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22 Nov

French journalists steal passwords at security conference, get kicked out

Three French journalists were kicked out of the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas yesterday. They were caught sniffing the press room’s Wi-Fi network. The journalists were from the magazine Global Security, and said they’re hacking was merely a “joke.” They were ...

Bury CrunchGear August 08

CNET News Daily Podcast: Journalist-on-journalist hacking at Black Hat

Three reporters from a French security magazine are booted from Black Hat after sniffing the press room wireless network for the access info of fellow journalists. ...


Linkpost | 8.8.2008

• New Report Says Tiered Broadband Bad, Unlikely -- And that's good. • Vista's Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit -- Gets around the memory space protection added by Microsoft. • Black Hat 2008: FasTrak toll system completely broken... ...

Bury TechBlog August 08

Targeted for hacking by reporters at my table

A CNET News reporter explains how she may or may not have gotten hacked at the Black Hat security conference. ...

Bury CNET News.com August 08

CG’s John Biggs Signs a Big Boy Book Deal

Wow. I’m completely speechless right now. Our very own Editor-in-chief John Biggs has himself a real book deal. That’s not to say his previous foray with “Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age” was anything to scoff at, but Biggityboo’s (tha...


How Phishers Think, Act, and Make a Profit

whitehartstag writes with a write up of "the excellent session at Black Hat that detailed 'how phishers create sites, share info and code, and basically are lazy.' They store their stolen data 'on websites that they have hacked into, or on [publically available] sites like guestbooks. And ev...

Bury Slashdot August 08

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