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FBI Nabs Russian Expert At DefCon
News DefCon: hacking for human rights Mon 16 July At the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas this week, hackers have found themselves courted by the Feds Mon 16 July As DefCon, the world's biggest hacker convention, gets underway this week in Las...
[July 18, 2001, 9:41]
DefCon: Hacking For Human Rights
News Human rights activists put out a call to hackers here to help get the word out about their cause -- not by having them deface sites, but by creating applications that can help the organisations manage data.
[July 17, 2001, 9:50]
Robot 'guard Dog' Sniffs Out Wi-Fi Holes
News The point of the hacker robot is that it can become an autonomous hacker droid," said Paul Holman, the robot's co-designer, who demonstrated it for the first time at the DefCon hacker convention here.
[August 5, 2003, 10:00]
BlackBerry Security Risk Revealed
News At the Defcon hacker confab on Saturday, researcher Jesse D'Aguanno said he developed a program called BBProxy that, when running on a BlackBerry, gives an attacker entry to the network the wireless device connects to.
[August 9, 2006, 9:35]
'Harmless' DNS Data Can Mask Attacks
News Moreover, corporate security measures, such as firewalls, tend to ignore DNS data because they assume it's harmless, said Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher for telecommunications firm Avaya and a speaker at the Defcon hacking conference here.
[August 2, 2004, 9:10]
Black Hat To Dissect Windows Vista
News It will be followed by the DefCon, a gathering infamous for its hacker activity. Last year, Cisco drew the ire of many Black Hat and DefCon attendees when it sued a security researcher and conference organisers after a session on router security.
[August 1, 2006, 16:20]
Hacker School Teaches The Good Guys
News The group's work was even more frenetic than usual this week as it prepared for Defcon, a controversial annual hacker convention that begins Friday in Las Vegas and that, in past years, has hosted people on the FBI's wanted list.
[August 6, 2002, 9:33]
Websense Reveals Bait For Web 2.0 Cybercrooks
News The security company revealed its technique on Sunday at the Defcon show in Las Vegas. Websense has revealed one of its methods for monitoring malicious web activity. The company uses a series of web bots and user accounts, collectively referred to...
[August 8, 2007, 10:01]
US Government Wants A Few Good Hackers
News Such comments were directed at the younger members of the crowd, marking a drastic change for DefCon from previous years. Though the conference has its roots in the underground hacker movement, DefCon has been more about underground culture than...
[July 16, 2001, 15:47]
Experts: Let's Squash Software Bugs
News Security researchers and hackers who find vulnerabilities need to realise that discretion is more important than valour, several federal security experts said at the Defcon hacking conference. Additionally, federal officials said they would use the...
[August 5, 2002, 9:32]
Putting The Fun Back Into Hacking
News That may seem like a blase response to a serious security incident, but it's in the spirit of things at Defcon. A mix of teenagers to thirty-somethings, the hackers at the Defcon gathering in Las Vegas breathed second-hand cigarette smoke and...
[August 6, 2002, 8:12]
Old Game Machine Turned Into Linux Hacker Tool
News Two security researchers on Friday showed attendees at the Defcon hacking conference here how to reuse the small off-white boxes as stealthy network monitoring devices. Sega's defunct Dreamcast gaming console, which has long since stopped rolling...
[August 5, 2002, 7:37]
Channel 'haven' Hits Troubled Waters
News The 24-year-old Lackey spoke to an audience of about 600 at the DefCon hacker convention in Las Vegas. A widely publicised project to transform a man-made platform in the English Channel into a "safe haven" for controversial Web businesses has...
[August 5, 2003, 9:30]
Teams Compete To Hack And Defend
News The annual contest pits eight teams at the DefCon conference against each other in a test of network defense and hacking skills. The US government continues to talk tough on computer crime, but here in the desert, hackers -- including some from...
[August 5, 2003, 14:49]
Hackers To Release Anti-censorship Tool
News A source close to the group said it plans to produce the tool for circumventing government Internet blocking at Defcon, the world's premiere computer security conference, to be held in Las Vegas this July.
[April 30, 2001, 13:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The world long distance record for unamplified Wi-Fi connections has been ground into dust by a team at the DefCon Wi-Fi Shootout: using unmodified cards, they managed to get a strong signal over 125 miles between Utah and Nevada.
[August 5, 2005, 18:35]
Maligned Security Industry Gathers
News The DefCon convention -- a celebration of hacker culture and security knowledge -- brings together experts from the hacker underground, security-industry stars and geek groupies. That lack of progress is especially worrisome as hackers and security...
[July 30, 2003, 14:54]
Sir Dystic's Claims Rubbished
News Revelling in the infamy he created for himself at this week's DEFCON in Las Vegas, computer hacker Sir Dystic, of the hacker clan ‘Cult of the Dead Cow', reckons the program - Back Orifice - can be sent to a victim without being noticed, a...
[August 6, 1998, 17:05]
Cisco Flaw Presentation Spreads Across The Web
News The presentation, which was due to be given by Lynn at the Defcon conference in Las Vegas last week, was cancelled after legal threats from Cisco and ISS. Cisco's lawyers are sending out cease-and-desist notices to Web sites that have published a...
[August 1, 2005, 16:00]
Russian Programmer Out On Bail
News Sklyarov was detained in July at the DefCON convention in Las Vegas after he gave a speech about his company's software, a program that can be used to crack Adobe Systems' e-books. Three weeks after his arrest, Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov is...
[August 7, 2001, 9:13]
