AUGUST 2007 | Black Hat and DEFCON
Hacking the Defcon Badge
The hack was simple and in total took me about 10 minutes. According to the guys at the booth and Joe Grand (the badge's designer) I was the first person at the con to hack a badge.
Black Hat 2007 : Day 2 : Chris Paget
Chris Paget stirred up much controversy at Black Hat DC with the release of his RFID cloner. The cloner can be easily built with "a high school level of electronics" and some free time.
Read the articles HERE.
Letter From Hackerdom: Not the Same Old DEF CON, Black Hat
Like I [Brian Krebs - Security Fix] did the past two years, I am currently blogging from Sin City, which plays host once a year to the back-to-back Black Hat and DEF CON hacker conferences.
In the past, these gatherings have been sort of a Wild West of hacking, with researchers unveiling previously unknown security holes in widely used software and hardware. That's largely missing this time around.
Read the article HERE.
Dateline NBC undercover reporter outed
A lot of makeup can make you prettier, but it won't make you smarter. Michelle Madigan, Associate Producer for Dateline NBC found this out the hard way at Defcon. According to sources at the show, she was there to do a piece called Hackers for Hire, with the goal of showing the criminal hacker underground and possibly outing an undercover fed.
Read the article HERE. This story is also reported by eWEEK.
The MacGyvers of Hacking
Remember the TV show MacGyver? Whenever he was confronted with a problem, ol' Mac would simply look around him, and then use his surprising brains to come up with a cunning solution, using only what was at hand. To this day, I always keep a can of aerosol deodorant in the bathroom, in case I ever have to kill a king cobra.
But what if MacGyver had been a hacker? Read the article HERE.
The hack was simple and in total took me about 10 minutes. According to the guys at the booth and Joe Grand (the badge's designer) I was the first person at the con to hack a badge.
Black Hat 2007 : Day 2 : Chris Paget
Chris Paget stirred up much controversy at Black Hat DC with the release of his RFID cloner. The cloner can be easily built with "a high school level of electronics" and some free time.
Read the articles HERE.
Letter From Hackerdom: Not the Same Old DEF CON, Black Hat
Like I [Brian Krebs - Security Fix] did the past two years, I am currently blogging from Sin City, which plays host once a year to the back-to-back Black Hat and DEF CON hacker conferences.
In the past, these gatherings have been sort of a Wild West of hacking, with researchers unveiling previously unknown security holes in widely used software and hardware. That's largely missing this time around.
Read the article HERE.
Dateline NBC undercover reporter outed
A lot of makeup can make you prettier, but it won't make you smarter. Michelle Madigan, Associate Producer for Dateline NBC found this out the hard way at Defcon. According to sources at the show, she was there to do a piece called Hackers for Hire, with the goal of showing the criminal hacker underground and possibly outing an undercover fed.
Read the article HERE. This story is also reported by eWEEK.
The MacGyvers of Hacking
Remember the TV show MacGyver? Whenever he was confronted with a problem, ol' Mac would simply look around him, and then use his surprising brains to come up with a cunning solution, using only what was at hand. To this day, I always keep a can of aerosol deodorant in the bathroom, in case I ever have to kill a king cobra.
But what if MacGyver had been a hacker? Read the article HERE.
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