Black Hat roundup: Let the electric-shock craziness begin

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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/073111-blackhat-roundup.html

By Ellen Messmer
Network World
July 31, 2011

Ready to power on next week, the annual Black Hat Conference in Las 
Vegas promises to be the high-voltage event it has been in the past 
where security experts tear apart any naïve hope that there's really 
anything secure at all that was ever made by the high-tech industry.

Black Hat 2011 will showcase more than 50 presentations by security 
researchers in which the most intense will detail vulnerabilities in 
everything from USB devices, to printers and scanners, to iPhones to 
Android devices, to hacking Chrome OS and notebooks, to industrial SCADA 
systems.

Details on some of this are already spilling out, such as in the case of 
Charlie Miller, who in a Fortune article said he has found a way to hack 
the chips that control the batteries in Apple's MacBook, MacBook Pro and 
MacBook Air, letting him ruin them or install persistent malware.

There could be a few horror-inducing sessions, too, such as the 
presentation from iSec Partners researchers Don Bailey and Matthew 
Solnik, who will provide a few tips on "war texting" to find cars -- 
yes, automobiles -- and exploit mobile-networking vulnerabilities in 
them in order to unlock someone else's car and turn the engine on via a 
laptop.

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