It looks like it's time to update our event list. Here are some hacking related events happening through the rest of the year. ToorCon September 26-28 San Diego, CA - In its tenth year, ToorCon has always been one of our favorites. The conference is fairly small, but features great content like last year's fuzzing talk. Arse Elektronika (NSFW) September 25-28 San Francisco, CA - Happening … [Read more...]
The GIFAR image vulnerability
August 4, 2008 By 7 Comments
Researchers at NGS Software have come up with a method to embed malicious code into a picture. When viewed, the picture could send the attacker the credentials of the viewer. Social sites like Facebook and Myspace are particularly at risk, but the researchers say that any site which includes log ins and user uploaded pictures could be vulnerable. This even includes some bank sites. The attack is … [Read more...]
Black Hat hackers face off in Iron Chef style competition
July 7, 2008 By 1 Comment
Which is a better method for finding vulnerabilities, fuzzing or static-code analysis? The question will be put to the test at next month's Black Hat USA conference, where two experienced hackers security researchers will be given a piece of mystery code and one hour to find all the vulnerabilities they can using one of the two methods. [Charlie Miller] from Independent Security Evaluators will … [Read more...]
ToorCon Seattle 2008: Lightning talks
April 22, 2008 By 5 Comments
The second ToorCon Seattle got off to a quick start last Friday with a round of Lightning Talks at the Public Nerd Area. Each talk was limited to 5 minutes and covered a broad range of topics. Some talks were just supplying a chunk of information while others were a call to action for personal projects. Here are a few of the talks that we found interesting. … [Read more...]
ToorCon Seattle Beta
May 13, 2007 By 5 Comments
I'm attending ToorCon Seattle Beta this weekend. Today was a single track made up of 20 minute talks. ToorCon is really best in breed when it comes to hacker conferences. Highlights follow:Beetle, from the Shmoo, opened the conference with WiFight Club. Of course, by me mentioning that, you're officially in WiFight Club. This will eventually become a competition that is summarized best with the … [Read more...]
22C3 Day 10 and 11 Round Up
January 4, 2006 By 5 Comments
Now that the CCC is over, we finally dug ourselves out of a ginormous pile of cables (Kabelsalat ist gesund!) to bring you this round up post about the best stuff from the last two days of the con. First up on day 10 was I See Airplanes!, Eric Blossom's excellent speech on creating hardware for making homebrew radars and software using the GnuRadio project. He uses bistatic passive receivers in … [Read more...]
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