Dan Kaplan

 
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan has been a reporter with SC Magazine since January 2006. He writes monthly features on varying IT security topics and contributes daily breaking news items for SCMagazineUS.com. He also regularly meets with industry experts and leading vendors to discuss the latest trends in the marketplace. He previously worked as a reporter for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey. He graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in journalism. He resides in Hoboken, N.J.
 

Recent Articles

Judge denies five-month gag in transit hack case

August 20, 2008

A federal judge has lifted a temporary injunction that denied three college students from presenting their subway payment hack research at the recent Defcon show.

Malicious "ransomware" banner ads go undetected

August 18, 2008

Security experts worry that an open-source Flash animation toolkit is being widely misused to create malicious banner advertisements.

A conversation with Dan Kaminsky -- Part 2

August 18, 2008

At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Dan Kaplan talks with researcher Dan Kaminsky, who discovered a widely discussed and very dangerous DNS design flaw.

Microsoft looks into Visual Studio bug

August 15, 2008

Microsoft is investigating a zero-day vulnerability in Visual Studio.

AOL phisher sentenced to seven years

August 14, 2008

A 24-year-old, who admitted to phishing AOL users during a four-year period, has received seven years in prison.

Attackers drop CNN in favor of MSNBC in malware ploy

August 13, 2008

Phishers have changed the channel on a scam to infect users with the lure of breaking news videos.

Microsoft pushes out 11 patches for 26 flaws

August 12, 2008

In its largest security update in 18 months, Microsoft on Tuesday delivered 11 patches to resolve 26 vulnerabilities in its operating system and related components.

Business logic flaws endanger websites

August 12, 2008

Forget SSL injection and cross-site scripting, there's a new website vulnerability in town -- and you can't scan for it.

A conversation with Dan Kaminsky -- Part 1

August 11, 2008

At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Dan Kaplan talks with researcher Dan Kaminsky, who discovered a widely discussed and very dangerous DNS design flaw.

EFF to fight for MIT students banned from giving Defcon talk

August 11, 2008

A privacy watchdog hopes a judge's decision to pull a Defcon presentation doesn't impede future security research.
 
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