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For computers, immunity is still a long way off  19 April 2011 
Source: New Scientist - Posted by Anthony Pell   
In the Cabinet War Rooms in Whitehall, London - the bunker where Winston Churchill all but ran the UK's second world war operations - cybersecurity specialists summoned by antivirus firm Symantec today explained their views on defeating computer crime ahead of this week's Infosecurity conference in London.
 
Blackhat Europe 2011 Recap – Day 1  08 April 2011 
Source: TrendMicro - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Its been almost 3 weeks now since Blackhat Europe was held in Barcelona, Spain – and some of Trend Micro’s threat researchers went along to attend the interesting workshops and talks that were scheduled. Rather than give an in-depth run down on each of the talks we attended, I wanted to give an overview of some of the highlights of the event overall – at least from my perspective.
 
Social Engineering 'Capture The Flag' Contest Returns To DefCon  25 March 2011 
Source: Dark Reading - Posted by Anthony Pell   
The first-ever social engineering contest at DefCon in Las Vegas last year went way too well: each contestant was able to successfully social-engineer some piece of information, or "flag," out of their targeted company.
 
Pwn2Own 2011: Google patches hole in Chrome  14 March 2011 
Source: H Security - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Although Chrome wasn't attacked directly at the contest, Google has released an update for the Windows, Linux and Mac OS X versions of its browser. The update closes a hole in WebKit that was originally exploited in Blackberry devices – because, like the Blackberry browser, Chrome and Safari are also based on WebKit.
 
Pwn2Own 2011: Day 2 - iPhone and Blackberry hacked  11 March 2011 
Source: H Security - Posted by Anthony Pell   
The second day of the Pwn2Own competition, organised by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) team at security researchers TippingPoint, was devoted to iPhone and BlackBerry. Charlie Miller exploited a vulnerability in the mobile version of the Safari web browser on iOS 4.2.1 to delete the address book when a manipulative website was visited.
 
Why Pwn2Own Is What's Right With Security  10 March 2011 
Source: ThreatPost - Posted by Anthony Pell   
When the Pwn2Own contest began in 2007, it was dismissed by some in the industry as nothing more than a publicity stunt meant to inflate the egos of researchers while embarrassing software vendors. But as the fifth edition of the hacker challenge gets underway at the CanSecWest conference here this week, it has evolved into a display of some of the few things that are actually good and right with the security community.
 
Google's Chrome untouched at Pwn2Own hack match  10 March 2011 
Source: Network World - Posted by Alex   
Google's $20,000 was as safe at Pwn2Own Wednesday as if it had been in the bank. The search giant had promised to pay $20,000 to the first researcher who broke into Chrome on the hacking contest's opening day.
 
Why Pwn2Own doesn't target Linux  09 March 2011 
Source: Internet News - Posted by Alex   
The annual Pwn2Own hacking challenge kicks off today, pitting security researchers against web browsers and mobile platforms. The HP TippingPoint sponsored event grows every year to include more platforms, though Linux isn't among them.
 
Familiar faces, new names step up at Pwn2Own hacking contest  25 February 2011 
Source: Computer World - Posted by Anthony Pell   
The Pwn2Own hacking contest next month will feature its largest-ever crew of contestants, including past winners, a French security firm armed with a bagful of bugs and an iPhone jailbreak expert who has been sued by Sony.
 
RSA 2011: Cybersecurity leads conference with cloud security keynote  15 February 2011 
Source: Computer Weekly - Posted by Alex   
Cybersecurity is one of the key topics at the RSA Conference 2011 taking place this week in San Francisco.
 
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