More than five million security alerts were recorded during 16 days of Olympic competition, according to Atos Origin, the company managing the Games' IT.< . . .
Embedded systems designers attending next week's Embedded Systems Conference, Boston, can see Trusted Computing components and applications in action and learn how to design in security based on Trusted Computing specifications. . . .
Source: Robert Lemos, CNET News.com - Posted by John Kim
Sendmail has taken a first stab at software to authenticate the source of e-mail messages, a technology that will be key to preventing the proliferation of spam. The company released a module for its Sendmail e-mail server software that attempts to verify the source of messages to help Internet users block mail from unwanted senders. . . .
In a post-9/11 world, even the computers that run the Olympics have color-coded warnings for threats. "Green is good. Red is very bad," says Jean Chevallier, executive vice president of Atos Origin, Paris-based head of the Games' $400 million information system. In between are yellow (mild) and orange (more alarming). Halfway through the Athens Olympics, the worst anyone has seen here is "a light yellow," Chevallier says. . . .
Capture the flag might be only a game, but it was serious business at DefCon, the world's largest annual computer hacker convention. For 36 straight hours, eight teams of experienced hackers and serious security professionals played predator and prey as they tried to hack into competitors' networks while defending their own. . . .
Source: lasvegascitylife.com - Posted by David Isecke
In the truest sense, hacking is not an act; rather, it is a viewpoint, a set of tools for thinking about how to interact with systems. The late Judith Milhon, one of the first female hackers ever, defined hacking as "the clever circumvention of imposed limits." The early hackers at MIT and Stanford had limited access to the huge, expensive mainframes on which they worked, and so they devised clever and exotic ways both to gain more time and make their programming time more efficient. . . .
Stephen Wozniak, a founder of Apple Computer, was speaking to the choir Saturday at a conference in Midtown Manhattan, recalling an era when the word "hackers" referred to technological wizards, not rogue computer users... Mr. Wozniak described his relationship with John T. Draper, a man who became known as "Captain Crunch" 35 years ago when he showed how a plastic whistle that came in Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes could be used to manipulate the national phone system. . . .
ISECOM, is hosting a forum and exhibition on October 16, 2004 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as part of their security event specifically for open source developers, thinkers, creators, and drivers of privacy and security. Details are available on the ISESTORM website http://www.isestorm.org. . . .
THG regularly covers LAN Parties, during which gamers drink, socialize and, of course, play games. However, hackers and other technology professionals have also been doing this for several years at conventions such as Defcon, Toorcon and more recently at (LayerOne) the first annual LayerOne conference June 12-13 at the Westin Hotel near the Los Angeles International Airport. . . .
Registration for the DefCon 12 WarDriving Contest is now open. For the first time ever the Def Con WarDriving contest will be divided into two parts. A "Main Drive" that will run for the entire three days and four "Mini-Games" that allow contestants that would like to participate but do not want to invest the entire Con in WarDriving. . . .
