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Security World Hits Las Vegas For a Week of Hacking, Cracking, Fun (theregister.co.uk)
About a quarter of a century ago, a handful of hackers decided to have a party in a cheap hotel, and had a whale of a time. Fast forward to 2018, and that get-together has grown into events that will see an estimated 30,000 people converge on Las Vegas for the biggest security shindig in the world -- the combination of Black Hat USA, DEF CON and BSidesLV. From a report: While that first gathering morphed into the DEF CON hacking conference, the biggest event is Black Hat USA, which began on Saturday, and runs through until Thursday, August 9. This is the flashy corporate brother of DEF CON, and features four days of security training, a one-day invite-only CISO summit day (from which press are strictly barred) and two days of briefings featuring everything from government agents to hardcore hackers talking about the tricks of the trade. Although they have a shared origin -- DEF CON founder Jeff Moss also set up Black Hat USA -- these days, DEF CON and Black Hat USA are run and operated separately. We've previously described the behind-the-scenes and arduous task of setting up and maintaining computer networks for attendees of hacker conventions.
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..to turn off your Wifi and bluetooth on your phones before you enter.
Are they publishing the latest backdoors, the new ones installed by their patch for the _last_ set of backdoors?
I'm sorry to see them failing this way, because they have a long history of robust equipment. But I'm afraid that Cisco has made the "put in new backdoors with each release" mistake too many times to think it is anything other than malice. I'm afraid that they are deliberately cooperating with security agencies who've been caught too often performing unconstitutional and even criminal monitoring of entirely innocent traffic with no criminal or national security reason to do so.
>We've previously described the behind-the-scenes and arduous task of setting up and maintaining computer networks for attendees of hacker conventions.
If there was only some technical way you could remind us where the information is located!
Ugh can you imagine being a Vegas hooker this week. They probably tip like shit too
Sooooo, after how many years of how important security is, we still getting pwned by people all over the world?
Failed security systems... failed to implement any security strategy, just so they can keep making money off of the companies that buy âoeSecurity Productsâ lol
Nevermind that "hacker" used to be a merit badge, never a self-assigned sign of bad-assery. Nevermind that "hacking" doesn't mean squat any longer, it's just a scareword devoid of direct meaning. Those are all true and all deep problems typically ignored even by would-be computer security improvers. Nevermind the bickering and arguing about who is to be allowed to "hack" whom, just because of their emperor's hat colour or "ethicality", something nobody knows how to ascertain because nobody can agree what it really is.
This here is simply a bunch of people knowingly telling the world "we're criminals" using the usual idiot slang, and this is somehow okay because...? No matter how you look at it, the computer security industry is rotten to the core and sells bullshit. Even the best of them are essentially kids refusing to grow up. How the hell does anybody expect to get decent security out of this?
I thought this news article was interesting about the Clintons and Russia. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0... Interesting thing about the Dems is typically they point fingers at others and place blame for their own misconduct. #HillaryforPrison2020
You should of been there the year john mcafee invited a bunch of these security guys to the hustler strip club. The girls were charging something like $250-300 dollars for a 15 minute lap dance. They don't deserve tips at that rate, it's borderline robbery. I got out of there after I figured out I couldn't get free drinks and $20 dollar lap dances.
Traveled half world to attend DEF CON 22 and it was a great experience. Saw some interesting conferences, learned how to lockpick, new hacking techniques, social engineering skills, met great people (including Kevin Mitnick) and, of course, party hard for 3 days! Thanks to all who made DEF CON possible all this years.
Well, the word "crack" in some parts of this country means "sex" (as a verb), so I assume from the summary that some of that will be going on.
Wtf part is that? Crack on the streets means rock cocaine. Learn 2 ghetto.