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Abusing JSONP with Rosetta Flash
Submitted by l33tdawg on Sat, 2014-07-12 09:09
L33tdawg: Early bird registration rates for #HITB2014KUL ends on the 1st of August... What are you waiting for?
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Threat Intelligence to run pioneering training course at #HITB2014KUL
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-07-03 00:54
Threat Intelligence, an Australian security consultancy specialising in the next era of intelligence-based threat management and penetration testing, today announced that it has been selected to run its cutting-edge “Practical Threat Intelligence” course at the prestigious Hack In The Box Security Conference (“HITBSecConf”) in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, October 13 – 16 October 2014.
Botnets coming soon to a smart home or automated building near you
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-06-05 13:44
At Hack in the Box (HITB) security conference in Amsterdam, Steffen Wendzel, head of Fraunhofer FKIE, presented "Alice's Adventures in Smart Building Land – Novel Adventures in a Cyber Physical Environment"(pdf). This wasn't "just" weaponizing your coffee pot. Brace yourself because Wendzel warned that a new class of botnet is coming. In fact, smart building botnets won’t be used for boring things like denial-of-service attacks or even refrigerators sending spam.
Orbotix to give hackers and researchers robotics crash course at HITB #Haxpo
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-05-07 18:21
L33tdawg: Don't forget to sign up for a chance to win your own Sphero when you visit HITB Haxpo! http://sphe.ro/mpeyo
Orbotix will be at HITB Haxpo at the end of May to give engineers, researchers and hackers a crash course on how they can help inspire the next generation of kids using robotics. In addition there'll be daily giveaways on social media and also prizes for HackWEEKDAY developers!
Come to HITB #Haxpo and Get Taught How to Solder by Mitch Altman
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-05-06 05:59
In Amsterdam at the end of May? Here's a rare chance to meet with the world famous Mitch Altman of TV-B-Gone fame and learn how to solder from the man himself!
Mitch is a hacker and inventor, most well known for inventing TV-B-Gone, he’s been a speaker at numerous hacker conferences, is an international expert on the hackerspace movement and teaches introductory electronics workshops.