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Mobile Networks Threatened - DEFCON Hackers Could Help
Blog Mobile Networks Threatened - DEFCON Hackers Could Help If you are worth your weight in code, you know that the “hot spot” this month was the annual DEFCON event held in Las Vegas. As the MBTA debacle at DEFCON points out, there are significant...
[August 19, 2008, 18:57]
DEFCON
Downloads DEFCON is a stunning, online multi-player simulation of global thermonuclear war. The game, inspired by the 1983 cult-classic film, WarGames, superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion surrounding the Cold War era.
[August 9, 2007, 8:00]
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]
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]
Tools to be offered for breaking into Oracle databases
News During their presentation at the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences next week in Las Vegas, security experts will release a tool that can be used to break into Oracle databases. Chris Gates and Mario Ceballos will present Oracle Pentesting...
[July 24, 2009, 10:21]
Hacker joins US Homeland Security in advisory role
News Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the US Homeland Security Advisory Council. Moss's background as a computer hacker (known as 'Dark Tangent') and role as a...
[June 8, 2009, 8:57]
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]
Judge lifts gag order on Boston travelcard-hack
News The order had been imposed at the request of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), to prevent the students giving a talk on travel-smartcard vulnerabilities at the Defcon security conference.
[August 20, 2008, 17:07]
'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]
Researcher delays release of SSL exploit
News Perry had planned to release his exploit tool, which automates the hijacking of the cookies, on Sunday — two weeks after he gave a talk about the vulnerabilities at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas.
[August 26, 2008, 11:16]
Security researchers vs vendors: Hope for truce
News In 2005, Cisco Systems filed a lawsuit against security researcher Michael Lynn just hours after he gave a presentation at Defcon about how attackers could take over Cisco routers. That's a good lesson for three MIT students who pulled a talk at...
[September 18, 2008, 10:55]
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]
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]
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]
Security talk pulled after ATM vendor complains
News Juniper Networks has pulled a talk about a flaw in ATM software that one of its researchers was scheduled to give at the Black Hat and Defcon security conferences, after the ATM vendor complained. Jack's description of the talk, which was posted on...
[July 2, 2009, 13:13]
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]
Researchers exploit web protocol to hijack traffic
News In a presentation at the Defcon security conference earlier this month, researchers Alex Pilosov and Tony Kapela demonstrated an attack which exploited the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Security researchers have warned of an underlying security...
[August 27, 2008, 15:27]
