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Article | 10/08/2011 Defcon: VoIP makes a good platform for controlling botnets
LAS VEGAS -- Botnets and their masters can communicate with each other by calling into the same VoIP conference call and swapping data using touch ton...
Article | 9/08/2011 Defcon: The lesson of Anonymous? Corporate security sucks
LAS VEGAS -- Anonymous has run up quite a score against corporations, governments and law enforcement agencies, but for all these warnings corporate e...
Article | 30/07/2011 How to survive Black Hat and Defcon without getting hacked -- maybe
Among the thousands of security experts at the Black Hat, Defcon and Security BSides conferences next week in Las Vegas, some will surely test whether...
Article | 17/09/2010 Seven ways social nets like Facebook and LinkedIn are 'truly evil'
NEW YORK -- Social networks are a major resource for hackers trying to capture valuable corporate data or run amok inside business networks, the infor...
Article | 6/09/2010 Women did well on Defcon social engineering test
Of the 135 people Fortune 500 employees targeted by social engineering hackers in a recent contest only five of them refused to give up any corporate ...
Article | 3/08/2010 Secretive group seeks recruits, finds skepticism
A secretive volunteer group that tries to track terrorists and criminals on the Internet went to the Defcon hacker conference this past week in hopes ...
Article | 3/08/2010 How to steal corporate secrets in 20 minutes: Ask
A few companies in the Fortune 500 need to upgrade their Web browsers. And while they're at it, a little in-house training on social engineering would...
Article | 29/07/2010 This year's Defcon badge has a persistent display
It's one of the best things about the Defcon hacking conference, and one of its most closely guarded secrets: the programmable badge that's handed out...
Article | 2/06/2010 Android rootkit is just a phone call away
Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious "rootkit" program they'...
Article | 4/08/2009 Korean 'journalists' booted from Defcon
Four South Korean journalists were booted from the Defcon hacking conference this week after conference organizers decided their story didn't quite ad...
Article | 3/08/2009 Defense Department eyes hacker con for new recruits
The U.S. Air Force has found an unlikely source of new recruits: The yearly Defcon hacking conference, which runs Thursday through Sunday in Las Vegas...

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