DEF CON 15 Archive

Speakers

A


• Agent X
• Iftach Ian Amit
• Ofir Arkin
• atlas


B


• Kevin Bankston
• Andrea Barisani
• John Benson
• Peter Berghammer
• Daniele Bianco
• Sean M. Bodmer
• Sam Bowne
• Sergey Bratus
• Taylor Brinton
• David Byrne


C


• D.J. Capelis
• Jim Christy
• Patrick Chung
• Anton Chuvakin
• Maria Cirino
• Robert W. Clark
• Greg Conti
• Crispin Cowan


D


• Jesse D'Aguanno
• The Dark Tangent
• Rick Deacon
• Dead Addict
• Delchi
• Jared DeMott
• Ganesh Devarajan
• Deviant Ollam
• Roger Dingledine
• Toralv Dirro
• Jerry Dixon
• I)ruid
• Steve Dunker


E


• Peter Eckersley
• Luiz Eduardo
• Dr. Richard Enbody
• Joel Eriksson
• Nathan S. Evans
• Gadi Evron


F


• Ben Feinstein
• Matt Fiddler
• Tim Fowler
• Zac Franken
• Andy Fried


G


• Kenneth Geers
• geoffrey
• Dave Goldsmith
• Damian Gomez
• K N Gopinath
• Joe Grand
• Jennifer Granick
• Thomas Grasso
• Christian Grothoff
• Lukas Grunwald
• Barry Gundy
• Peter Gutmann
• David Gustin


H


• Ian G. Harris
• John Heasman
• Aaron Higbee
• Ricky Hill
• Marcia Hofmann
• Greg Hoglund
• Dr. Thomas J. Holt
• Broward Horne
• David Hulton
• Bob Hopper
• Dan Hubbard


I


• Jon Iadonisi


J


• Mike Jacobs
• Karl Janmar
• Luke Jennings
• Dave Josephsen


K


• Dan Kaminsky
• Vitaliy Kamlyuk
• Patrik Karlsson
• King Tuna
• Dirk Kollberg
• Tim Kosiba
• Benjamin Kurtz
• Lee Kushner


L


• Mickey Lasky
• Bob Lentz
• Edward Lee
• Janne Lindqvist
• David Litchfield
• Johnny Long
• Myles Long
• Marce Luck


M


• Kevin Manson
• Marklar
• Rich Marshall
• Nick Mathewson
• David Maynor
• Nathan McFeters
• Mark McGovern
• Haroon Meer
• Charlie Miller
• Doug Mohney
• H.D. Moore
• David Mortman
• Scott Moulton
• Shawn Moyer
• Alexander Muentz
• Rich Murphey
• Mike Murray


N


• Brett Neilson
• Ne0nRa1n
• Noid
• Claes Nyberg


O


• Christer Öberg
• Danny O'Brien
• Brendan O'Connor
• Robert O'Hara
• Kurt Opsahl
• Steve Orrin
• Alfredo Ortega


P


• Chris Palmer
• Daniel Peck
• Mike Perry
• Aaron Peterson
• Pilgrim
• Plet
• Bruce Potter
• Ken Privette
• Paul Proctor
• Dr. Bill Punch


Q


• Danny Quist


R


• Aviv Raff
• Vivek Ramachandran
• Renderman
• Keith Rhodes
• Matt Richard
• Billy Rios
• Ian Robertson
• Martyn Ruks


S


• Tony Sager
• Oskar Sandberg
• Michael Schearer
• Bruce Schneier
• Michael Schrenk
• Ari Schwartz
• Jason Scott
• Dror Shalev
• Zed A. Shaw
• Marco Slaviero
• David C. Smith
• Window Snyder
• Julian Spillane
• Squidly1
• Alex Stamos
• Robert Stoudt
• Tom Stracener
• Subere
• Sysmin


T


• Tatsumori
• Richard Thieme
• Thorn
• theprez98
• Marc Weber Tobias
• Steve Topletz
• Schuyler Towne


V


• Valsmith
• Randal Vaughn
• Paul Vixie
• Mario Vuksan
  
  W
  
  
• Linton Wells
• Jacob West
• Thomas Wilhelm
• Christian Wirth


Y


• Dov Yoran


Z


• Paul Sebastian Ziegler
• Matt Zimmerman
• Philip R. Zimmermann

Highlights

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DefCon 15 Program

Contest Results

Audio/Video RSS Feeds

DEF CON 15 Website

Press Coverage

Badges

• Badge Hack at DefCon - Wired News

Banks

• Security Bites Podcast: Defeating online banking security - Cnet News
• How phishers defeat online banking controls - Cnet News
• New Bank Practices Make Hacking Easier - Dark Reading

