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Security Showdown: Black Hat Vs. Def Con
News Yet starting Friday, hackers emerge at Def Con, with many from the underground culture coming out into the hot Las Vegas sun to trade code, learn new tricks and, in some cases, finally meet in real life.
[July 11, 2001, 14:49]
DEF CON: Fear And Fascination In Las Vegas
News (Editor's note: ZDNet News reporter Rob Lemos holed up in Las Vegas for three days of fun and games at DEF CON, the mother of all hacker and computer security conventions. Considering how in its six years of existence, DEF CON has never been...
[August 4, 1998, 14:09]
Back Orifice Creator's New Projects
News "Sir Dystic" -- the hacker behind the original BackOrifice program released at last year's DEF CON -- plans to release two other programs in the coming weeks. Windows hides far too much of what is going on," said the laid-back programmer from the...
[July 13, 1999, 9:16]
Roundup: The Summer Of Hacking
News Mon, 31 Jul At Def Con in Las Vegas, hackers are urged to work for the nation, not against it They're also having two of their biggest gatherings this summer -- Def Con in Las Vegas and H2K in New York.
[July 13, 2000, 14:26]
A Year Ago: Back Orifice Creator's New Projects
News Sir Dystic" -- the hacker behind the original BackOrifice program released at last year's DEF CON -- plans to release two other programs in the coming weeks. Windows hides far too much of what is going on," said the laid-back programmer from the...
[July 14, 2000, 7:30]
DefCon: Hacking For Human Rights
News Greg Walton, a freelance human rights researcher, spoke to hackers at the Def Con conference in support of the Hacktivismo project, an attempt to create an anonymous, private way of getting human rights information across the Internet while...
[July 17, 2001, 9:50]
Back Orifice 2.0 Going Legit?
News "I think you can guarantee that there will be a 'Back Orifice for Dummies' book" -- That's what Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) member Tweety Fish hoped would be one outcome of Saturday's blockbuster debut of the new, open-source version of Back...
[July 12, 1999, 10:16]
FBI Nabs Russian Expert At DefCon
News The arrest came a day after Sklyarov outlined the problems plaguing e-book formats and Adobe's PDF format at the Def Con hacking conference. Dario Diaz, a public defender in Tampa, Florida, told Def Con attendees on Saturday of another case, in...
[July 18, 2001, 9:41]
New Back Orifice Promises NT Break-ins
News The first version of Back Orifice, so named to poke fun at Microsoft's Back Office product, was released in August last year at the annual hacking trade show called DEF CON. We will be releasing tools at DEF CON or in the near future which we...
[July 8, 1999, 15:26]
Arrest Fuels Adobe Copyright Fight
News The jailed programmer Sklyarov had outlined problems with Adobe eBook and PDF security in a paper presented at the Def Con hacker convention. After several demonstrations that the program did indeed remove the security of eBook files, FBI agent...
[July 19, 2001, 10:13]
BSD A Better OS Than Linux?
News When the best, brightest and most suspicious minds from the computer industry gathered in Las Vegas for the DEF CON trade show earlier this month, Linux-taunting by BSD sophisticates wasn't at all subtle.
[July 22, 1999, 16:49]
British Hackers: Spotty Teenagers They Ain't
News They get the money for Def Con by putting on the Back Hat conference a few days beforehand. While the Americans promote major hacking conferences such as Def Con, the UK scene remains underdeveloped in terms of events and meetings "We don't have...
[July 16, 1999, 11:50]
EU Pact Criminalising Security Research?
News The possibility scares European computer security experts gathered this week for Def Con Europe -- so much so that one hacker called it "the witch hunt of the 21st century". At Def Con in Amsterdam, where experts are discussing technical computer...
[October 26, 2000, 8:56]
High-stakes Hacking, Euro-style
News The difference between the American and European hacking worlds will be a hot topic this week in Amsterdam, as the first international version of Def Con, the annual hacking convention in Las Vegas, gets underway.
[October 25, 2000, 9:31]
Hackers: Uncle Sam Wants You!
News If you are extremely talented, and you are wondering what you'd like to do for the rest of your life -- join us, and help us educate our people," said Arthur Money, assistant secretary of defence for command, control, communications and...
[July 31, 2000, 10:28]
Does The Media Cause Hacking?
News DEF CON, an annual strange brew of security experts, law enforcement officials, hackers and, yes -- "The Media" -- descends upon Las Vegas this Friday. The event will be televised. It will also be streamed on the Web, reported upon for newspapers...
[July 6, 1999, 8:33]
HACKERS - A ZDNet Special
News With all the fuss over Def Con 7.0 you could be forgiven for thinking that hacking is a uniquely American affair. You couldn't be more wrong. It may be less flashy and more polite, but hacking is alive and well in this country, and what's more, it...
[July 16, 1999, 17:15]
Cult Of The Dead Cow Releases BO2K
News BO2K, which debuted at the DEF CON hacking conference Saturday, is now available for free download at cDc's Web site. The Cult of the Dead Cow on Wednesday released its controversial Back Orifice 2000 hacking tool over the Internet.
[July 15, 1999, 8:46]
US Government Wants A Few Good Hackers
News That was the message that from a seven-member "Meet the Fed" panel, where government officials answered the questions of a roomful of hackers at the Def Con conference in Las Vegas on Saturday. We're from the government and we want you to help us.
[July 16, 2001, 15:47]
Corporate Crimeware Threat 'moving To Adobe'
News Today, most spyware and other "crimeware" applications target flaws in client-side applications, explained Jeff Moss, who founded the Black Hat and Def Con hacker conventions. The launch of Microsoft Office 2007 is likely to force malicious hackers...
[February 8, 2007, 14:22]
