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Blackhat

8 articles

Windows Downdate vulnerability: exploitation techniques and countermeasures
  • windows

How to guard against Windows downgrade attacks

Windows Downdate is an attack that can roll back updates to your OS to reintroduce vulnerabilities and allow attackers to take full control of your system. How to mitigate the risk?

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • August 20, 2024

  • def con

8 fun facts about fax. Yes, fax!

Which is older, the phone or the fax? Is it true that no one faxes anymore? And can a fax machine be hacked? (Spoiler: yes)

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • September 4, 2018

  • def con

MitM and DoS attacks on domains through the use of residual certificates

Due to certification centers specifics, it is not rare for other people to hold a valid HTTPS certificate for your domain. What can go wrong?

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • August 29, 2018

  • def con

Man-in-the-Disk: A new and dangerous way to hack Android

How a seemingly harmless Android application can infect your smartphone using shared external storage.

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • August 27, 2018

  • smart cities

Probing the smart city for vulnerabilities

How safe are smart cities?

  • Jeffrey Esposito

  • August 23, 2018

  • def con

Hijacking online accounts through voicemail

When it comes to online accounts, voicemail is a major security hole. Here’s why.

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • August 17, 2018

  • Blackhat

Attacks on enterprise security: Microsoft services as a weapon

Black Hat 2017 demonstrated that Microsoft enterprise solutions could be quite useful in attackers’ hands.

  • Serge Malenkovich

  • August 16, 2017

  • Blackhat

Podcast: Mobile Hacks on Blackhat

Kaspersky Lab’s Brian Donohue explains the latest on mobile hacks on Blackhat [audio Download podcast for offline listening

  • Marvin the Robot

  • August 9, 2013

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