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One of the papers presented at the Black Hat USA 2008 security conference was an analysis a number of the protection mechanisms built into Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that are designed to make it harder to convert software bugs into security flaws. How to Impress Girls with Browser Memory Protection Bypasses, authored by security researchers Mark Dowd at IBM and Alexander Sotirov at VMware, presented a number of attacks against Vista's various security features in isolation, and then attacks that could disable multiple protections all together. Put together, the result is that Vista's mitigation mechanisms are circumvented, making buggy software exploitable. Complete story at Ars Technica
One of the more interesting demonstrations at Black Hat this year was Johanna Rutkowska's discovery of a flaw in the BIOS of certain Intel motherboards that could be used to "bluepill" the Xen hypervisor. Complete story at Ars Technica
On the opening day of the BlackHat 2008 conference, Symantec did an anonymous survey of the attendees to discover exactly what they thought would be the hot security topics in the upcoming year. Complete story at Blogcritics
The size and scope of security problems is growing to be so large that security experts are having more difficulty than ever protecting end users from emerging threats. That was evident in the Black Hat Briefings security conference that opened Wednesday. Complete story at PC World
Security researchers say they have discovered an enormous flaw that could let hackers steer most people using corporate computer networks to malicious Web sites of their own devising. Complete story at Seattle Times
Black Hat USA 2009
July 25-30
Caesars Palace
Las Vegas, NV
Training July 25-28
Briefings July 29-30
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Find out about our 2009 venue, Caesars Palace.
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