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Black Hat and Def Con: Direct From Las Vegas
I’ve just got back from the largest annual gatherings of computer security experts and hackers in the world. Running one after the other in Las Vegas are the Black Hat and Def Con conventions. Black...
View ArticleBlack Hat: Exploit Farming
My alma mater, Cambridge University, has made significant contributions to military intelligence over the years. Cambridge graduate Alan Turing helped to break the Enigma code, and during and after...
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SMS Sex Spammer Fails Turing Test
Sometimes I love my job. How cool is it to run a Turing Test for real? But first, the back story… For a while now we’ve been receiving SMS spam reports for a three stage attack. This starts with an SMS...
View ArticleBlack Hat 2014: Why I Hate Free Stuff
I was watching an excellent presentation by Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar when I realized that I hate free stuff. Not of course the free stuff that I use, I’m fine with that. It’s all the free stuff that...
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The Cost of Beating Automated Turing Tests
Most social networks and other free Internet services have some sort of verification in their sign up process to make sure that a real person is signing up, and not a bot. Spammers and other cyber...
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