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Defcon organizers mishandled outing of NBC reporter

Black Hat, supersize edition

This year's Black Hat conference...

JRE flaw: How bad is it?

I've seen several reports since Friday regarding the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) flaws Sun Microsystems recently patched. In one report, security expert Chris Gatford from penetration testing vendor Pure Hacking said...

EMC, Cisco and Microsoft form security alliance

One of the more interesting press releases to catch my attention this morning is from Cisco, EMC and Microsoft. The IT giants have formed

Harry Potter and the Hokey Hacker

We've seen zero days in Windows, Mac OS X, various Linux distributions and even BlackBerrys. Now comes the first zero day in a book. (Actually, it's more like grand larceny, but that doesn't sound as scary.) A post on the Full Disclosure mailing list Tuesday revealed what the author claims are the...

Cybersecurity hearing set on DHS weaknesses

We'll be keeping an eye on the House Homeland Security Committee today. Its subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity and Science and Technology is holding a hearing to identify the failures of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to secure its information networks. Scott Charbo, CIO of...

Symantec unveils Norton AntiBot beta

While the financial analysts and customers are trying to figure out Symantec's future direction, the company's engineers have stayed busy building new products. Next week at its Vision customer conference, the company will be talking about its forthcoming all-in-one security suite, code-named...

Gartner confab looks to Security 3.0

Today is the first full day of Gartner's annual IT Security Summit in Washington D.C., and the first order of business is the morning slate of keynotes. First up was Gartner analyst John Pescatore. Pescatore talked...

Podcast: Penetration testing

In this week's Security Wire Weekly podcast, SearchSecurity.com's Bill Brenner had a great interview with Core Security's Ivan Arce about the...