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Johnny Cache speaks out at ToorCon 8
David Maynor was blocked at the last minute to appear at Toorcon 8 in San Diego and Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch was stuck with no speaking partner or presentation.  A lot of stories have been quoting this talk and some bloggers have been characterizing it negative in various ways even...
Tags: Johnny Cache, Security, ToorCon 8
Blog posts 2006-10-02

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ToorCon / Firefox claims withdrawn
Claims made by Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi atlast weekends ToorCon have been watered down and withdrawn. After discussion with Window Snyder Mozillassecurity chief, Spiegelmock provided Mozillas engineers with additional codesamples along with a note explaining the risks. This note was posted to the mozilladeveloper centre; in it Spiegelmock...
Tags: Mischa Spiegelmock, Mozilla Firefox, ToorCon
Blog posts 2006-10-05
Photos: Hackers outline Firefox crack
At ToorCon conference in San Diego, hackers' presentation includes both dark humor and serious discussion.
Tags: conference, crack, hacker, humor, Mozilla Firefox, photograph, San Diego
Image galleries 2006-10-02
Firefox runs in to trouble
ToorConis upon us and with it comes a bit of bad news for users of the Firefox webbrowser! Yet another possible flaw inthe FirefoxÂ’s JavaScript handling means that malicious code execution threatensWindows, OS X and Linux users of Firefox. Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi gave a presentation where theydetailed...
Tags: FirefoxÂ, flaw, Mozilla Firefox, ToorCon
Blog posts 2006-10-02
Apple patches Wi-Fi but refuses to give researchers credit
[UPDATE 9/25/2006: The word "due" was dropped from the title because it is now disputed by Apple. Apple has issued a strong denial that anything useful was given to them and responded to this blog in detail.]After all the controversy, it turns out that there really are critical vulnerabilities...
Tags: Wireless LANs, Notebooks, Patches, Wi-Fi, David Maynor, Brian Krebs, Apple Computer Inc., SecureWorks Inc., Black Hat, Apple MacBook
Blog posts 2006-09-23
Cafe Latte and AP-less WEP cracking
During the ToorCon 9 conference-where security experts get together with the hacking community to discuss new vulnerabilities-security researcher Viviek Ramachandran demonstrated an innovative technique used to compromise networks encrypted with WEP. I can just hear the comments "old news, nobody uses that anymore." Surprisingly, WEP is still used by many...
Tags: Notebook, WEP, Network, IP Address, Computer, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Network Security, Security, Networking, Michael Kassner
Blog posts 2007-10-21
Security news roundup: Updates available for Firefox and Safari
Here's a collection of recent security vulnerabilities, alerts, and news, which covers news that Microsoft will not prosecute ethical hackers probing its Web site for security hole; an exploitable flaw in the DivX Player involving subtitle files; and minor updates available for both Firefox and Safari Web browsers. ...
Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, DivXNetworks, Web Browser, Flaw, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2008-04-21
How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers
Last summer when I wrote "Vicious orchestrated assault on MacBook wireless researchers", it set off a long chain of heated debated and blogs. I had hoped to release the information on who orchestrated the vicious assault but threats of lawsuits and a spineless company that refused to defend itself...
Tags: Apple, Defcon2006, Mobile/Wireless, News, Security, ~Events~
Blog posts 2007-03-20
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