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Are you still vulnerable to Stagefright? Get your Android device checked

Security Researcher Joshua Drake has published about a vulnerability in the heart of Android that could allow attackers to steal information from Android devices through remotely execute code via a crafted MMS. Potentially 95% of Android devices should be vulnerable. Have you checked yours?

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DEF CON – Upgrading your mom’s basement

If Black Hat is becoming the new RSA, then DEF CON is oozing toward Black Hat, it seems, and B-Sides is the new DEF CON. This year it got some Ikea furniture to spruce up its mom’s basement. Not totally commercial, but definitely more – first apartment folding furniture – chic; the basement just got upgraded.

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How’s Black Hat in 2015? It grows up (and leaves mom’s basement)

Blackhat grew! Not only did the hacker types leave their mom’s basement and get jobs, some even were forced to start explaining security to the CEO. A few succeeded in this new role, but enough to convince the execs that if something bad happens in IT, it happens to the execs shortly thereafter.

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