Announcing Contest Winners for Ghost in the Wires Book

Announcing Contest Winners for Ghost in the Wires Book We ran a competition for the book "Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick " last week. We'd like to thank the following people for sending in the best of the best of reviews about Kevin Mitnick's new book, "Ghosts in the Wires." All the reviews ...

[Contest] Win "Ghost in the Wires" Book by Kevin Mitnick

Contest Win "Ghost in the Wires " Book by Kevin Mitnick Some call him a saint, some a criminal, others adore him. Industry may loathe him but we here at The Hacker News say, "Get ready, loyal subscribers! " Enter our newest contest and win a copy of Kevin Mitnick's new book titled, "Ghost in the...

[Contest] Win "Ghost in the Wires" Book by Kevin Mitnick

Contest Win "Ghost in the Wires" Book by Kevin Mitnick Some call him a saint, some a criminal, others adore him. Industry may loathe him but we here at The Hacker News say, "Get ready, loyal subscribers!" Enter our newest contest and win a copy of Kevin Mitnick's new book titled, "Ghost in the...

Contest Winners Announcement : Wireless Penetration Testing Guide book

Contest Winners Announcement : Wireless Penetration Testing Guide book We ran a competition for the book "Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing " last week. Today, Vivek Ramachandran, the author of the book and Founder of SecurityTube.net is announcing the winners in the video below. We will b...

Win Free Copies of BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Guide with The Hacker News

Win Free Copies of BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Guide with The Hacker News Fellow hackers would be very pleased to know that to celebrate the release of their new book- BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing is giving away 2 copies of the book to T...

Katie Moussouris on the Microsoft Blue Hat Prize

Dennis Fisher talks with Katie Moussouris of Microsoft about the company’s new Blue Hat Prize for innovative defensive security technology, why Microsoft didn’t start a bug bounty program and whether this will become an annual contest. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

DEFCON Round Up: The Good, The Bad and The Underage

DEFCON, the cash-only, aliases-welcome hacker conference took place in the moral vacuum of Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend, as it has every Summer since 1993. This year there was no shortage of controversial presentations and panel discussions. If you were short the airfare, the $150 entrance fee,...

Microsoft BlueHat Security contest - Mega Prize $250,000

Microsoft BlueHat Security contest - Mega Prize $250,000 Microsoft today launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits. The total cash awards for Microsoft's "BlueHat Prize " contest easily dwarfs any bug bounty...

Microsoft BlueHat Security contest - Mega Prize $250,000

Microsoft BlueHat Security contest - Mega Prize $250,000 Microsoft today launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits. The total cash awards for Microsoft's "BlueHat Prize" contest easily dwarfs any bug bounty...

Microsoft Ships 16 Fixes in June's Patch Tuesday

Microsoft patched nine critical vulnerabilities and seven important vulnerabilities, pushing out a total of 16 patches in the June edition of Patch Tuesday. One of the bugs patched was used to compromise Internet Explorer during the Pwn2Own contest this year. Four of the critical vulnerabilities...

Hackers Exploit BlackBerry Browser Bug !

Research in Motion has found a security flaw and recommended that user disable JavaScript in browsers on certain phones, threatening the BlackBerry maker's iron-clad reputation for security. "The issue could result in remote code execution on affected BlackBerry smartphones," the Waterloo,...

iPhone, BlackBerry Fall on Second Day of Pwn2Own

VANCOUVER–For the fourth consecutive year, researcher Charlie Miller won one of the prizes at the annual Pwn2Own contest here. The difference this time is that Miller successfully exploited an iPhone 4 to win, rather than Safari, which he’s gone after the last three years. The BlackBerry Torch 98...

Stephen Fewer won Pwn2Own !

Stephen Fewer won Pwn2Own ! The annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest conference kicked off Wednesday and one of the winners this year was Stephen Fewer, who exploited Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. Dennis Fisher spoke with him about the contest, the challenge of attacking IE 8 and the...

Pwn2Own Winner Stephen Fewer

The annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest conference kicked off Wednesday and one of the winners this year was Stephen Fewer, who exploited Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. Dennis Fisher spoke with him about the contest, the challenge of attacking IE 8 and the utility of memory protections...

Why Pwn2Own Is What's Right With Security

VANCOUVER — When the Pwn2Own contest began in 2007, it was dismissed by some in the industry as nothing more than a publicity stunt meant to inflate the egos of researchers while embarrassing software vendors. But as the fifth edition of the hacker challenge gets underway at the CanSecWest...

Hacker kills his own Pwn2Own bug for Android phones !

A vulnerability that a researcher planned to use to compromise an Android cellphone at a hacking contest later this week got squashed after Google fixed the underlying bug in the Android Market. Scio Security CTO Jon Oberheide notified Google of the XSS, or cross-site scripting, bug in the...

Microsoft Releases Zero IE8 Security Updates Before "Pwn2Own" !

Microsoft has opted not to release any patches to its Internet Explorer 8 browser prior to this year's Pwn2Own browser exploit challenge, which is set to run from March 9 to March 11 at the CanSecWest security conference. There's been no indication as to why Microsoft's not making one last effort...

Google & Mozilla Patches Browsers Before Pwn2Own Hacker Contest !

Now that the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest is around the corner, both Google and Mozilla are busy patching flaws in their respective browsers to appear competent in the contest. Both internet giants have reportedly updated their browsers for the contest that is due to take place next week at the...

Google Bets $20k Against the Field at 2011 Pwn2Own

Google has announced plans to pay $20,000 to anyone who can successfully exploit a vulnerability in their Chrome browser and infiltrate a Cr-48 Chrome Notebook. Google’ is offering the cash prize as part of Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2POwn contest which will be taking place March 9-11 during the 20...

Facebook Announces Hacker's Cup

Social networking Web site Facebook has announced that they will begin accepting registrations for the 2011 Hacker Cup, the first annual programming and puzzle solving contest open to software engineers, programmers, puzzle solvers and assorted hackers from around the world.Facebook said this wee...