Day one of the Black Hat defense Conference in Las Vegas got off to a hot start with details about DNS and e-mail flaws, Google gaffes, and Cisco vulnerabilities. And some French reporters were kicked out for trying to hack the pressroom facilities.

The Black Hat conference is the premiere conference for the latest in safety measure news and tools. Nearly 7,000 attendees are listening to presentations on phishing, hacking and malware, and many are taking comprehensive training on the

latest shield tools and techniques to protect their networks.

Kaminsky Details DNS Flaw

Dan Kaminsky gave an in-depth briefing of the much-reported DNS flaw he discovered, with some startling new wrinkles.

First and foremost, Kaminsky estimated that only 70 percent of Fortune 500 servers have rolled out a DNS patch. Despite the fact that many servers are still exposed, Kaminsky ran through a detailed laundry list of ways to exploit the […]

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