Wired Reports On Korea's First Hacker Con

evanwired writes "Quinn Norton offers a great first-hand account of the first South Korean Hacker con. Marked by conservative dress and polite conversation, the group was nevertheless still very much concerned with the shortcomings of computer security." From the article: "A police crackdown three years ago left South Korea's hacking community broken and fragmented. One of the conference's more animated speakers, 'Xpl017Elz,' complained that many of Korea's best and brightest hackers wound up emigrating to more receptive environments with better pay for security researchers. But he also demonstrated a large and difficult divide between how the hacker communities behave in Korea and the United States. Xpl017Elz's presentation focused on four (of a reported seven) attacks he developed against Red Hat's Fedora Core using ExecShield. He demonstrated privilege escalation, where a logged-in user can become root and take over the machine, and remote code execution, wherein an external attacker can gain root without a login."

Comments

His name is Xpl017Elz?

[glen]

Did he get confused when someone explained to him what a secure password is and you shouldn't use your name?

Re:His name is Xpl017Elz?

[hclyff]

Yeah, I wonder what were his parents smoking, giving him a name like this...

Re:conspiracy theory

[winkydink]

Um, perhaps you have your "all Stallman, all the time" filter on? All the thumbs work for me.