Tag: defcon

Hypertwish lets cons spear more phish 
By Darren Pauli | Nov 5, 2012 | Comment Now 
Automated Twitter spear phishing.
 
Marlinspike expands cloud cracking tool 
By Juha Saarinen | Jul 30, 2012 | Comment Now 
Touts web-based protocol cracker at DefCon.
 
US spy agency sponsors DefCon booth 
By Jim Finkle, Joseph Menn | Jul 30, 2012 | Comment Now 
NSA asks hackers to help secure the internet.
 
Mobile charging stations steal data from devices 
By Darren Pauli | Aug 22, 2011 | Comment Now 
USB mode silently comes to life.
 
Oracle employees hand data to hackers 
By Jim Finkle | Aug 9, 2011 | Comment Now 
Security competition.
 
Kids develop hacking skills at Defcon 
 
US government hankers for hackers 
By Tabassum Zakaria | Aug 3, 2011 | Comment Now 
The upsides and downsides of taking a formal hacking role.
 
Combating the dangers of a helpful helpdesk 
By Nate Cochrane | Aug 9, 2010 | Comment Now 
Australia's top social hacker warns operators when to say "no".
 
NBC hack outed at Defcon 
By Iain Thomson | Aug 7, 2007 | Comment Now 
A reporter from NBC Dateline in the US who secretly tried to film hackers at the Defcon conference was outed by organisers and forced to flee the convention.
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