Ask Slashdot: Favorite Thing Out of This Year's Black Hat?

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 1, 2013 @11:57AM from the best-of-the-best dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "This year's Black Hat conference wasn't just about the NSA director defending his agency's surveillance practices (and getting a bit heckled in the process). Other topics included hacking iOS devices via a modified charging station, eavesdropping on smartphones via compromised femtocells, demonstrating a password-security testing tools that leverage AWS (and 9TB of rainbow tables) to crush weak passwords, and compromising RFID tags with impunity. What was your favorite news out of Black Hat?"

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Re:First credible way to detect real 0day on your by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-01 12:21 · Score: 2, Interesting

HTTP server on non-standard port with (probably) proprietary freeware that requires IE to work. Sounds genuine to me!
SSL, gone in 30 seconds by dsinc · 2013-08-01 23:50 · Score: 4, Interesting

http://breachattack.com/