My head is still spinning and my mind is still decompressing from everything I learned at the Blackhat and Defcon conferences last week. Blackhat and Defcon are what are professionally known as InfoSec (Information Security) conferences – or...
I just re-emerged to the world of the living from a week of sessions at Black Hat and DEFCON conferences here in Las Vegas. Between sessions on how to make your own UAVs, hack a home’s network through their power lines, and conversations on the...
Last year when I went to DefCon (a hacker's conference here in Las Vegas), I asked a few hackers just how hard it was to get into Google or the cloud in general. Clouds are pretty and white and good in the sky at least, but what about on the Internet?
I was at DefCon this year, a hacker and security conference in Las Vegas, and it's a well-known fact that Facebook has no checks for security on its apps. So it seems we're in the midst of yet another Facebook privacy "gaffe" uncovered by the Wall...
NBC's Dateline attempt to infiltrate DefCon in Las Vegas this weekend has been discovered by the convention organisers. Defcon staff and security were informed that NBC Dateline was sending five people with undercover cameras to film attendees.
The information was presented at the 15th annual DefCon convention in Las Vegas this weekend. The Black Hat convention In Las Vegas disclosed vunerabilities in Gmail and other cookie based email programs.
