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Category: General Security
Shell Shock: Major Bash vulnerability disclosed. May affect a large number of websites and web apps.
A major vulnerability in the Bash shell has been disclosed today.
The Black War
The US Justice Department today indicted five Chinese Military officers for hacking.
What to do about the Adobe Hack.
Within the last 48 hours Adobe announced that they have been hacked and that the user account data of 2.9 million Adobe users has been breached.
The other reason you want to enforce strong passwords for your users
In a conversation I was having recently with a cryptography enthusiast I was reminded of a very important reason you may want to enforce strong/complex passwords on your website.
Hacking cars to do scary stuff
Here’s a fun little hack from Charlie Miller, a security engineer at Twitter and Chris Valasek from IOActive.
DefCon update #1
Amazon day at DefCon in Vegas with around 30,000 hackers and geeks at the Rio.
Getting temporarily off the grid for DefCon…
DefCon, the largest hacker conference in the world officially started today, but the main conference kicks off tomorrow morning with a few great sessions.
Listening in on Cellphones
I just got out of Tom Ritter, Doug DePerry and Andrew Rahimi’s amazing talk titled “I can hear you now” which was standing room only in the Palace room at Caesars.
General Alexander’s Keynote Speech at Black Hat 2013
I just finished listening to the Keynote presentation at Black Hat 2013, the largest hacker/CyberSecurity conference all year, from General Kieth Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency.
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