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Security news doesn't always wait for conference season. That's the guiding principle behind the Black Hat Webcasts – a regular series of live web events focusing on what's hot in the infosec space all year long. On the third Thursday of every month, we'll bring together Black Hat speakers, independent researchers and leading security experts from the government to the underground to answer your questions live.

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Black Hat Webcast 10: Mobility and Security

Overview: We're trying out a new format for the May 21 webcast on Mobility and Security. We're going to bring in some researchers and some industry folks and have a round-table discussion on the current state and future direction of securing the mobile devices we all can't live without. The idea behind this new style of presentation is to increase the amount of interactivity, both with the guests and the audience, so please join us and bring your ideas and questions. Alex Stamos, Founding Partne...

May 21, 2009•1 hr 12 min

Black Hat Webcast 9: Europe 2009 Sneak Peek

Overview: Black Hat Europe is right around the corner - we'll be returning to Amsterdam April 14-17. We're very excited about the lineup of speakers we've put together, and this webcast will be a sort of sneak preview of what kind of presentations attendees will get to see at the live event. Webcast speakers include: Enno Rey and Daniel Mende All Your Packets Are Belong to Us - Attacking Backbone Technologies Charlie Miller and Vincenzo Iozzo Fun and Games Using In-Memory Execution on Mac OS X a...

Mar 25, 2009•1 hr 20 min

Black Hat Webcast 8: Rich Internet Application Security

Rich Internet Application (RIA) frameworks are seeing an enormous growth in popularity - technologies like Ajax and Flash create nearly unlimited opportunities to expand and improve the web user experience. They also bring with them a host of new security risks. The popularity of these frameworks among application developers insures that we'll see more attacks and issues in the months and years ahead. Join Black Hat Founder and Director Jeff Moss and his guests Billy Hoffman of HP and Alex Stamo...

Mar 10, 2009•1 hr 35 min

Black Hat Webcast 7: Mac OS X Security

Overview: Our seventh installment of the Black Hat Webcast Series arrives next week with an in-depth and fascinating look into the world of Mac Security. As the Mac platform grows in popularity both with the general public and the enterprise, we’ve seen an increase both in attacks and reasearcher interest in the topic of OS X Security. Black Hat Speaker Jesse D’Aguanno will be presenting on the topic of "Crafting OS X Kernel Rootkits – Fundamentals." We’ll also have a presentation by Tiller Beau...

Jan 24, 2009•1 hr 22 min

Black Hat Webcast 6: Database Forensics with David Litchfield

Database Forensics expert David Litchfield will discuss his new tool and paper with Black Hat Founder and Director Jeff Moss and take questions from our webcast audience. The tool, orablock, allows a forensic investigator to dump data from a "cold" Oracle data file - i.e. there's no need to load up the data file in the database which would cause the data file to be modified, so using orablock preserves the evidence. Orablock can also be used to locate "stale" data - i.e. data that has been delet...

Dec 23, 2008•1 hr 21 min

Black Hat Webcast 5: Clickjacking and Browser Security

"Clickjacking" is all over the news lately. For the uninitiated, it's a set of techniques discovered by Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen that allows an attacker to transparently capture a user's clicks, forcing the user to do all manner of unpleasant things ranging from adjusting security settings to unwittingly visiting websites with malicious code.

Dec 19, 2008•1 hr 25 min

Black Hat Webcast 3: How to Impress Girls with Browser Memory Protection Bypasses

Over the past several years, Microsoft has implemented a number of memory protection mechanisms with the goal of preventing the reliable exploitation of common software vulnerabilities on the Windows platform. Protection mechanisms such as GS, SafeSEH, DEP and ASLR complicate the exploitation of many memory corruption vulnerabilities and at first sight present an insurmountable obstacle for exploit developers. This talk aims to present exploitation methodologies against this increasingly complex...

Dec 19, 2008•58 min

Black Hat Webcast 4: Trust Doesn't Scale: Practical Hijacking On the World's Largest Network

Our monthly free webcast series rolls on with another talk about a major vulnerability. This webcast is entitled "Trust Doesn't Scale: Practical Hijacking On the World's Largest Network." The webcast is based on a remarkable presentation by Tony Kapela and Alexander Pilosov at the DEFCON security conference this August. To illustrate their BGP-based traffic-hijacking techniques, they intercepted all traffic from the notoriously hostile conference network and ran it through their servers. The pro...

Dec 19, 2008•1 hr 42 min

Black Hat Webcast 2: Dan Kaminsky's DNS Discovery: The Massive, Multi-Vendor Issue and the Massive, Multi-Vendor Fix

Early in 2008, security researcher Dan Kaminsky located a gaping hole the basic underpinnings of the internet. This fundamental flaw in DNS security renders almost all DNS serves open to cache poisoning (US CERT VU#800113). As the vulnerability arises from flaws in the design of the DNS protocol, the issue affects nearly all vendors and nearly all products designed to work with DNS. In the intervening time, Dan has worked with a coalition of vendors to create a fix for this very serious and ubiq...

Dec 19, 2008•57 min

Black Hat Webcast 1: The Forbidden Sneak Peek: Black Hat USA 2008

During this inaugural webcast, Jeff Moss provided an overview of prevailing security trends and technologies and was joined by several of the world’s leading security minds who will each provide a brief preview of the topics they presented at the Black Hat Briefings & Trainings in August 2008. The presenters were: Bruce Potter with Malware Detection Through Flow Analysis Fyodor Vaskovich with Nmap - Scanning the Internet Shawn Moyer and Nathan Hamiel with Satan is on My Friends List: Attacki...

Dec 19, 2008•1 hr 31 min

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