careers going I decided I wasn't going to get int [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 30, 2010 News Of Note ? Black Hat Edition WISPA Send by agoldman News of Note ? Black Hat Edition. by Alex Goldman. Have your customers been hit? A Russian criminal gang is promising to pay cash to people who cash checks for them ? but the checks are skillful forgeries. [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 27, 2010 SEOmoz | YOUmoz - When Paid Links Aren't Black-hat Send by Croni Recently the paid vs. natural link discussion seemed to get some attention (again, sigh?). I couldn't agree more with Ross, who questions whether paid link equals evil black-hat and organic link equals praiseworthy white-hat SEO [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 27, 2010 Black Hat Technical Security Conference // Home Posted by Willian Smith news. 2010 Pwnie Awards to be hosted at Black Hat USA: special events partnership with Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition: black pages [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

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