Black Hat Talks Taking Hacking to Another Level

The world moves fast, but much of the world of vulnerability research and exploitation has been stuck in stasis for the last few years. Much of the focus has been on memory-corruption vulnerabilities, application-level bugs and using Java and Flash to get around exploit mitigations and other...

October, 2006: 9.6 million Sony batteries recalled after reports of overheating

This was just the first in what would prove to be a string of embarrassments to the Japanese firm over the manufacture of laptop batteries. It began with reports in both Japan and the U.S. about Sony-manufactured lithium ion batteries that were overheating and, in some cases, bursting into flames...