Facebook Chartity (TAG) - SQL Injection Vulnerability

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Facebook Chartity (TAG) - SQL Injection Vulnerability

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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 ...

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 w...

[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

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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

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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

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Stephen Fewer won Pwn2Own !

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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...