http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9175298/Hacker_conference_to_address_emerging_Web_threats?taxonomyId=17 By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service April 9, 2010 The Black Hat conference will kick off this week in Barcelona with training sessions and briefings from some of the most talented security researchers in the industry. Facebook's chief security officer, Max Kelly, is scheduled for a keynote presentation on Wednesday following two days of training sessions. The last two days of the conference will focus on briefings featuring research into a variety of threats on the Internet and application vulnerabilities. One of those presentations will focus on a way to insert a backdoor into SAP's ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications. SAP's business software is often the core of a company's operations and is used to manage invoicing, human resources, procurement and billing, among many other functions. SAP's software uses databases from companies such as Oracle, said Mariano Nuez Di Croce, director of research and development for Onapsis, a company that focuses on penetration testing for SAP systems and others such as Oracle's PeopleSoft and JD Edwards enterprise applications. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Mon Apr 12 2010 - 22:10:10 PDT
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