CTF

• Capture the Experience - Dark Reading

Cyber War

• Flash mob in Estonia - Cnet News

Disclosure

• The Vulnerability Disclosure Game: Are We More Secure? - CSO Magazine
• Hackers Welcome - Forbes

E-voting

• E-Voting Certification Gets Security Completely Backward - Wired News

Feds

• Hackers sought as allies in war on terrorism and cyber crim - AFP
• I Married a Fed at DefCon - Wired News

General

• Defcon 2007 Mayhem, mystery and marriage - TG Daily
• In defense of Black Hat and Defcon - Cnet News
• Black Hat 'supersizes' in Las Vegas - Cnet News
• Letter From Hackerdom: Not the Same Old DEF CON, Black Hat - Washington Post Blog
• Hackers, researchers gather for Black Hat, Defcon conventions - Mercury News
• Basics: Black Hat Briefings and Defcon 15 - Mercury News
• Takahashi: Foes mingle at Las Vegas hacking conferences - Mercury News
• Takahashi: Good hackers and bad¬†(53%) - Mercury News
• The romance and mystery of a good hack - The Register
• Hacking for hijinks - The Register
• A Defcon survival guide - The Register
• Forbes Offers a Sympathetic Portrayal of Hackers - Slashdot
• The past is prologue at Black Hat Briefings - Government Computer News
• L0pht in Transition - CSO Magazine
• DefCon Recap - Dark Reading
• How to Land the Best Security Job - Dark Reading
• Overheard at DefCon - Security Focus
• Black Hat wrap-up: Less hackers, but plenty of flaws - SC Magazine
• Educating hackers and defenders Hindu - Business Line
• Podcast: News to know midday: Fake Steve; New iMac; DEF CON flap revisited - ZD Net
• Top 10 geek vacations, Part II - InfoWorld

Germany

• Hacker space movement sought for U.S. - Wired Blog
• Germany enacts 'anti-hacker' law - The Register

Honeypots

• Websense to Unveil Web 2.0 Threat Detection at Defcon - PC Magazine
• Websence Protects Web 2.0 - ABC News
• Websense to Unveil Web 2.0 Threat Detection at Defcon - Eweek
• DEF CON - Websense lures Web 2.0 attackers with HoneyJax - Network World

iPhone

• Iphone partially unlocked - TG Daily
• Will the iPhone be iPwned? - Security Focus

Lock Picking

• Picking locks the old-school way - Wired News
• Medeco Readies Assembly-Line Fix for DefCon Lock Hack - Wired News
• Ultra-High Security Locks Used by White House Easily Opened by 12-Year Old Girl - InfoWorld
• Lockpicking for Geekkids - Wired Blog
• White House High-Security Locks Broken: Bumped and Picked at DefCon - Wired News
• Hackers click locks open at conference in US - AFP
• The Study of Physical Hacks at DefCon - Slashdot
• Anti-theft technology - Government Computer News
• Simple Hack Can Unlock Most Any Office Door - CSO Magazine

Malware

• Polymorphic Malware: A Threat That Changes on the Fly - CSO Magazine

Media Players

• Researcher: Media players have critical flaws - MSNBC
• Researcher: media players invite malware - ABC News

NBC Undercover

• How an undercover NBC reporter was outed by hackers - Salon.com
• Defcon: Hacks, Lies, and Videotape - Cio-Today
• Dateline Mole Allegedly at DefCon with Hidden Camera -- Updated: Mole Caught on Tape - Wired News
• Defcon drama: Undercover reporter bolts after outing - Cnet News
• Middle America, Meet The Hacker - Forbes
• Exposed undercover reporter flees hackers conference - AFP
• Undercover 'Dateline' Reporter Outed, Flees from Defcon - PC Magazine
• Undercover TV Producer Bootd from DefCon - ABC News
• NBC muckraker gets hacked at Defcon - The Register
• Dateline NBC Mole Outed At Defcon - Slashdot
• DefCon: Hacking meetup infiltrated by Dateline 'media mole' - CIO Magazine
• Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEF CON 2007 - ZD Net
• DefCon's Moss: Undercover Reporter Damages 'Neutral Zone' - Information Week
• NBC Dateline's "Catch a Predator" Series Pays Cops and Undercover "Victims" -- UPDATED - Wired News

