You gotta love security geeks -- they can make it so easy for you. At least, if you're a black hat hacker.
"It's a critical part of the Ruby infrastructure," the programmer said. "Everything depends on RubyGems."
Jerome Radcliffe scared a lot of people — including himself, since he is a diabetic — when he showed how easy it was to hack an insulin pump from a distance at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
New iPhone 5 images based on leaked design specs — A new set of iPhone 5 device mockups …
Thousands of security professionals, hackers, federal agents and media descended on Las Vegas this week to attend the Black Hat and Defcon conferences. The two conferences exhibit the extremes of hacker and security culture, with federal agents and major corporations …
Steven Levy wrote his first book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, in 1984. At the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas today, he talked about the word “hacker” and its origins amid a crowd of young practitioners of the …
Microsoft’s security used to be a joke. Its operating systems were riddled with bugs that were exploited by hackers and mocked at conferences such as Black Hat, the Las Vegas confab for security technology. But yesterday, one of the independent …
Diabetics beware. It is possible to hack your insulin pump, from a distance, so that it can harm you rather than save your life. Other medical devices are also vulnerable to hacking in the current age of cyber insecurity. As …
A seasoned security hacker who spent seven months figuring out how to hack a laptop battery disclosed his findings today at the Black Hat security conference. Charlie Miller, who specializes in hacking Apple software, figured out how to remotely control …
When Google first started talking about its Google Chrome OS software a few years ago, one of the selling points was the promise that it would come with much better built-in security than other operating systems. Now, Chrome OS has …
Two do-it-yourself hackers have built an unmanned aerial vehicle that they can use to spy on computer networks from above. Created on a lark as an intellectual curiosity, the project shows that it’s not that hard to create a low-cost …
For many years, Apple enjoyed security through obscurity. The market share for Mac computers was so small that malware creators bypassed it to go after the much bigger target, Microsoft Windows. Not anymore.
Apple’s market share has been slowly rising …
Joseph “Cofer” Black, a counter-terrorism expert who anticipated the 9/11 attacks, warned security technology professionals today that they should prepare for cyber war and be prepared for the notion that no one will believe them when they sound the alarm …
Phillipe Courtot, chief executive of Qualys, has been singing the praises of cloud-based security for more than a decade. Now the topic is fashionable and generating a $65 million a year for his company, and Qualys announced some upgrades to …
Black Hat and Defcon have become the must-attend conferences for both computer security professionals and fringe hackers alike. I’ve been attending for a number of years and have always been struck by the stark contrast between the people attending, ranging …
The problem with being private is that it increasingly means that you have to choose to drop out of society. You would never let the government put a tracking device on you, but you may be carrying a cell phone …
The Department of Homeland Security is well aware of the vulnerabilities of cyberspace and has made taming the Wild Wild West of the internet a high priority.
Jane Holl Lute, deputy director of Homeland Security, said in a keynote speech …
