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• Black Hat with a Vista twist

  Black Hat is not just about breaking and entering this year as Windows Vista and IE7 come under the spotlight.

• Apple security talk cancelled

  Just days before the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, a talk on Apple's FileVault encryption system has been abruptly cancelled by its presenter.

• Vista hacked at Black Hat

  While Microsoft talked up Windows Vista security at Black Hat, a researcher in another room demonstrated how to hack the operating system.

• FBI calls for hacker help

  The FBI needs help from hackers to fight cybercrime, an agency official said on the first day of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

• PC hardware can pose rootkit threat

  PC hardware components can provide a way for hackers to sneak malicious code onto a computer, a security researcher warned Wednesday.

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  Baiting the Black Hats?

  The CIO of a rather large Australian company recently told me that the firm was happy with its security set-up but then quickly made a U-turn. Would that statement, on record, effectively lay down a hacker challenge?

Features and Case Studies (18)

• Better tools let hackers strike more quickly

  Increasingly, attackers are using better tools to find vulnerabilities quickly, exploit flaws and hide their attacks.

• Black Hat/ White Hat: RFP's security basics

  The White Hat Hacker, known only as Rain Forest Puppy, explains a litany of security holes in operating systems and applications from Sendmail to Solaris, and tells you what to do to avoid them.

• Turning script kiddies into real programmers

  How can you interest young people in the noble professions of programming and computer security while discouraging the glamorous world of illegal hacking? It's not easy.

• Security: Companies asleep at the wheel?

  IT observer Jon Oltsik says corporate network defenses protect against the wrong enemy. Additional reading: Microsoft's bounty hunter

• Securing Microsoft 2: hackers invited to Redmond

  In part two of 'Securing Microsoft', we learn how the company slowly became more intimate with the security community. Microsoft's slow shift to focus more on security came to a head with Vista, with more money spent in securing Vista than anybody has ever been invested into securing any piece of software before.

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  Defcon: Where feds and hackers rub elbows

  It's an unlikely pairing: security officials and underground hackers. Every year, they make peace and share information at Defcon, Black Hat's sister conference.

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