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InternetNews July 21, 2010	Mozilla Patches 14 Firefox Security Flaws Ahead of the annual Black Hat security conference, Mozilla issues its largest patch for the open source Firefox 3.6 browser, fixing 14 security vulnerabilities.
InternetNews July 31, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	NAC Under Attack At Black Hat (Again) Think Network Access Control has gotten any safer since last year? Prepare to be surprised.
InternetNews August 2, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Windows Vista Gets Another Dose of The 'Blue Pill' A Black Hat hacker proves more than just a Blue Pill can stymie Windows Vista.
InternetNews February 18, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Black Hat: Macs Under Attack? A security researcher says a new vulnerability could pose danger to Macs and iPhones. But we're still waiting for the proof.
InternetNews February 19, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Black Hat Descends on Washington Hackers flock to D.C. during this week's Black Hat conference to talk government, security and going on the defense - for a change.
InternetNews March 11, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	HP's New Flash Security Tool Nears Release After hints at Black Hat, SWFscan is on the horizon.
InternetNews August 3, 2010	Tech Firms Split on Paying for Security Flaws Some major IT firms have made it a standard practice to pay security researchers for bringing vulnerabilities to their attention, while others have a strict prohibition against it. What accounts for the divide?
BusinessWeek August 21, 2006 Steve Hamm	Heading Off The Hackers Microsoft pulls out the stops to boost security.
InternetNews July 28, 2005 Tim Gray	No Restraint at Black Hat Cisco and Internet Security Systems jointly filed a restraining order against the management of the Black Hat Conference and a security expert who gave a presentation claiming attackers can compromise Cisco routers.
InternetNews August 3, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Dodging NAC's Silver Bullet Think NAC is the silver bullet of network security? Get ready to be surprised.
InternetNews August 4, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Black Hat Takes Vista to Task Microsoft brings its Windows Vista to the security conference. Attendees put it to the test.
InternetNews August 7, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Black Hat 2006: 'l33t' or 'Lame?' Was the Black Hat security conference a wake-up call for enterprises or just a snoozer?
InternetNews August 1, 2005 Jim Wagner	Cisco Patches Amidst Uproar The company fixes the software, but its methods to silence the vulnerability before the patch was released has raised eyebrows.
InternetNews August 4, 2009	Mozilla Patches Firefox for Black Hat Flaws Firefox 3.5.2 and 3.0.13 fix issues new and old in the open source browser.
InternetNews July 30, 2009	Black Hat: Microsoft's Killbit Under the Microscope Researchers roll out a killbit analyzer and take some shots at the software giant, but Microsoft's not worried.
InternetNews January 10, 2008 Andy Patrizio	New Rootkit Targets the Drive's MBR The bad guys got the idea from Black Hat and a security firm, illustrating the risks of bringing vulnerabilities to light.
InternetNews July 31, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Mozilla Updates Firefox Ahead Of Black Hat Mozilla has patched a pair of security vulnerabilities in its Firefox Web browser just in time for its release of security tools at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this week.
InternetNews March 15, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Mozilla Security: More Than Meets The 'Aye' If open source by definition means that code is open, then why is Mozilla having some of its code discussions behind closed doors? Mozilla responds to accusations that its security process isn't open.
InternetNews July 30, 2010	Aruba Taps Cloud to Secure Black Hat Wi-Fi Networking vendor Aruba goes mesh to secure the Black Hat wireless network, pitting its cloud-based security service against a notoriously hostile crowd.
InternetNews August 1, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	NSA Honcho Advocates Security Collaboration A National Security Agency official talks what his agency is doing to secure the nation.
InternetNews March 31, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Open Source Old Timers Take Linux Measure Early players in the development of Linux found themselves taking stock of the open source movement during a Red Hat event -- and how far it has to go.
InternetNews July 30, 2010	Researcher Warns of IE Auto-Complete Flaw At the Black Hat security conference, Whitehat Security CTO Jeremiah Grossman describes a browser flaw that could allow hackers to capture entries stored in Web forms.
