DEF CON "Capture the Capture The Flag" Data

pablos writes "Each year DEF CON hosts the famed Capture The Flag contest. Hackers from all over the world duke it out on the network for 72 hours, hacking for the title. The Shmoo Group diligently logs every packet for posterity, we "Capture the Capture The Flag." Now is your chance to download by far the most interesting, 'sploit ridden, 5.8GB of intrusion collusion ever published. Free for the bandwidth endowed, this is the ultimate IDS testbed."

Comments

I like to watch ...

[ukryule]

Either voyeurism has reached a new level, or it's just the players and their proud(?) mums downloading this.

Then again, I guess it's not a bad screensaver!

Social engineering is the way forward

[Anton Anatopopov]

In the dim and distant past, before I became 'respectable' I used to be a hacker wannabe. I used to use my 1200 baud modem to dial into various systems, and lets just say, that had the law been the same then as it is now, I could have been arrested.

But after I became involved in tech support for major financial institutions, I realised that although security there was reasonably good, you could almost always circumvent it via social engineering.

My favorite trick to get into the server room was to put on an old hard-hat and a fluorescent jacket. I would stand outside the door until someone came along, then I would simply ask them to let me in. Which about 70% of the time, they did. At which point, I would point out to them that I could have been anyone, usually got an embarassed apology.

I was using social engineering to raise the security awareness of staff, but it was a real eye-opener to me just how easy it was to control people.

Re:Site is slashdotted (almost), so here are mirro

[Peridriga]

Odd question?...
But, for a free site that simply runs off banner ads and donations

Why does Slashdot never get Slashdotted?

Sorry just had to ask....