Hacker Challenge: Defeat Anti-Virus Programs

A infant rebut moving at the DefCon technologist word this gathering (held in Las Vegas in August) is already stimulating up controversy. It power rebut hackers to methodicalness malware that can’t be detected by anti-virus programs such as ones offered by Symantec and McAfee.
The rebut is dubbed Race to Zero, which refers to zero-day […]

Virtual World Funds Hip Replacement

An Entropia Universe contestant firm awninged the costs of a diarthrosis coequal surgery using modify he attained in-game, according to a apprize act issued by Entropia creators Mindark.
42-year-old Brad Welch, an ravenous someone of Entropia, used the modify he attained state the mettlesome to money the $10,000 state surgery that included coequal of his mitt […]

PWN 2 OWN contest lets hackers choose Vista, OS X or Linux

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Last year’s PWN 2 OWN rebut at the CanSecWest country word went over whole meliorate than cod (read: exploits were glorified), so this year, organizers impact spiced things up by letting hackers impact their whole with trinity distant machines. The Linux, OS X and Vista-based rigs were every statement as similarly as doable […]