Samy Kamkar's ProxyGambit Picks Up for Defunct ProxyHam

Without fail in the weeks leading up to Black Hat and DEF CON, there are inevitably talks that are either pulled by organizers, cancelled by presenters, or strong suggestions are made that the talks don’t happen. This year’s first casualty, Ben Caudill’s scheduled DEF CON demonstration of ProxyHa...

How to Anonymously Access Wi-Fi from 2.5 Miles Away Using This Incredible Device

Anonymity is something that seems next to impossible in this era of government surveillance. Even Tor and VPNs are no longer seem to be enough to protect user privacy. Once your IP address is discovered, your Game Over! However, a method have been devised that not only allow users to anonymously...

Memory Corruption Bug Patched in Blackphone Silent Text App

Blackphone and Silent Circle have patched a serious vulnerability in Silent Text, the messaging application bundled with the smartphone that’s marketed as secure and surveillance resistant. Mark Dowd, a prominent security researcher and founder of Azimuth Security, on Tuesday disclosed details of...

OpenGraphiti: Data Visualization Engine

OpenGraphiti is a free and open source 3D data visualization engine for data scientists to visualize semantic networks and to work with them. It offers an easy-to-use API with several associated libraries to create custom-made datasets. It leverages the power of GPUs to process and explore the da...

Blackphone Bug Bounty Program Launches on Bugcrowd

During DEF CON in August, Twitter became the preferred medium for submitting bugs found in secure smartphone Blackphone, including one high-profile claim on the social network that the phone had been rooted. That wasn’t the final straw that led to today’s announcement of a bug bounty, rather it w...

Blackphone DEF CON Vulnerabilities Difficult to Exploit

If ever there was a hacking story screaming for clarity, it’s the Blackphone saga that unfolded during DEF CON. First off, yes, the device was rooted by a researcher who goes by the handle Justin Case @TeamandIRC on Twitter—but not in five minutes as has been previously reported. Yes, it requires...

Researcher to Demonstrate Poor SSL Implementations Using Pineapple WiFi

A leading provider of advanced threat, security and compliance solutions, Tripwire, has announced that Craig Young, a security researcher from its Vulnerability and Exposure Research Team VERT, is working on a paper about SSL vulnerabilities that will be presented at DEF CON 22 Wireless Village...

FTC Asking DEF CON to Help Catch Robocallers

The United States Federal Trade Commission is sick and tired of illegal robocalling, and it’s hosting a contest this year at the DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas in an attempt to do something about it. The consumer protection agency’s weariness likely stems from the more than 150,000...

DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Finale Set For DEF CON 2016

DARPA’s announcement last October that it would sponsor a $2 million contest, challenging academics and security industry stalwarts to come up with an automated network defense system, has already attracted 35 entrants and a high-profile venue to stage the tournament finale. The final stage of th...

vBulletin Zero Day Used to Hack MacRumors, vBulletin

A hacker group calling itself Inj3ct0r is taking responsibility for the compromise of more than 860,000 passwords at MacRumors.com as well as a separate attack on vBulletin.com, makers of the vBulletin software powering a number of high-profile forums including MacRumors and Ubuntu Forums. The...

Major Companies Fall Victim to Social Engineering

The annual Social Engineering Capture the Flag contest held during DEF CON may seem on the surface to be just an opportunity for pen-testers and hackers to flex their pretexting muscles. But if you’re one of the 10 major technology, manufacturing and critical infrastructure organizations targeted...

How to Fail at Black Hat

Every summer, the hacker intelligentsia descends on Las Vegas like a swarm of thirsty locusts that spends seven days chasing free drinks and avoiding sunlight at all costs. Black Hat and DEF CON week can be an overwhelming and confusing experience, especially for the uninitiated or agoraphobic. B...

Verizon Network Extender femtocell hack intercepts calls

A $250 piece of hardware known as a femtocell, used to boost mobile phone signals for consumers and small businesses, is vulnerable to a complete takeover that attackers can use to intercept Internet traffic and cell phone calls. Two researchers from iSEC Partners are expected to provide more...

Dennis Fisher Talks With Chris Soghoian on NSA, PRISM and Privacy

Dennis Fisher talks with Chris Soghoian of the ACLU about the NSA surveillance leaks, the PRISM data collection program, the lack of good privacy options for consumers and his upcoming talk at DEF CON on government hacking operations. Download: digitalunderground118...

Mixed Reaction to DEF CON Ban of Feds

For over two decades DEF CON has been an open nexus of hacker culture, a place where seasoned pros, hackers, academics, and feds can meet, share ideas and party on neutral territory. Our community operates in the spirit of openness, verified trust, and mutual respect. When it comes to sharing and...

Hacker going to demonstrate open source tool to crack Hashes with speed of 154 Billion/sec

Bitweasil lead developer going to Demonstrate an open source Tool called "Cryptohaze" at DEF CON 20. The Cryptohaze Multiforcer supports CUDA, OpenCL, and CPU code SSE, AVX, etc. All of this is aimed at either the pentester who can't spray hashes to the internet, or the hacker who would rather no...

Call for Paper - DEF CON Rajasthan March 2012 Meet

Call for Paper - DEF CON Rajasthan March 2012 Meet DEF CON Rajasthan - March 2012 Jaipur Meet, Call For Papers is now officially Open and will close on March 10, 2012. DEF CON Rajasthan DC91141 is a DEF CON Registered group of people interested in exploring technology and it implications in...

DEF-CON Chennai January Meet 2012

DEF-CON Chennai Group DEF-CON Chennai Group 4th meet successfully was held this past weekend on 29th Jan at Le Waterina Resort, Chennai. Team THN also join this Event, It was a nice setup. "We like to thank each and everyone who attended this meet and made it a success story. We like to thank all...

Invitation for DEF-CON Chennai January Meet 2012 (DC602028)

Invitation for DEF-CON Chennai January Meet 2012 DC602028 We like to invite all of you for our 4th meet which is going to held on 29th January 2012. DEF-CON Chennai is a registered group of DEF-CON, our group id is DC602028. Tickets for the Meet For General Public : 700 INR For Students: 600 INR ...

Invitation for DEF-CON Chennai January Meet 2012 (DC602028)

Invitation for DEF-CON Chennai January Meet 2012 DC602028 We like to invite all of you for our 4th meet which is going to held on 29th January 2012. DEF-CON Chennai is a registered group of DEF-CON, our group id is DC602028. Tickets for the Meet For General Public : 700 INR For Students: 600 INR ...