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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. Goodbye OSDN, hello OSTG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Goodbye news, hello 503

    is this also the reason for the shitty IT colours?

  2. Doom 3 pirated--news that Slashdot won't report by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gamespot and the BBC are reporting that several thousands of illegal copies of Doom 3 were pirated over the weekend. One technology correspondent estimates that Activision and id Software lost up to "$2,749,500 worth of software at Doom 3's $54.99 sticker price." Activision has no comment, but Matt Pierce of PC Gamer has some harsh words. John Carmack is reportedly not happy. The game is legally scheduled for release today.

    1. Re:Doom 3 pirated--news that Slashdot won't report by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      A: It was posted on slashdot's Beta News section titled "Doom 3 Leaks Out"
      B:They have lost $3million before the game has been released? please, the people who download the game wont affect sales much, either they will buy the game(like they would have before, or might find it better than expected and buy it), or won't because they wouldn't have had it not been for free, or they won't like the game and not buy it cause of that.

  3. Doom 3 pirated--news that Slahsdot won't report by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gamespot and the BBC are reporting that several thousands of illegal copies of Doom 3 were pirated over the weekend, shaping up to be one of the most pirated pieces of software of all time. One technology correspondent estimates that Activision and id Software lost up to "$2,749,500 worth of software at Doom 3's $54.99 sticker price." Activision has no comment, but Matt Pierce of PC Gamer has some harsh words. John Carmack is reportedly not happy. The game is legally scheduled for release today.