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Stories by: Robert McMillan

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Anti-Georgia spammers building new botnet 18/08/2008 05:02:00

Hackers targeting Georgia in the midst of its conflict with Russia have started sending out a new batch of malicious spam messages, apparently with the aim of building a new botnet network of remote-controlled computers.
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What your goofy e-mail address really says about you 15/08/2008 07:37:00

What's in a Web mail address? If you happen to be iamthegreatest@gmail.com, for example, will people think you a narcissist? And if they do, will they be right?
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Reporters ejected after Black Hat network attack 11/08/2008 10:29:34

Here's a lesson for reporters covering the Black Hat security conference: Trust noone.
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EFF to appeal court order halting subway hacker talk 11/08/2008 09:21:50

The Electronic Frontier Foundation plans to appeal a U.S. District Court order imposing a temporary injunction on a Defcon presentation that would have detailed flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority electronic ticketing system.
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Now at Black Hat: a lawyer to vet your hacking 08/08/2008 08:53:02

There's a new service for conference speakers at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this year: lawyers on call.
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Kaminsky: Many ways to attack with DNS 07/08/2008 08:47:13

There were 6 a.m. calls from Finnish certificate authorities and also some pretty harsh words from his peers in the security community, even an accidentally leaked Black Hat presentation, but after managing the response to one of the most highly publicized Internet flaws in recent memory, Dan Kaminsky said Wednesday that he'd do it all over again.
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Cisco routers again take hacker spotlight 06/08/2008 08:41:29

The Cisco hacking scene has been pretty quiet for the past three years, but at this week's Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, there's going to be a little noise.
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Apple nixes security engineering talk 04/08/2008 08:33:26

Apple has pulled its security engineering team out of a planned public discussion on the company's security practices, which had been set for this week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.
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Firewall vendors scramble to fix DNS problem 04/08/2008 08:18:31

Nearly a month after a critical flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System was first reported, vendors of some of the most widely used firewall software are scrambling to fix a problem that can essentially undo part of the patches that address this bug.
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A photo that can steal your Facebook account 01/08/2008 14:43:06

At the Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas next week, researchers will demonstrate software they've developed that could steal online credentials from users of popular Web sites such as Facebook, eBay and Google.
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McAfee to buy data protection vendor Reconnex 01/08/2008 10:26:44

Looking to expand its range of data protection products, McAfee said Thursday that it will acquire Reconnex, a maker of data protection appliances and software.

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