InternetNews September 22, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Interop: 'Get The House in Order' Attendees at at Interop NY take up the challenge issued by Juniper CEO to stop accepting bogus claims about what products can do.
InternetNews August 1, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Iron Chef Black Hat Taking security vulnerability discovery from pressure cooker to gourmet sport.
InternetNews August 2, 2010	Google Hacking for Enterprise Security: Black Hat At the Black Hat security conference, researchers describe their work expanding on the technique known as Google hacking to leverage the search engine to improve enterprise security.
CRM October 1, 2005 Marshall Lager	The Hot Skinny on Hackers What do they know, and how do they find out? A recent "hackers convention" revealed some of their secrets.
InternetNews July 29, 2010	Microsoft Brings an Olive Branch to Black Hat Microsoft preaches a message of cooperation with the research community at the annual Black Hat security conference, announcing details of new collaborations.
InternetNews October 3, 2006 Roy Mark	Cyber Criminals Turn to Home Users Phishing and spam are on a dramatic rise as home users become the prime targets of online criminals. Attacks are up 81 percent over the last six months and spam jumped 50 percent over the same period.
InternetNews February 8, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Mozilla Update Quashes Slew of Firefox Flaws Ten fixes in Firefox 2.0.0.12 improve security, addressing cross-site scripting and other vulnerabilities.
InternetNews April 27, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Learning From Mozilla Security Mozilla's "human shield" spends a lot of time securing Firefox - and he's got a few ideas on how you can secure your own software.
InternetNews March 23, 2005 Jim Wagner	Firefox Update Patches Three in Time An update to the Web browser to version 1.0.2 fixes three known vulnerabilities before they could be exploited.
InternetNews January 19, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Ofir Arkin, CTO, Insightix The man who found holes in some approaches to Network Access Control (NAC) still has a few more tricks up his sleeve.
InternetNews February 23, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	The Not-Infallible Cisco 802.1x Cisco issues security alert for its 802.1x endpoint software.
InternetNews March 31, 2005 Jim Wagner	Mozilla Community Cashing in on Bug Bounties The open source organization has handed out $6,000 to people who have discovered security flaws in Mozilla products.
InternetNews January 11, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Money For Vista, IE Bugs VeriSign's iDefense Labs has kicked off its Vulnerability Contributor Program, a challenge to find remote arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in Vista and Internet Explorer 7.0. VCP will pay $8,000 for the first six confirmed vulnerabilities.
InternetNews March 19, 2010	Google Fixes Its Browser Before Hacker Test Google patches Chrome for eight vulnerabilities that could have left users at risk. The fixes come just as white hat hackers are set to go to town in a vulnerability search contest.
InternetNews July 29, 2010	Security Expert Details SAP Back Door Exploit SAP's software is an indispensable part of many enterprise's IT operations, but at the Black Hat security conference, a researcher warns that it is all-too-vulnerable to back-door attacks.
InternetNews August 3, 2006 Andy Patrizio	Vista Security Mostly Invisible But Thorough What you can't see in Vista is designed to keep malware from hurting you.
InternetNews May 12, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Mozilla Rushes Fixes; Microsoft Doesn't Gloat Mozilla 1.7.8 and FireFox 1.0.4 issue fixes to to patch vulnerabilities that could have allowed malicious users to execute arbitrary code. Internet Explorer's product head states that browser security is an industry problem.
InternetNews July 28, 2009	Securing Wi-Fi for Hackers Is the Black Hat network a hostile network? Wireless vendor Aruba isn't so sure.
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InternetNews September 21, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Mozilla Under Fire As allegations of malicious code and heightened insecurity swirl around, Mozilla has updated its Firefox Web browser in what is being termed a security and stability release.
InternetNews September 30, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Red Hat Takes Netscape Enterprise Red Hat will acquire parts of the Netscape Enterprise solution from AOL and has announced a stock repurchase plan that will see the company buying back up to $100 million of its securities.
InternetNews November 9, 2009	Firefox Tops Vulnerability List New study places Firefox at the top of vulnerability list for for the first half of 2009.
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