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Vista: 'Expect hackers to find holes'
News In the summer, rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska demonstrated a signed driver requirement bypass at Defcon 2006. Antivirus experts from Kaspersky Labs have predicted 90 per cent of current malware will run on... [12 Dec 2006]
Trojan sinks its teeth into BlackBerry
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. [09 Aug 2006]
Q&A: Kevin Mitnick, former hacker
Comment He is a celebrity, especially at events such as the annual Defcon gathering of hackers in Las Vegas, where attendees ask him to sign their badges. To many, the name Kevin Mitnick is synonymous with "notorious hacker". [07 Nov 2005]
Cisco issues cyber attack alert
News During the Black Hat and Defcon security events in July, researcher Michael Lynn demonstrated he could gain control of a Cisco router by exploiting a known security flaw in IOS. A serious flaw in Cisco Systems software... [08 Sep 2005]
Hacker mag closure spells bad news for security
News The 63rd and final edition of Phrack will come out as a hardback collectors copy and will be available to attendees at the DefCon hackers conference in Las Vegas between 29 and 31 July as well as the What The Hack... [11 Jul 2005]
Las Vegas at 100: Why it's tech's kind of town
Comment In keeping with the criminal underbelly of Las Vegas, hacker convention DefCon has also found a home here. Like the adult entertainment industry, the world of gambling is a test bed for many cutting-edge technologies. [16 May 2005]
Who's afraid of the big, bad e-voting system?
News The polls, taken by the Poneman Institute, separately surveyed ordinary people and a much smaller group of researchers at the recent Defcon computer security conference. The public survey was large enough to be... [04 Aug 2004]
DNS hack leaves corporate networks wide open
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... [02 Aug 2004]
5 years ago...Clinton signs internet copyright protection act
News This was after the high-profile acquittal last year of Dmitri Sklyarov, who was charged under the DMCA after describing his company's software for decrypting Adobe's eBooks software to attendees of the Defcon security... [29 Oct 2003]
"Dmitri's law" revisited: DMCA claims first victim
News Sklyarov had described his company's software for decrypting Adobe's eBooks software to attendees of the DefCon security conference. A federal jury has convicted a Florida man of violating the Digital Millennium... [25 Sep 2003]
Robot guard dog invented to police Wi-Fi networks
News Paul Holman, the robot's co-designer, who demonstrated it for the first time at the DefCon hacker convention here, said. Its designers said they're still working on the autonomous capabilities - including sensors to... [05 Aug 2003]
English Channel web haven sunk?
News Lackey was speaking to an audience of about 600 at the DefCon hacker convention in Las Vegas. A project to transform a man-made platform in the English Channel into a "safe haven" for controversial websites has failed... [05 Aug 2003]
Hacker contest aims for better security
News An ethical hacking contest at the annual DefCon conference in Las Vegas is aiming to promote better security practice. The Root Fu contest pits eight teams - including some experts from US federal agencies - against each... [05 Aug 2003]
Hackers release exploit code: industry poised for attack
News Maiffret and other security researchers worried that next week's Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas will act as a catalyst and spur a malicious hacker to create and release such a worm. A hacker group has released... [28 Jul 2003]
Dmitri takes the stand
News During his presentation on flaws in eBook security at the DefCon convention in Las Vegas, Sklyarov told the audience that a publisher of an eBook "puts itself in danger" when it relies on the insecure software provided... [10 Dec 2002]
