LulzSec's Leader Sabu can be at DefCon Security conference

LulzSec's Leader Sabu can be at DefCon Security conference LulzSec's Leader Sabu can be at DefCon Security conference in Las Vegas these days. According to a Article on PCMag , Author note some Tweet chat Between "Sabu" and "th3j35t3r". The LulzSec leader Sabu claimed to have been available in...

Live in Vegas: Latest from Black Hat and DEFCON

UPDATED: The Black Hat Briefings and DEFCON hacker shows hadn’t even gotten under way before making news. Even before braving the 115 degree heat of the Las Vegas strip, researchers have been pulling the covers off their work in recent weeks, and Threatpost has been there, reporting on new method...

Legal Threat Pushes Former HBGary Federal CEO Out Of DEFCON

Former HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr says he will withdraw from a planned appearance at the DEFCON conference in the face of threatened legal action over his plans to take part in a panel discussion there. Barr notified DEFCON organizers on Wednesday that he was withdrawing from the Aug. 6 panel...

BackTrack 5 Release 1 will be available on 10th of August,2011

BackTrack 5 Release 1 will be available on 10th of August,2011 BackTrack 5 R1 Release one will be available for download on the 10th of August,2011. This will complete our first 3 month cycle since the last release. With over 100 bug fixes, numerous package updates and the addition of over 30 new...

Hacking Millions of Routers by Craig Heffner

After attending several DEFCON events, I am thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at DEFCON 18. My presentation titled "How to Hack Millions of Routers" aims to shed light on prevalent security vulnerabilities. I will also take this opportunity to answer frequently asked questions and...

Project Vigilant Attempts to Recruit at Def Con

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 of recruiting information security experts, but it will first have to overcome some skepticism. Read the full article. IDG News Service...

Def Con 18 In Images

Roughly 10,000 computer hacking enthusiasts, poseurs, geeks, nerds and government agents gathered for DefCon this weekend. In its 18th year, the world’s largest hacker convention draws people from all walks of life to learn about the latest hacking techniques. Read the full article. Wired...

Mobile Devices Drawing More Attackers' Attention

As mobile devices such as iPhones, BlackBerrys, Android phones and others have become more sophisticated and easy to use, many users have made them their main computing and Web-browsing devices. And that evolution naturally has caught the attention of attackers who have begun tailoring more and...

GSM Network Weakness Exposed at DEFCON

A hardware hacking expert here at Defcon18 successfully faked several attendees’ cell phones into connecting to his phony GSM base station during a live demonstration that had initially raised concerns at the Federal Communications Commission FCC. Read the full article. Dark Reading...

Android Rootkit Demonstrated at DEFCON

IT security researchers Nicholas Percoco and Christian Papathanasiou demonstrated what they claim is the first rootkit for Android. Their aim was to show how slight the obstacles to the development of a such a rootkit are and how powerful the result can be. Read the full article. The H Security...

Whizzy CMS 10.02 - Local File Inclusion

x Type: Local File Inclusion x Vendor: www.unverse.net x Script Name: Whizzy CMS x Script Version: 10.02 x Script DL: http://code.google.com/p/whizzy/downloads/list x Author: Anarchy Angel x Mail : anarchydotang31@gmaildotcom Exploit: http://site.org/?LFI Ex:...

Researcher to Show Off GSM Intercept Attack at Defcon

At the Defcon conference later this week, Chris Paget, a well-known security researcher who focuses on wireless and RFID issues, will give a demonstration of a technique that enables him to intercept calls made on GSM wireless handsets without any interaction with the user’s handset. The techniqu...

Android Rootikit To Be Shown at DefCon

Researchers have developed a kernel-level Android rootkit in the form of a loadable kernel module and will demonstrate the proof of concept exploit at the upcoming DefCon conference. Read the demo statement. DefCon.org...

ScribeFire Firefox Extension - Privileged Code Injection

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2WIRE Gateway - Authentication Bypass Password Reset (1)

2WIRE Gateway - Authentication Bypass Password Reset 1 2WIRE GATEWAY AUTHENTICATION BYPASS & PASSWORD RESET 08/04/09 ============================================================== DESCRIPTION ----------------- There is an authentication bypass vulnerability in page=CD35SETUP01 that allows you to...

2WIRE Gateway Authentication Bypass & Password Reset Vulnerabilities

Exploit for hardware platform in category remote exploits ==================================================================== 2WIRE Gateway Authentication Bypass & Password Reset Vulnerabilities ==================================================================== 2WIRE GATEWAY AUTHENTICATION...

2WIRE Gateway Authentication Bypass & Password Reset

2WIRE GATEWAY AUTHENTICATION BYPASS & PASSWORD RESET ==================================================== DESCRIPTION ----------------- There is an authentication bypass vulnerability in page=CD35SETUP01 that allows you to set a new password even if the password was previously set. By setting a n...

Joe Grand on the DEFCON Badge, Hacking Parking Meters and the Hazards of Security Research

Dennis Fisher talks with Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio about the design for this year’s DEFCON badge, the secret feature he added that no one has uncovered yet and his research on hacking smart parking meters. Download SHOW NOTES: Hacking The Defcon 2009 Badge Subscribe to the Digital Undergroun...

Scenes from Black Hat and Defcon 2009

See photos taken from Black Hat 2009 and Defcon, both held last week in Las Vegas, Nev...

DEFCON: CSRF Attacks Made Easy

LAS VEGAS — The security of social networking sites isn’t as bad as you think. In fact, it’s much worse. Sites such as Twitter, Facebook and others that rely heavily on user-generated content, shared content and aggregation have been the targets of increasingly sophisticated attacks over the last...