|
|
Rubrik: World-wide News/Products & News DEFCON:
One-Hundred Leading Hackers to Present New Material to Their Peers "DEFCON
12" Takes Place at the Alexis Park in Las Vegas July 30th Through August
1st (28.07.04)
- DEFCON, the largest hacker gathering in the world, announced the agenda for
DEFCON 12, taking place at the Alexis Park in Las Vegas July 30th through
August 1st, 2004. DEFCON is an
annual gathering of 5000 people, bringing together a unique mix of the best
minds from the hacker underground, government agencies, and global
corporations. Speakers
presenting new material on Quantum Hacking, the CIA's Kryptos
Sculpture, Bluesnarfing, Home-Brew Mind Machines, Meet the Feds,
Censorship Resistance, HDTV MYTH Box, Musicians Against the Recording
Industry, Sniffing Wireless Credit Card Transactions, Wireless
Security, and Encrypted Email for Grandma are highlighted below. The full
agenda is available online at www.defcon.org/html/defcon-12/dc-12-schedule.html.
"Twelve
years ago, a unique gathering of hackers, law enforcement, lawyers,
civil libertarians, and journalists was born. That subversive gathering
has evolved into a subversive institution," said Dark Tangent, founder
of DEFCON. "People that were considered threats when we started are now
considered assets protecting critical infrastructure worldwide. I'm
very pleased at DEFCON's evolution and am excited to have what I
consider the best selection and quantity of speakers ever assembled at
an event of its kind." This
year's event will debut more new technical material than ever before.
Significant exploits will be revealed, new freeware releases will be
demonstrated, and new research will be presented. Some of the technical session highlights include: Quantum
Hacking: In Search of a Unified Theory
·
Richard
Thieme, author of the new book "Islands in the Clickstream: Reflections
on Life in a Virtual World", shows how boundaries have morphed, power
has been redefined, and The Matrix is more than a movie. In search of a
unified theory of an emergent multi-nodal cyborg personality and how it
exercises power, Thieme addresses the implications of what it means to be the
network. Cracking
the CIA’s Kryptos Sculpture
·
In a
courtyard at CIA Headquarters stands an encrypted sculpture called Kryptos.
Its thousands of characters contain encoded messages, three of which have
been solved. The fourth part has withstood cryptanalysis for over a decade. The artist who created Kryptos, James
Sanborn, has also created other encrypted sculptures such as the decade-old
Cyrillic Projector, which was cracked last September by an international team
led by Elonka Dunin. Elonka will
go over how the code was cracked, and the current state of knowledge about
the Kryptos sculpture, its own encrypted messages, and its mysterious CIA
surroundings. Elonka currently teaches government agents about cryptography
and what types of codes that Al Qaeda may be using. Bluesnarfing
- Digital Pickpockets
·
Adam
Laurie and Martin Herfurt's presentation on "Bluesnarfing -The Risk
From Digital Pickpockets" will be a real eye-opener for those with
Bluetooth enabled devices. They will
present open flaws in mobile phones including commonly used Nokia, Sony
Ericsson and Motorola models.
They will cover the issues arising out of these flaws, including loss
of personal data, identity theft, phone tapping, tracking, fraud and theft of
service. Home-Brew
Mind Machines
·
Ne0nRa1n
and Jon McClintock will discuss brain-manipulating technologies and give live
hardware demonstrations of high-end mind machines in "Better than Life -
Manipulation of The Human Brain With The Use of Machines." They will
also demonstrate how to build your own home-brew mind machines for ten to
one-hundred dollars. These
machines are a possible alternative medicine to drugs such as Prozac. Meet
the Feds
·
Jim
Christy, an FBI Agent, will lead a discussion with a panel of feds addressing
the computer underground. This event will mix hackers with federal agents,
leading to greater empathy and understanding on both sides of the fence. Censorship
Resistance
·
Rachel
Greenstadt, a DHS Fellow currently researching at Harvard University, will
present "Tools for Censorship Resistance." This talk will enable
the audience to determine what censorship resistance techniques are best
suited for them so they can obtain information they want, say the things they
would like, or communicate with others. The HDTV MYTH Box Wendy
Seltzer, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Seth
Schoen, Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation will
demonstrate an HDTV MYTH box, an HDTV open-source version of the Tivo
that will be illegal to build beginning July 2005, regulated by the FCC
at Hollywood's request. "Hacking the Spectrum: Open Source Software vs.
the Broadcast Flag" will discuss the law and challenges to receiver
regulation, and encourage people to get HDTV decoder cards while they
still can. Musicians
Against the Recording Industry
·
Nathan
Hamiel, will show how the recording industry is no longer needed, in his
presentation, "Down with the RIAA, Musicians against the Recording
Industry." He will include information on how artists can produce their
own music cutting out the recording business. The hassles of the RIAA are no longer an issue. The future
of the music business will also afford more opportunity to artists, leveling
the playing field and decreasing competition between artists. Sniffing
Wireless Credit Card Transactions
·
Robert
"hackajar" Imhoff-Dousharm, a credit card compliancy & fraud
analyst, will present, "Credit Card Networks Revisited: Penetration in
Real-Time." He will walk through the process of identifying credit card
traffic on a network, deciphering packets and propagating rogue credit card
data into a host computer. Windows
WaveSEC Deployment and Wireless Weaponry
·
Paul
Wouters of Xelerance will present a step-by-step “Windows WaveSEC
Deployment.” This will be the
first ever deployment of a truly secure wireless network at DEFCON, the most
hostile wireless territory in the world. In a separate session, The Shmoo
Group, a non-profit think-tank comprised of security professionals from
around the world, will give away new tools to test wireless network security. CryptoMail
- Encrypted E-Mail for Grandma
·
Joshua
Teitelbaum and Peter Leung of CryptoMail.org will be releasing a major
advance in technology, demonstrating the CryptoMail Email System, where users
can transparently and securely communicate with PGP users. About DEFCON DEFCON,
formed in 1992 by Dark Tangent, is the largest hacker gathering in the world.
DEFCON unveils exclusive security information every summer in Las Vegas
during its annual gathering. DEFCON brings together a unique mix of the best
minds from the hacker underground, government agencies, and global
corporations. More information about DEFCON can be found at www.defcon.org DEFCON Web: www.defcon.org |
|
|
|
