Black Hat 2008: Dan Kaminsky
Saturday, August 16th, 2008httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-SSVxsH7vw Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-SSVxsH7vw
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Researcher Offers Malware Analysis Tool
Friday, July 18th, 2008The problem with hunting for malware is that most currently available analysis tools tip off the attacker that you're doing it. But at next month's Black Hat conference, a researcher will release a tool that is harder to detect -- and harder to avoid -- than the malware analyzers currently ...
Massive DNS security problem endangers the internet
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008US-CERT and other security experts have warned of a critical design problem affecting all DNS implementations. The Domain Name Service is responsible for converting readable names like www.heise-online.co.uk into the IP addresses that computers can handle, such as 193.99.144.85. DNS is thus the internet equivalent to a phonebook and without ...
The case of the tampered USBs
Monday, May 12th, 2008For years, organizations have focused on the evil outsiders that were behind attacks on their networks. Firewalls, IDS, IPS technologies have come to the rescue and have resulted in impregnable walls protecting organization networks. Now with strong walls, the challenge is ensuring the trusted insiders don't walk out with the ...
New type of rootkit hidden in hardware
Monday, May 12th, 2008Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's chip, undetected by today's anti-virus products. Called a System Management Mode (SMM) rootkit, the software runs in a protected part of a computer's memory that can be locked and rendered ...
