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CNET Warns 'Everything Looks Like A Hack' At DEFCON (cnet.com)
From a CNET report:The hacker convention, which is in its 25th year in Las Vegas, typically has hotels on alert for its three days of Sin City talk, demos and mischief. Guests are encouraged not to pick up any flash drives lying around, and employees are trained to be wary of social engineering -- that is, bad guys pretending to be someone innocent and in need of just a little help. Small acts of vandalism pop up around town. At Caesars Palace, where Defcon is happening, the casino's UPS store told guests it was not accepting any print requests from USB drives or links, and only printing from email attachments. Hackers who saw this laughed, considering that emails are hardly immune from malware. But the message is clear: During these next few days, hackers are going to have their fun, whether it's through a compromised Wi-Fi network or an open-to-tinkering website.
NOTE: CNET also originally reported that the Wet Republic web site "had two images vandalized" with digital graffiti. But their reporter now writes that "my paranoia finally got the best of me, and it turned out to be an ad campaign."
NOTE: CNET also originally reported that the Wet Republic web site "had two images vandalized" with digital graffiti. But their reporter now writes that "my paranoia finally got the best of me, and it turned out to be an ad campaign."
knowing most security experts, probably all out war against basic hygiene and quality interpersonal communication skills
... every year when the vandalism and petty crime convention comes to town.
"During these next few days, hackers are going to have their fun,..."
And the hotels will have much more secure networks.
Afterwards.
'nuff said.
getting on the slot network is the big score even more so when you can print your own tickets off.
Vandalism is so cool. Sounds like a bunch of douche bags to me. Has Defcon even been worth a shit in the last 10 years?
Normal guys are getting some pussy. Meanwhile these dorks are too busy hacking the hotel website.
Here is a hint when you go to Vegas, put the fucking computer away and enjoy a bit of real life.
Obviously.
Has this been confirmed that it isn't a marketing stunt?
Maybe they should have used APK's hosts file engine.
Sure, e-mail can have malware, but who wants to bet maintenance agreements and business insurance care way more about the presence of an industry standard virus scan in the loop? Laugh all you want, hackers. It's not a technical control, it's a business control.
The hotels can refuse to host the convention
I don't want your notifications so don't ask. That and your autoplay video drove me away. Fuck your site.
Figures it'd be CNET (or Wired) or some other 90s giggly "tech media" remnant trumpeting this stunt. These counter-cultural events ceased being relevant about two years after these news outlets began covering them as part of the tech culture. The wannabes diluted the pool, and the legit players all vacated for greener pastures about which they now widely keep mum.
Hackers respond to "all out war" by.. defacing digital images with pirate patches and missing teeth? Not replacing the images with CP or memes? Am I missing something?
Lamest marketing stunt ever.
Because it was clear about the fact it wasn't a hack but part of a planned advertising campaign.
Sig. Sig. Sputnik
It was a a unrelated ad campaing...
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Getting someone to click an .exe .scr .vbs .doc .xls email attachment is not hacking.
Plugging a USB stick into a computer is not hacking.
And this marketing campaign, of which BigbrainDot posted to their front page as an illusion of the scary hacker at Defcon, is definitely not hacking.
What the hell did I just read? Is this one of those marketing pieces disguised as news articles. I knew Black Hat and DEF CON are in a competition to get the coolest talks, but didn't know it was this bad that they need to hype hacking conferences now. OMG the DEF CON hackers are here. Hide yo' kids, hide yo' wife!
I can attest to these statements. Even at that point, the 'hackers' involved with defcon were either 'bottom rung', n00bs, or people who had gone legit (I believe that year or the next was the first of the facebook sponsored after-DefCon drinking party. The fancy digital badges were a few years after that, but nobody sane really wanted to get profiled while we were there. The Alesis Park at that time did't have a huge number of security cameras and facial profiling wasn't as big as today, but it was already a concern, as well as getting your phone tapped by the feds just for visiting.
...because the poster apparently didn't.
It wasn't a hack at all.
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When I did IT at a bank there would always be a security engineer visiting every few months that would place USB sticks around to do some pen-testing. I would just swipe the drives and erase them on my offline Linux laptop that I kept around for wiping infected employee systems.
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