Wal-Mart Hacked By Wily ‘Social Engineer’ At Defcon Conference

 Wal Mart Hacked By Wily ‘Social Engineer’ At Defcon Conference

Not long ago a man calling himself Gary Darnell made telephone contact with the store manager of a Wal-Mart in a small military town in Canada. When Darnell told him that his store had the opportunity to win a major multi-million dollar government contract, the store manager couldn’t quite believe his luck.

Darnell explained that he was a recently hired manager of government logistics, explained some of the outlines of the contract (“all I know is Wal-Mart can make a ton of cash off it”) and told the store manager of his plans to visit. Continue Reading

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Apple Representatives Set To Attend Black Hat Hackers Conference

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The Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas has been going on for 15 years, however one major corporation has been noticeably absence from the event where unknown hackers can instantly become projected into the limelight for their exposés and the security failings of massive companies are highlighted!

The missing corporation is Apple of course, for years they have had the confidence in their products and have not felt the need to attend this event, unlike other corporations who have reluctantly trudged along to see how to improve their security across the board.

Well according to the several media outlets, this is all about to change, when Dallas De Atley, manager of Apple’s platform security team is scheduled to give a presentation at the Black Hat Conference on Thursday! De Atley is said to give a talk on the key security technologies in iOS, the operating system for iPhones and iPads.Continue Reading

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