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

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Re:Why is it even called "Blackhat"? by blahblahwoofwoof · · Score: 5, Informative

    At this point, it's just branding. There was a time when Black Hat was correctly titled, but that train has long since left the station.