Black Hat 2008: Google Gadgets insecurity

August 9, 2008 By 2 Comments


Black Hat presenters [Robert "RSnake" Hansen], CEO of SecTheory, and [Tom Stracener], security analyst at Cenzic, criticized Google in their presentation “Xploiting Google Gadgets”. [Hansen] and [Stracener] say that there’s currently no way for Google to confirm whether Google Gadget creations contain malicious content or not; this leaves the application vulnerable to a wide range of hacking ugliness … Read the rest

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Black Hat 2008: Dan Kaminsky releases DNS information

August 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment


[Dan Kaminsky]‘s much anticipated talk on his DNS findings finally happened at Black Hat 2008 in Las Vegas today. [Dan] has already uploaded the complete slides from his talk as well as posted a short summary to his site. New information in the slides since our previous coverage includes “Forgot My Password” attacks and new attacks on internal network vulnerabilities … Read the rest

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