Well welcome back guys ... I think it would be a great idea if we had a small set of presentations (account presentations) about defcon and what went there. I am sure it will be intresting to many of us ...
Cheers Szemir On August 12, 2008 02:16, Shawn wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
