Tag: defcon
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Researchers demonstrate how IPv6 can easily be used to perform MitM attacks
Many devices simply waiting for router advertisements, good or evil. When early last year I was doing research for an article on IPv6 and security, I was surprised to learn how easy it was to set up an IPv6 tunnel into an IPv4-only environment. I expected this could easily be used in various nefarious ways.…
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Almost half of users think virus-writing contests are a good idea
Shocking survey results disappoint security experts. Nearly half of the respondents in a Virus Bulletin poll said they thought that virus-writing contests are a useful way of highlighting issues with anti-virus products – while 12 per cent felt that such contests are nothing but harmless fun. Last month, the organisers of the annual Defcon hackers’…