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."

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First Korean conference? More than Six years ago!

[gessel]

Trust Wired to get it wrong. The magic of subjective journalism. It is ironic that another /. article describes how the blogosphere is becoming recognized as unreliable.

I was a speaker there in August 2000 at the First WorldWide Top Hackers Conference 'IS2K' in Seoul Korea at the Millennium Hotel. We spoke for several days and even got to meet Kim Hyong-O, the Member of the National Assembly.