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Seven Highly Anticipated Talks at Black Hat, DefCon Events – eWeek


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Seven Highly Anticipated Talks at Black Hat, DefCon Events
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Another highly anticipated session is security researcher Joshua Drake's talk about the Stagefright vulnerability in Android, which has left 950 million Android users at risk. Drake's session is at the exact same time as Miller and Valasek's car

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DEFCON 1: 5 Internet Security Stocks To Consider As Cyber Attacks Escalate – Seeking Alpha

DEFCON 1: 5 Internet Security Stocks To Consider As Cyber Attacks Escalate
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Cyber attacks, cyber crime and network threats are increasing in volume, intensity, and sophistication as 2013 approaches. Such attacks threaten our national security and do billions of dollars of damage to our economy. 2013 will usher a new set of

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Persistent router botnets on the horizon, researcher says at Defcon – PC Advisor

Persistent router botnets on the horizon, researcher says at Defcon
PC Advisor
Security researcher Michael Coppola demonstrated how small and home office (SOHO) routers can be compromised and turned into botnet clients by updating them with backdoored versions of vendor-supplied firmware. Related Articles. Teach your router new

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DEFCON Kids: Hacking roller coasters and the power grid with cell phones

When you think about hacking conferences with about 15,000 hackers attending, 8-year-old kids might not be your first thought. Yet Def Con Kids was so amazing that I cannot encourage you enough to enroll your kids next year. Read more

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