I was 11 years young when The Hacker Manifesto was originally published in 1986 (yes, I’m that old). I had no idea about the manifesto at that age but several years later I begin tinkering with my first computer (an Apple IIe) and convinced my parents that I needed a separate phone line for a […]
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The con that is Notacon is upon us. Notacon is one of the best con’s I have ever attended! It’s a great mix of hacking, security, art, technology and everything in between. It’s also small enough to network with others…oh, and its in Cleveland which means its affordable! Things get started tonight with a free
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Continuing the zombie apocalypse from Defcon…Kevin Johnson and I will again be presenting “Social Zombies: Your Friends Want to Eat Your Brains” at this week’s OWASP AppSec DC conference. We will be speaking Thursday, November 12th at 2:10 in room 146c. We will have some new material and updates from the presentation we gave at
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Shocking but true…today a researcher discovered that Twitter has been used for command and control of a botnet which may have been used by Brazilian hackers to steal online banking login information. Kudos to the researcher, Jose Nazario, who found this. It was an interesting read to say the least. The bot would basically look
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Kevin and I want to thank everyone that came out to our talk at DEFCON 17 this past weekend. We had a great time giving the talk and thanks for the feedback! Even the two Facebook developers that came to our Q&A enjoyed it! Having said that, Kevin and I will never, ever get a
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Yes, you are reading the title of this post correctly! Massive Zombie attacks at DefCon this year…bring your shotgun (we are kidding of course, please do not bring firearms to DefCon…you will make the goons very unhappy)! Seriously though, Kevin Johnson and I will be presenting “Social Zombies: Your Friends Want to Eat Your Brains”
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I’m here in DC getting ready for ShmooCon which starts tomorrow. I had some time to blog before things get crazy later tonight when everyone starts to arrive for the con. UPDATE: Ummm…someone *may* have hacked the Windows kiosks at the hotel…saw Ubuntu loading on one and Howard the Duck playing on another…probably shouldn’t use
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I have been following several stories of recent targeted attacks against a few high profile security professionals. Two that I was made aware of were pdp from GNUCITIZEN and Alan Shimel from StillSecure, After All These Years. pdp had his Gmail account compromised and his entire mailbox mirrored all over BitTorrent. Alan’s, was far worse
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This is just a classic case of one administrator who managed to get all the “keys to the kingdom”. From the San Francisco Chronicle: “Terry Childs, a 43-year-old computer network administrator who lives in Pittsburg, has been charged with four counts of computer tampering and is scheduled to be arraigned today. Prosecutors say Childs, who
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Good post on Bloginfosec last week that talks about all the interesting security related sounds that go on in pretty much any environment just by listening. If you saw Johnny Long’s “No Tech Hacking” presentation then you will probably remember the line “What does a hacker see?” as Johnny pointed out items in pictures that
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