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Black Hat roundup

In one of the more exciting Black Hat conferences in recent memory, researchers revealed holes in everything from SSL to Microsoft software to the iPhone's SMS.

By Jeff Caruso on Thu, 07/30/09 - 2:52pm.

In one of the more exciting Black Hat conferences in recent memory, researchers revealed holes in everything from SSL to Microsoft software to the iPhone's SMS. Here are some of the best stories from the conference:
More holes found in SSL
The truth about new SSL attacks
New features can open up Cisco IOS to hackers
HP researchers say browser-based 'Veiled' makes darknets a snap
Mystery solved: MS emergency patch precedes Black Hat session
iPhone SMS attack unleashed at Black Hat
New tool helps reconstruct attacks that don't leave traces on hard drives
Low-tech Internet scams net big money
Former Google VP suggests user-based security
Black Hat's most notorious incidents

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These so-called professionals are nothing but a bunch of self-important trolls who prey upon the feeble. Demonstrating their hacking prowess each attempts to out-geek the next guy with projections of cataclysmic destruction and mayhem. Of course, only they have the means of averting disaster...if and only if you purchase their products and services. These are people who are wholly unemployable in any traditional business but who find money and interest among the government sectors in all their bureaucratic ignorance and publishers who are grasping for readers.

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Jeff Caruso is Executive Online Editor at Network World.