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  • E-voting critic calls on hackers to expose flaws

    Electronic voting systems have major security problems and hackers should make it their mission to find the flaws, an e-voting critic told security researchers on Thursday.

  • Maligned security industry gathers

    Security experts and hackers are congregating in Las Vegas this week, as a continual stream of alerts creates scepticism over the industry's effectiveness.

  • Panel defends flaw disclosure guidelines

    A group formed to set rules for disclosing information about security flaws on Wednesday defended its latest revision and called for researchers to adopt its guidelines.

  • Microsoft blog lifts lid on Redmond white hat hackers

    Microsoft has launched a blog that will discuss penetration testing and vulnerability testing of Microsoft code.

  • Fedora reboots updates after hack

    The Red Hat-supported Fedora Project has started issuing updates to its Linux distribution again, after a hiatus of several weeks caused by a hacker break-in.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Unpatched VoIP hole cracked at Black Hat

    Researches have demonstrated a vulnerability in VoIP software which they claim allows a the hacker to take control of a victim's computer.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • World Cup match-up: FIFA vs hackers

    FIFA's networking partner said today it was expecting hackers to launch huge denial of service attacks against the World Cup football network as the first game of the long-awaited tournament in Germany draws closer.

  • Herbless the hacker goes legitimate

    A UK hacker who made a name for himself cracking commercial Web servers and posting political messages on corporate sites, says that he/she is now keen to move into legitimate security work.

  • Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox

    The open-source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said Saturday afternoon in the US.

  • 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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