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Source: New Scientist - Posted by Anthony Pell
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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. |
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Source: TrendMicro - Posted by Anthony Pell
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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. |
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Source: Dark Reading - Posted by Anthony Pell
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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. |
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Source: H Security - Posted by Anthony Pell
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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. |
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Source: H Security - Posted by Anthony Pell
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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. |
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Source: ThreatPost - Posted by Anthony Pell
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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. |
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Source: Network World - Posted by Alex
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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.
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Source: Internet News - Posted by Alex
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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.
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Source: Computer World - Posted by Anthony Pell
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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. |
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Source: Computer Weekly - Posted by Alex
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Cybersecurity is one of the key topics at the RSA Conference 2011 taking place this week in San Francisco.
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