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Researchers: Square Card Reader Provides Straight Line to Illicit Cash?

Security researchers at the Black Hat Briefings demonstrated a method for turning purloined credit card information into cash, this time using Square, a free credit card reader that promises to turn...

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OPINION: Are Anonymous Members Forged in the Crucible of IT Compliance?

By B.K. DeLongWith alleged Anonymous leadership such as Sabu and opponents such as th3j35t3r tweeting about their supposed shenanigans in Las Vegas, the question on everyone's mind this week is whether...

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DEFCON Round Up: The Good, The Bad and The Underage

DEFCON, the cash-only, aliases-welcome hacker conference took place in the moral vacuum of Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend, as it has every Summer since 1993. This year there was no shortage of...

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Five Questions About Aaron Barr’s DEFCON (by Aaron Barr)

Editor's note: Finding Aaron Barr at this year's DEFCON hacker conference in Las Vegas was like a giant game of "Where's Waldo." Given the events of the past year, you can hardly blame him for keeping...

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Insulin Pump Hack Garners Federal Attention

The hack of a commercially available insulin pump earlier this month at the DEFCON hacker conference has attracted the attention of members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, which is now...

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Rethinking DEFCON

By Rob LemosFor nearly two decades, the DEFCON hacking conference has brought together people with an interest in investigating technology and cracking security. In recent years, however, DEFCON has...

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Fortune 500 Gets “F” In Social Engineering Hacking Test

It was another year, another "F" for the top, U.S. firms targeted in the annual Social Engineering Capture the Flag (CTF) Contest at the DEFCON hacking conference, according to a report released on...

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Forget ‘Brogrammers,’ Women Have The Edge In DEFCON Social Engineering Contest

Men may dominate the ranks of vulnerability researchers and hackers. But could women be the superior social engineers? Its a question that the organizers of the annual Social Engineering Capture the...

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DEFCON Kids Returns, Now With 0-Day

DEFCON is inviting the kids back again this year for the second edition of DEFCON Kids, and this time, there's zero-days involved.read more

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Firms Need ‘Tough Love’ In Struggle Against APTs

Black Hat is upon us and, with it, a lot of chatter about the dangers posed by so-called "APT," or advanced persistent threats. Rather than get trapped in the hype bubble, Threatpost editor Paul...

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