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After a night of drunken madness and impromptu skinny-dipping into the Caesar's Palace pool, Black Hat attendees came back for another day of mentally punishing talks. There were 38 talks spread among five tracks: Application Security, Computer Forensics and Log Analysis, Privacy and Anonymity and Zero Day Defense. A new track was held, Turbo Talks, which comprised a faster paced track during which talks are just twenty minutes long, compared to the usual one- hour-and-fifteen-minute talk length...
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Google Hacking The signature talk of Black Hat was Google Hacking by Johnny Long, the importance of which was reflected by a packed, standing room only auditorium. The massive crowd overflowed into the aisles and hallways. Johnny showed the audience how to push Google searches to the limit. Did you know that Google can help in hacking Web pages and finding vulnerable servers? You just have to know how to define searches with advanced and arcane search operators. One operator allows you to search...
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A presentation on how to be the first to exploit new flaws in Web server software was deemed "just as cool for white hats as for black hats" attending the Defcon 12 conference here over the weekend. The session offered new tools, as well as insight into the mindset of the so-called black hat, or malicious hacker, community, said one enthusiastic attendee, who works for a security consulting company that secures Web servers for the financial sector. The two presenters, German security consultants...
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