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Blackhat/Defcon Report

Posted by michael on from the neuromancer dept.

Joe Barr writes "NewsForge [ed. note: part of OSTG along with Slashdot] is running its concluding piece on the week-long Blackhat/DEFCON hackerfest in Las Vegas. Want to know how little our police/intelligence agencies seem to have learned from their failures prior to 9/11? Or how a very large goon known only as Priest prevented outright political violence at a DEFCON presentation on Civil Disobedience? Or which of the two conferences is right for you? It's all here in the Blackhat/Defcon: Final report." Reader M. Curphey writes "The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) announced at Blackhat the release of a 'Threat Classifications' document. This document attempts to clarify web security terminology such as Cross Site Scripting, Session Fixation, Cookie poisoning, and HTTP response splitting (to name a few)."

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  1. Re:Hmm... by Maestro4k · · Score: 4, Informative
    • Looks like the 503 Errors with Firefox are really slowing down discussions.
    They're not just in Firefox, they're affecting everyone. Slashdot's been more like SlashNOT this week so far.
  2. Re:Girls by DecoDragon · · Score: 3, Informative

    First off, there are females at DefCon, and not all of them are there, because they think it's an easy place to pick up guys.

    That said, have her look at the program and see if any of the talks are interesting to her. If she knows only a bit, maybe the technical talks won't be that interesting, but the talks that delve into the overlap between politics and technology might be of interest. I'm guessing if she's not that into it, the contests wouldn't be very fun to her.

    If it's not her thing at all, have her look and see if Vegas is something interesting to her, and she can join you later. But, I'd be more inclined to say, if it's not her thing, plan a different trip that both of you would enjoy before or after DefCon.

  3. Re:Hmm... by Cramer · · Score: 4, Informative

    There have been a high number of occurances of 503's since the zero-notice updates a few weeks ago. (at the same time, all web pages started returning "no-cache" so simple brower navigation is forced to redownload every byte on every mouse click. When I logged a bug about this, it was immediately dismissed without comment.)

  4. Here's the bug entry on sourceforge.net by Zeroth_darkos · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta il&aid=1002056&group_id=4421&atid=1044 21