Black Hat USA 2011 – starting 3rd August 2011 - http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-11/bh-us-11-home.html
DEFCON 19 – starting 4th August 2011 – http://www.defcon.org/
Chaos Communication Camp 2011 – starting 10th August 2011 – http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/wiki/Main_Page
Hack in the Box Malaysia 2011 – starting 10th October 2011 – http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/
More: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Events and http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
The flaw making all of this possible is the result of Apple’s decision to ship MacBook batteries without changing the passwords needed to run updates or make low-level changes to their embedded controllers. By reverse-engineering past updates, he had no trouble deducing the pass codes.
More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/22/mac_battery_hack/
Entanet’s Head of Marketing, Darren Farnden, said:
“The idea of the IMP/CCDP is to collect and store all electronic communications including emails, social networking sites, website browsing histories and phone calls to help the police and, more likely, GCHQ fight cybercrime and terrorism. The problem with the IMP/CCDP is not only the huge privacy issues that it throws up but also the immense technical challenges.
[We are concerned about] the feasibility of communications providers such as Entanet being required to collect and store this immense amount of data. We also raised concerns over the security of this data and how the government expects to protect it from potential hackers. Let’s face it, the Government doesn’t have the best track record in this area. We have had everything from lost laptops to website hacks in the past. Our views haven’t changed.”
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YouView (Project Canvas), a UK subscription-free and broadband ISP based video-on-demand and catch-up TV ( IPTV ) service, has warned that the country’s woeful internet access is, outside of faster cable areas (i.e. those covered by Virgin Media UK), “still a real choke point” for the product.
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/07/23/uk-youview-partner-expresses-concern-over-broadband-isp-based-tv-service.html
