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Defcon

July 31, 2010 Hackers To Rush To Black Hat, Defcon This Week Send by srimadman This year the talk is back on the agenda for Black Hat and Defcon, which run Wednesday and Thursday, and Friday through Sunday, respectively, in Las Vegas. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 Ode To DefCon: The Biggest Data Breaches In History Send by StevieJanowski If you have never been affected by a data breach, congratulations, you have been lucky so far as more than 340,102,273 records containing sensitive personal information have been breached just in the U.S. since January 2005. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 Hackers Target Corps Like BP, Shell For 'social Engineering' Send by GonzoMuckraker Hackers at an infamous DefCon gathering are proving that old-fashioned smooth talk rivals slick software skills when it comes to pulling off attacks on computer networks. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 DEFCON (video Game) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Posted by Hellen Popovich DEFCON is a real-time strategy game created by independent British game developer [...] while praising Defcon as "as pure and direct a game as its [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 Hackers On A Plane Blog Archive Will Club-Mate Be At Defcon ... Send by Howie Ashmead There's only one way to find out, and I'm throwing down a challenge: If DefCon attendees buy 40 cases of Club-Mate from me, via PayPal, by Wednesday July 28 at Noon, I'll deliver it to Defcon 18. Details on at the Club-Mate for Defcon [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 I H4X0R3D DefCon Button-Front Work Shirt Posted by Hellen Popovich I H4X0R3D DefCon short sleeve button front work shirt. The graphics and text are embroidered on both sides. Click here for close up photo of the graphic. CONDITION: Looks new - worn once at DefCon convention (and washed). MATERIAL: 65% Polyester, 35% Cotton SIZE: Large (24" armpit to armpit, 32" in [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 Free Readings Online Blog Archive DefCon Contest Rattles FBI's ... Send by slashman snydeq writes "A DefCon contest that invites contestants to trick employees at 30 US corporations into revealing not-so-sensitive data has rattled nerves at the FBI. Chris Hadnagy, who is organizing the contest, also noted concerns from [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 FBI Pokes Around Defcon Social Engineering Contest That Tries To ... Posted by Hellen Popovich The world-famous Defcon hacker conference is currently ongoing in Las Vegas, and we already have our first bit of controversy. (I fully expect plenty of ?evil hackers do bad things? stories to pop up in the coming hours. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 FBI Pokes Around Defcon Social Engineering Contest That Tries To ... Send by Nicholas Deleon The world-famous Defcon hacker conference is currently ongoing in Las Vegas, and we already have our first bit of controversy. (I fully expect [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 [Wired]DefCon Ninja Party Badges - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net Send by lordikon Seemed kinda cool, and they're video games, thought it might be video game news-worthy. Source A hacker group known as the Ninjas has created what may. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 Silent, Easily Made Android Rootkit Released At DefCon TechBlogger Posted by Hellen Popovich An anonymous reader writes with news that security experts from Spider Labs released a kernel level rootkit for Android devices at DefCon on Friday. ?As a proof of concept, it is able to send an attacker a reverse TCP over 3G/WIFI shell [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 Defcon Day Two Posted by Hellen Popovich Last night?s Defcon ended with watching Hacker Jeopardy, and we are both ready for another full day. The first talk: reading rfid tags at extreme ranges (200+ ft) [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 Exclusive Sneak Peek: DefCon Ninja Party Badge | Privacy Digest Send by MacRonin Exclusive Sneak Peek: DefCon Ninja Party Badge: Via Threat Level. LAS VEGAS ? A hacker group known as the Ninjas has created what may be the best DefCon badge ever. The badge allows wireless ninja battle between badge holders. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 DEFCON 16 - Frequently Asked Questions Posted by Hellen Popovich The DEFCON 16 speaking schedule is complete, with occasional minor adjustments. [...] You can also subscribe to the DEFCON RSS Feed for up to the minute news. [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 01, 2010 Defcon Wifi Rifle Of Doom - Danielmiessler.com | Posterous Posted by Hellen Popovich July 31, 2010 Defcon Wifi Rifle of Doom Loading mentions. Retweet. Comments (0). Leave a comment [...] To leave a comment on this posterous, please login by clicking one of the following. Posterous-login twitter [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 Defcon Day 1: Hallway Lines, Parties, And A Knife Fight? Posted by Hellen Popovich I figured now is a good time to do a wrap-up of Defcon Day 1. From the tweets tagged with #defcon, I have figured out a few things: There are lines. Everywhere. [1] [2] [3] It is crowded as hell. [1] The parties kickass as usual [...] .until the #hackerpimps party was ended due to a knife fight(!) [1] [ [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 Yahoo! News: Personal Technology Posted by Hellen Popovich Yahoo! News: Personal Technology BlackBerry maker to launch tablet in November: report (Reuters) FCC Concerned Over DefCon Mobile Hacking Talk (PC World) Remains of the Day: Zuck's not an iPhone, he's an Android (Macworld.com) Motorola spent $880,000 lobbying in second quarter (AP) RIM BlackPad Expe [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 FCC Concerned Over DefCon Mobile Hacking Talk Send by SMMobiles "The only way I can get the word out that people need to not trust GSM anymore is by demonstrating it," he said. The US Federal. [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 31, 2010 DEFCON 17 Hacking Conference: July 31 - August 1, 2009 In Las Vegas ... Posted by Hellen Popovich Started in 1992 by the Dark Tangent, DEFCON is the world's longest running and largest underground hacking conference. Hackers, corporate IT professionals, and three letter [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

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