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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: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.)

  3. 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