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Hacking for Good: The Cult of the Dead Cow and the Rise of Hacker Culture

Members of the Cult of the Dead Cow are joined by fellow hackers and security leaders Dug Song, Katie Moussouris, and Heather Adkins to trace the origins of hacker culture and its lasting influence.

Video, Black Hat

AWS Promises to Scan for Misconfigured Servers

Amazon Web Services will now scan customer environments for potentially misconfigured servers in the wake of Capital One's data breach. Even though many of these cloud-based data breaches weren't the fault of cloud service providers, many are stepping up to detect problems before they become security incidents.

Cloud, Amazon

Coordinated Ransomware Attack Hits Texas Government Agencies

More than 20 Texas agencies have been compromised in a widespread ransomware attack.

Ransomware

New Attack Exposes Serious Bluetooth Weakness

The KNOB attack exploits a weakness in how Bluetooth devices negotiate the encryption key, allowing eavesdropping and decryption of communications.

Bluetooth Security

Chrome and Firefox Removing EV Certificate Indicators

In the coming months, Google and Mozilla will remove the Extended Validation security indicators from the browser address bars.

Google, Mozila