The last week of July and first week of August is always an interesting time in the security world. That's when the annual Black Hat and DefCon conferences take place, initiating a flurry of software patches and news stories, as the world's leading security researchers release their latest findings. (DefCon is the world's biggest hacker conference, and is always preceded by the closely-tied Black Hat, which focuses on enterprise security professionals).

Most of the presentations at Black Hat are dedicated to exploring new research techniques and methods of finding--then fixing--security issues. Some of these are broad, industry-wide problems (such as new ways of attacking web sites), while others affect only a specific platform, such as Microsoft Windows.

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