Hacking IT gullibility at Defcon Defcon   A hacker competition that challenges contestants to trick employees of large companies into divulging potentially sensitive information aims to show how human gullibility is the biggest security vulnerability of all. During its first day at the Defcon hacker contest in Las Vegas, it had clearly achieved its goal.…

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Social-engineering contest reveals secret BP info

Attacks on rise Warning of an uptick in attacks, Microsoft plans to issue an emergency update to patch a critical Windows vulnerability that hackers are exploiting to seize control of PCs.…

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MS preps emergency patch for Windows shortcut peril

Dust up over supposed evil particles A futurologist has defended his controversial warning that “smart dust” is liable to become a future information stealing threat.…

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Futurologist defends ‘malevolent dust’ warning

What happens in Vegas… Security shortcomings in Black Hat’s newly established streaming media service allowed a security consultant to hack into the system and see presentations for free.…

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Delegate hacks into Black Hat streaming video

Quickest crypto off the mark The UK’s Cyber Security Challenge has announced the winner of its prologue crypto puzzle , as well as the solution – for anyone still struggling to find an answer.… Free On-Demand Webcast – Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

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Cyber Security Challenge winner announced

Watch where you click Online con artists have developed a strain of scareware that poses as a Firefox update.…

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Fake Firefox update used to sling scareware

Watch where you click Online con artists have developed a strain of scareware that poses as a Firefox update.…

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Fake Firefox update used to sling scareware

Expense accounts Starcraft 2 was released this week and at the hefty RRP of £45. Many games sites are hopping mad at this, although typically retailers are selling Blizzard’s strategy game at £10 less than RRP.…

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Beware the blizzard of torrents of Starcraft 2

Expense accounts Starcraft 2 was released this week and at the hefty RRP of £45. Many games sites are hopping mad at this, although typically retailers are selling Blizzard’s strategy game at £10 less than RRP.…

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Beware the blizzard of torrents of Starcraft 2

Forever is a mighty long time Underscoring the permanence of data published on the internet, a security researcher has compiled the names and URLs of more than 100 million Facebook users and made them available as a BitTorrent download.…

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Data for 100m Facebook accounts published to BitTorrent