HITB Presenters Discussed Day-to-day Dangers

The Hack in the Box (HITB) conference recently wrapped up in Malaysia. I would love to have attended but, it’s a bit of a hike from Canada. That being said, I will have to live vicariously through Johnathan Kent’s coverage as he attended on the BBC’s dime.

From BBC News:

The white hats carry out independent testing of computer security systems by trying to find loopholes in them – and then usually taking their research to the companies in whose products they have discovered problems.

And what the assembled white hats were saying is that the security of a lot of the stuff we use or rely on just isn’t good enough.

Take Bluetooth.

Most modern phones use this short range radio system to transfer data be it speech, images or text.

Hackers have known for years that it is vulnerable but Dino Covotsos, the Managing Director of a South African company, Telspace Systems says some phone manufacturers still seem to be complacent about it.

There are some sound bites about SCADA from Alessio Pennasilico. I would be interested to get my hands on a copy of his slides if they are floating around the interweb. Here are some of the presentations: HTIB 2007 Presentations.

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