While a black hat hacker would take the info in all probability keep coming back to the well for more.

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That security flaw was first publicly demonstrated by Cody Brocious, a 24-year-old software developer for Mozilla, at the Black Hat hacker conference in July.

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He was just doing his job as a so-called white-hat hacker for AirTight Networks, a manufacturer of wireless intrusion protection hardware and software that was invented in India and brought to market in the U.S. AirTight's chief executive, David King, sends hackers out for unsolicited security assessments.

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Teso isn't the first so-called "white hat" hacker to expose what appear to be holes in air-traffic security.

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But those rules still offer a few important rights to fliers, as outlined in this helpful PDF created by a "white-hat" hacker, graduate student and security researcher who goes by the name "Sai" and has made a serious vocation of digging into TSA minutiae.

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The hacker attack at the Black Hat security conference Thursday took even the most jaded security experts by surprise.

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Creating a false base station is one of the tricks that researcher Chris Paget is expected to perform on Saturday in a talk at Defcon, a more hacker-friendly conference that immediately follows Black Hat.

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The inconspicuous lock hacking device is an adaption of one demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in July by Cody Brocious, a hacker and software developer for Mozilla, who discovered and exploited a vulnerability in Onity locks, a cheap and popular hotel room lock that the company says are used on at least four million hotel rooms worldwide.

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The name Dark Patterns itself (what hacker-types might think of as black-hat user experience) names and helps shine a light on a previously murky area.

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