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• Black Hat Europe: IoT devices can hack phones

  The Internet of things (IoT) has already been used to launch the biggest DDoS attacks ever, but now it represents a potential path for attackers to compromise cell phones.

• Bugs & Bugs: DARPA, bug bounties & thousands of bees

  Facebook Live stream captures latest news on computer bugs & real insects

• Black Hat: 9 free security tools for defense & attacking

  When Black Hat convenes next week in Las Vegas, it will be a rich environment for gathering tools that can be used to tighten security but also - in the wrong hands - to carry out exploits.

• Bugs & Bugs: National Moth Week, PHP, Black Hat & more

  National Moth Week, Black Hat exploit presentations, edible insects, Pornhub bug bounty & Zica prevention at the Rio Olympics all come up on Bugs & Bugs Facebook Live event

• At Black Hat: A free tool for spear phishing Twitter

  A spear phishing tool to automate the creation of phony tweets - complete with malicious URLs – with messages victims are likely to click on will be released at Black Hat by researchers from ZeroFOX.
  Called SNAP_R (for social network automated phisher with reconnaissance), the tool runs through a target Twitter account to gather data on what topics seem to interest the subscriber. Then it writes a tweet loaded up with a link to a site containing malware and sends it.