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Black Hat Microcast 7 ? Joshua Abraham

At times, the features used to help secure browsers and keep communications private are less effective than users think — and may even be a detriment to privacy. Joshua “Jabra” Abraham and Robert “RSnake” Hansen, in their talk “Unmasking You”, used techniques to yield some juicy tidbits about a target’s browsing habits, installed software, and more. [...]

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Black Hat Microcast 6 ? James Arlen

While many talks at BlackHat focus on security from a technical standpoint, James Arlen and Tiffany Rad presented on something a bit different — securing yourself. The talk, entitled “Your Mind – Legal Status, Rights and Securing Yourself”, focused on current and future legal, privacy, and data ownership issues that affect just about all of [...]

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Snake Oil Salesman

In cryptography, we’ve long used the term “snake oil” to refer to crypto systems with good marketing hype and little actual security. It’s the phrase I generalized into “security theater.”

Well, it turns out that there really is a snake oil salesman.

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Black Hat Reveals iPhone SMS Vulnerability (PC World)

Analysis: Guard your shiny devices, iPhone lovers — iPhones and other smartphones are vulnerable to malformed SMS text messages.

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