Replicating NSA’s gadgets using open source
One peek at the leaked pages of NSA’s ANT catalog made wireless security researcher Michael Ossmann’s mind start spinning. “Could we – could I – …
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Defeating UEFI’s SecureBoot
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is ment to replace the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware interface found on all IBM PC-compatible personal computers. …
Improving training programs in cyber security
In this podcast, recorded at Hack In The Box Amsterdam 2014, Lisha Sterling, Developer Coordinator at Geeks Without Bounds, talks about the problems in cybersecurity …
What inspired you to start hacking?
This is a question that Jennifer Steffens, IOActive CEO, often asks hackers she meets on conferences around the world. More often than not, the answer is movies: War Games, …
Walking through Hack In The Box 2014 Amsterdam
This year’s Hack In The Box conference is being held at the De Beurs van Berlage, which is an impressive venue located in central Amsterdam. The organization, the …
Hacking for the greater good
As long as people write code, they will write code with flaws, says Katie Moussouris, former Senior Security Strategist Lead at Microsoft Security Response Center and, as of …
Sogeti social engineering challenge at HITB Haxpo
For the third year in a row Sogeti organizes the social engineering challenge during Hack In The Box Amsterdam. In 2012 and 2013 they asked contestants to show weaknesses in …
What do a hacker expo and cutting-edge research have in common? Amsterdam!
Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran is the Founder and CEO of Hack in The Box, and in this interview he introduces HITBSecConf Amsterdam and offers insight on what attendees can expect …
Google offers five grants to women in security to attend HITB2014AMS
As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, Google is offering five grants to women in security to attend the Hack In …
Tracking botnets using automatically generated domains
Stefano Zanero is an Assistant Professor at Politechnico di Milano, where he focuses on systems security. Modern botnets rely on domain-generation algorithms (DGAs) to build …
Bypassing security scanners by changing the system language
A substantial security oversight is present in a variety of penetration testing tools, and it has to do with the different languages that a computer system can be set up to …
How to social engineer a social network
Social engineering has for a while now been cyber attackers’ best bet to enter systems and compromise accounts when actual hacking doesn’t work, or when they …