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• Microsoft offers big anti-hacking prize

  By AAP | 04 August, 2011 09:10

  Microsoft has kicked off a contest aimed at turning the tables on hackers by offering big money prizes for innovative tactics to foil cyber attacks.

• 'War texting' lets hackers unlock car doors via SMS

  By Robert McMillan | 28 July, 2011 03:43

  Software that lets drivers unlock car doors and even start their vehicles using a mobile phone could let car thieves do the very same things, according to computer security researchers at iSec Partners.

• Security conference dives into SAP coding problems

  By Jeremy Kirk | 11 March, 2011 23:19

  The Black Hat Europe conference in Barcelona next week will feature a keynote on cyberwar from Bruce Schneier, and presentations on security flaws in Apple's Mac OS X and SAP's business software.

• ATM hack gives cash on demand

  By Robert McMillan | 29 July, 2010 07:34

  Barnaby Jack hit the jackpot at Black Hat on Wednesday. Twice.

• New 'Kraken' GSM-cracking software is released

  By Robert McMillan | 22 July, 2010 12:18

  The GSM technology used by the majority of the world's mobile phones will get some scrutiny at next week's Black Hat security conference, and what the security researchers there have to say isn't pretty.

• Black Hat talk to reveal analysis of hacker fingerprints

  By Tim Greene | 20 July, 2010 02:34

  Looking deeper within malware yields fingerprints of the hackers who write the code, and that could result in signatures that have a longer lifetime than current intrusion-detection schemes, Black Hat 2010 attendees will be told next week.

• Researchers: Password crack could affect millions

  By Robert McMillan | 16 July, 2010 08:16

  A well-known cryptographic attack could be used by hackers to log into Web applications used by millions of users, according to two security experts who plan to discuss the issue at an upcoming security conference.

• Hacker develops multi-platform rootkit for ATMs

  By Robert McMillan | 06 May, 2010 11:08

  One year after his Black Hat talk on Automated Teller Machine security vulnerabilities was yanked by his employer, security researcher Barnaby Jack plans to deliver the talk and disclose a new ATM rootkit at the computer security conference.