http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/073111-blackhat-roundup.html By Ellen Messmer Network World July 31, 2011 Ready to power on next week, the annual Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas promises to be the high-voltage event it has been in the past where security experts tear apart any naïve hope that there's really anything secure at all that was ever made by the high-tech industry. Black Hat 2011 will showcase more than 50 presentations by security researchers in which the most intense will detail vulnerabilities in everything from USB devices, to printers and scanners, to iPhones to Android devices, to hacking Chrome OS and notebooks, to industrial SCADA systems. Details on some of this are already spilling out, such as in the case of Charlie Miller, who in a Fortune article said he has found a way to hack the chips that control the batteries in Apple's MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, letting him ruin them or install persistent malware. There could be a few horror-inducing sessions, too, such as the presentation from iSec Partners researchers Don Bailey and Matthew Solnik, who will provide a few tips on "war texting" to find cars -- yes, automobiles -- and exploit mobile-networking vulnerabilities in them in order to unlock someone else's car and turn the engine on via a laptop. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA 2011, hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada July 30-Aug 4, offering over 60 training sessions and 9 tracks of Briefings from security industry elite. To sign up visit: http://www.blackhat.comReceived on Mon Aug 01 2011 - 02:53:02 PDT
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