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Researchers extend Firesheep to exploit Google Search data leak

08

Sep

2011

A pair of security researchers have created their own version of the notorious Firesheep plugin to expose a data leak in the world’s favourite search engine. The proof-of-concept plugin exploits the use of unencrypted cookies by Google’s Web History feature. Although you need to be logged in to make use of Web History it does […]

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DEFCON 2011: SSL and the future of authenticity

16

Aug

2011

I had the pleasure of attending Moxie Marlinspike’s DEFCON talk “SSL And The Future Of Authenticity.” Marlinspike is a great presenter and he doesn’t just point out the problems with what we are doing now, but proposes solutions, often with working proof-of-concept code. Marlinspike didn’t disappoint and began the talk with a funny story, rather […]

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Hack wireless industrial sensors in a few easy steps

10

Aug

2011

On the heels of the recent activity with Stuxnet, the industrial process control computer worm that targeted Iranian nuclear centrifuges, a Blackhat talk by Thanassis Giannetsos explains how to hack yet another commonly used family of controllers. We have mused that this trend, targeting critical infrastructure nodes, is but a shade of things yet to […]

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