Rootkits

• The Great Rootkit Debate - Dark Reading

SCADA

• Hacker shows flaw in software that controls key infrastructure - Computer Crime Research Center
• America's Hackable Backbone - Forbes
• Researcher worries about cyber-hijackers - MSNBC
• Hacker shows flaw in software that controls key infrastructure - Mercury News

Social Networks

FaceBook

• FaceBook code leaked on Site - ABC News

MySpace

• Hackers: Networking Sites Flawed - The St. Petersburg Times
• - Hackers: Social Networking Sites Flawed Fox
• Hackers: Social networks vulnerable - USA Today
• MySpace weakness patched, hacker's profile deleted - AFP
• Myspace Hacker's Profile Deleted - ABC News
• Morning Buzz: Aug. 6, 2007 - U.S. News and World Report

Speakers

Sam Bowne

• Teaching hacking helps students, professors say - Security Focus
• Teaching hacking helps students, professors say - Dark Reading

Zac Franken

• 2 Screws, 1 Plastic Cover, How Many Airports Infiltrated? - Eweek
• Open Sesame: Access Control Hack Unlocks Doors - Wired News
• Access Card Systems -- Trivially Vulnerable - Washington Post Blog

Lukas Grunwald

• Buffer Overflow Found in RFID Passport Readers - Slashdot
• Arphid Watch: A Passport Crashing Technique - Wired Blog
• Scan this guy's e-passport and watch your system crash - ABC News

Thomas Holt

• An Inside Look at Internet Attackers' Black Marke - PCWorld
• Online Crooks Fine-tune Selling of Malware - CIO India
• An Inside Look at Internet Attackers' Black Market - ABC News
• Black market for malware a thriving place - The Register
• Malware: Serious Business - Dark Reading

Mikko Hyyponen

• There's hope for stopping mobile malware - InfoWorld

Charlie Miller

HD Moore

• Hacking Without Exploits - Dark Reading

Scott Moulton

• A Visit to the Drive Doctor - Dark Reading

Vendors

AirDefense

• New Wireless Security Threats Revealed at Defcon 15 - Government Technology
• AirDefense Makes New Detection And Protection Methods Available to Customers - Networkcomputing

AirTight

• AirTight Revealed Potent Variant of Evil Twin at DEF CON 15 - Web Services Journal NJ

AMD

• Is AMD's 65nm SOI process broken? - ZD Net

Finjan

• Finjan Identifies Important Vulnerability in Windows Vista's Contact Gadget, Leading to a Security Update Issued by Microsoft - ITNews Italy

Immunity

• Exploits in the Fast Lane - Dark Reading
• Security firm makes it easy to come up with attack code - ComputerWorld UK
• Defcon: Security firm automates generation of attack code - ComputerWorld
• Immunity releases new exploit-writing tool - ComputerWeeklyUK
• Security firm makes it easy to come up with attack code - Tech World
• Security firm makes it easy to come up with attack cod - ComputerWorld UK
• Defcon: Security firm automates generation of attack code - ComputerWorld
• Immunity releases new exploit-writing tool - ComputerWeeklyUK
• Immunity releases new exploit-writing tool - Search Security
• Immunity says debugger tool will cut zero-day attacks - ComputerWeeklyUK
• Immunity Unleashes Automatic Exploit Tool - PC Magazine
• Securty Firm Autmates Attack Code Generation - ABC News
• Defcon: Security firm automates generation of attack code - CIO Magazine

ISEC

• How to break forensics software - The Inquirer
• Researcher: media players invite malware - USA Today

Microsoft

• Microsoft to update critical Windows, Office, flaws. - Search Security

Mozilla

• Mozilla: 10-Day Patch Guarantee 'Not our Policy' - IDG News Service

Wall of Sheep

• net.wars: Wall of sheep - Newswireless.com

Web Hacking

• Browsing the Intranet Problem - Dark Reading
• Internet Explorer and Your Web Site's Privac - Washington Post Blog
• Hackers bite into "cookies" to plunder user data from websites - AFP

Wi-Fi

• Wi-Fi hot spots are easy prey for hackers - Detroit Free Press
• Your Wi-Fi can tell people a lot about you - Cnet News
• Public Wi-Fi use raises hacking risk - USA Today
• Flash: Public Wi-Fi even more insecure than previously thought - The Register
• DEF CON to Demo New Wi-Fi Hacks - Security News Portal

Xerobank

• XeroBank Launches Anonymizing Tool Suite - Dark Reading