HackRF Jawbreaker Could Bring Low-Cost Wireless Hacking to the Masses

Generations of hobbyists hardware hackers have spent countless hours messing with piles of radio gear, happily tinkering away in garages and basements looking for new ways to connect to people around the world. Now, a researcher has put together a new radio called HackRF that is a kind of...

Researcher Charlie Miller Joins Twitter Security Team

Twitter quietly is assembling a serious security team, with the most recent addition being Charlie Miller, the security researcher known for finding a long line of bugs in the iPhone and other Apple products. Miller, a respected and prolific researcher, will join the social network’s security tea...

DARPA Wants a "Cognitive Fingerprint"

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA is the wellspring of U.S. government technology innovation. Now the agency is looking at what they’ve called a “cognitive fingerprint.” DARPA’s main goal with the project is to bypass what’s become the “current standard method,” for...

Combination of Eyes and Algorithms Wins $50K Prize In DARPA's Shredder Challenge

Scientists for the Pentagon’s far-out research branch, DARPA, weren’t sure that anyone would be able to collect the $50,000 prize when they announced their Shredder Challenge to find ways to reassemble shredded documents just over a month ago. This week – just 33 days later – they had a winner...

DARPA to Hackers: Help, Please?

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA, which is credited with helping to create the modern Internet, used a conference to call on hackers and other visionaries to help save it. DARPA’s Director, Dr. Regina Dugan used a speech at the DARPA Colloquium on Future Directions i...

Pentagon launches "Cyber Fast Track" program to fund hacker innovation

Pentagon launches "Cyber Fast Track" program to fund hacker innovation Peiter Zatko, a hacker known as Mudge who is now at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said he joined the Pentagon's research arm to try and build bridges between the government's cybersecurity needs and hackers...

Pentagon launches "Cyber Fast Track" program to fund hacker innovation

Pentagon launches "Cyber Fast Track " program to fund hacker innovation Peiter Zatko, a hacker known as Mudge who is now at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said he joined the Pentagon's research arm to try and build bridges between the government's cybersecurity needs and hackers...

Pentagon Requests Half Billion in Funding to DARPA

In the Pentagon’s 2012 defense budget request, DARPA stands to receive roughly a half billion dollars in funding to “invest in cybertechnologies.” However, what that means is unclear. The announcement represents growing concerns by the federal government that the United States is sorely...

DARPA Project CINDER Targets Insider Threats

The U.S. military is looking for new ways to identify malicious insiders and stop them from operating from within government and military networks, which it assumes have already been compromised. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPAhttp://www.darpa.mil/ this week issued a call for...

Researchers Can Keep Web Servers Up During Attack

MIT researchers funded by DARPA U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have developed a system to keep web servers — or, for that matter, any Internet-connected computers — running even when they’re under attack. Read the full article. MIT News...

Mudge to Work For Uncle Sam at DARPA

Peiter Zatko — a respected hacker known as “Mudge” — has been tapped to be a program manager at DARPA, where he will be in charge of funding research designed to help give the U.S. government tools needed to protect against cyberattacks. Read the full article. cnet...

Snort <= 2.4.2 Back Orifice Pre-Preprocessor Remote Exploit (3)

No description provided by source. / snort 2.4.0 - 2.4.2 Back Orifice Pre-Preprocessor Remote Exploit by Russell Sanford [email protected] - www.code-junkies.net - Date: Nov 11, 2005 Discription: A buffer overflow exist in the snort pre-preprocessor designed to detect encrypted Back Orifice ping...