Watch the news in the next bit. There was a VERY significant hack revealed DURING DefCon. In a nutshell, they "hijacked the Internet - no really". It was significant enough that an unscheduled presentation was put together for this.
In the middle of DefCon, they were able to capture ALL, (seriously I mean ALL!) traffic on the DefCon network, reroute it to go through New York, and back to DefCon. Without anyone noticing. In an almost untraceable manner. The traceable part would take an incredibly keen eye to see the one or two hints in a trace route. Think about that. Approx 9000 hackers, actively stressing the network. The most hostile network there could be. And not a single one of them noticed they themselves were hacked in the midst of the event.... And it was all triggered by a single email message. (disclaimer - I *think* that was the mechanism) No "exploits" needed.... and it wasn't even a social engineering thing. The implications are kinda staggering. They chose to only affect the DefCon network. They could have very easily done the same to say, Google. MicroSoft, Dell, etc. And then blocked or modified any traffic they wanted. That was a VERY cool thing to see. If the news isn't released before the next meeting, we'll give a few more details. (we being one of the 4 of us who made it to DefCon this year) Shawn ps, hope I got the hints right... They were talking about networking at a level I've rarely had the opportunity to hear about, never mind implement. John, I think you know all the details needed to do this. It's much closer to your level of work, I think. pss. hmmm. Now as I write this up, I'm beginning to wonder if this may have been misdirection.... If nothing else, DefCon shows you that the paranoid are not being paranoid enough!... lol _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
