The people behind the Humble Introversion Bundle have announced that, as a reward for the fact that the package has managed to generate more than half a million dollars in revenue (about 400,000 Euro) they have added a new game, Dungeons of Dredmor, to the original offer.The new game is dungeon crawler with a humorou... |
30 November 2011
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At this year's Defcon conference, researchers from Social Engineer tested the reactions of 14 companies to see how fast they give in to social engineering attempts. The results show that sooner or later most organizations fail.
As it turns out, businesses that deal with customers in retail settings tended to be... |
1 November 2011
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Last week hackers flocked to Las Vegas to attend the biggest annual hacking conference in the world, DEFCON, and at least one of them claims that he detected a large scale CMDA and 4G surveillance operation that targeted attendees indiscriminately.The claim was made in a post to the Full Disclosure mailing list yeste... |
11 August 2011
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DEFCON attendants had a chance to play "spot the hacktivist" this weekend, as both LulzSec leader Sabu and The Jester claimed to be at the world's top hacker conference.It all started on Friday when Sabu tweeted "#FEDS #DEFCON Vendor room. Across from NO STARCH PRESS. I'm in the area. Find me and you get 0d... |
8 August 2011
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Security researchers from Trustwave's SpiderLabs released at the DEFCON hackers conference a rootkit for the Android mobile operating system. The malicious application, which can give attackers full control over the devices, functions as a kernel module making it extremely powerful and stealthy.A rootkit is a pr... |
2 August 2010
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A judge lifted the gag order that restricted three MIT students from going public with their findings on the flaws in the fare payment system of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Agency (MBTA). Judge George O'Toole ruled that the students' approach was entirely scientific and that they did not intend to ... |
20 August 2008
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Participants at the DefCon hacking conference, focusing on the latest methods of taking over end users' computers and corporate machines, found out that they had been subjects to a hijack themselves. According to an AFP report, the attendees at the conference were startled by the statements of Tony Kapela and Al... |
13 August 2008
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Three American students were restricted by a court of law from presenting the results of a study made on the possibilities to perform some easy hacks on the fare payment system of the Boston subway. The three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) wanted to prove, at this year's DEFCON hacke... |
11 August 2008
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Introversion is announcing that it has entered a partnership with a film production company, called 1066 Productions, and with the television network Channel 4, based in the United Kingdom, to produce a videogame that will be titled Chronometer.Chris DeLay, lead producer at Introversion, has detailed the process that... |
9 July 2008
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What better location where you can have unrestricted fun than Sin City? There isn't a promiscuous thing you can't find there. So the same location as last year was elected by DefCon organizers. The hotel however was a different one.1995's location for the conference was the Tropicana Hotel. A larger au... |
1 July 2007
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July, 22, 1994, Las Vegas. 13 years have passed since then. A lot of events have happened that day, like O.J. Simpson pleading "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" or IBM's unveiling of OpenDoc Alpha for OS/2, or CNBC expanding the deal with Prodigy. But apart from these events, another one was available for a more rest... |
16 June 2007
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A lot of the DEFCON mystery has dissipated into thin air since the first conference took place. Back in 1993, holding a hacker's rendez-vous definitely led people into thinking that there was more to it than shown. But, since then, a lot has changed and the media always gets its way around the conferences, repo... |
26 May 2007
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Introversion Software has just announced today its teaming up with the makers of the amBX PC gaming peripherals, Philips Electronics, in an effort to release an exciting, three-month Defcon league and tournament throughout the UK. The event will be hosted by IGUK, with the Grand Final being played out in the world�... |
24 May 2007
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