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Black Hat security conference offers two-day Macsploitation class

by Steven Sande (Mar 8th, 2011)

Attention would-be Mac hackers and those hoping to write viruses and malware for Mac OS X! You can bone up on your Macsploitation skills at an upcoming two-day class to be held at the Black Hat security conference July 30 through August 2. This isn't the first time that Black Hat has featured ...

Why Apple's "walled garden" is a good idea

by Steven Sande (Jul 29th, 2010)

Many developers and users of Apple's iOS devices bemoan the "walled garden" of the App Store approval process, but it appears that the company's measures have prevented mass data theft from iPhones, and iPads. At the Black Hat security conference being held in Las Vegas this week, mobile security ...

Security researchers to unveil iPhone SMS vulnerability later today

by Joachim Bean (Jul 30th, 2009)

Two security researchers, Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner, have discovered a serious security vulnerability affecting SMS messaging on the iPhone that will be unveiled later today at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. This flaw affects all iPhones and can allow an attacker to gain ...

Editorial: Behind the MacBook "Hack"

by Dan Lurie (Aug 4th, 2006)

The web has been on fire the past few days with news of a presentation given at the BlackHat computer security conference featuring the compromising a MacBook Pro by executing very low-level code on the drivers of a wireless card. Whether or not the exploit presented actually counts as hacking of a ...

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