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Sophos Antivirus Flaws Revealed at Hacker Conference

07

Aug

2011

LAS VEGAS — A researcher presenting at Black Hat picked apart Sophos Antivirus software and found it lacking in several areas that leave it vulnerable to attack or circumvention — something he says might apply to other antivirus vendors’ products as well, but he just hasn’t looked. Tavis Ormandy, who works as a researcher for […]

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Black Hat USA 2011

06

Aug

2011

It’s the week of Black Hat and DEF CON and thousands of computer security experts have gathered to Las Vegas. Hot topics this year include Siemens PLC security, revamping the SSL model and Mac laptop batteries. Mikko keynoting in DEF CON 19 One talk which was highly anticipated was Riley Hassell’s and Shane Macauley’s “Hacking […]

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BH 2011: Hacking Google ChromeOS

04

Aug

2011

Matt Johansen and Kyle Osborn presented their paper at Black Hat this morning titled “Hacking Google ChromeOS”. Google’s netbook operating system has been touted as the first platform that has been designed to be malware free from the start. Users are not able to download/install/execute code on a ChromeBook, they are only allowed to download […]

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