ITT was fined $100 million for illegally exporting classified technical data relating to night vision equipment overseas. In addition to being fined, they must “invest $50 million over five years to accelerate development of night vision technology, and the government will maintain rights to all technology that is developed under the agreement.”
This incident should raise […]

I was watching an episode of It Takes a Thief on the Discovery Channel the other day that featured two skateboard shop owners. The hosts had scouted the shop a day before, looking for video cameras and other security equipment. The next day, they return and wait for the store owners to leave. The entrance […]

I wanted to ask Dan Kaminsky, who btw is a brilliant presenter (more below), about doing grammar and writing style analysis to determine who wrote a paper. I can see the techniques as potentially having forensic uses. Don’t ask me what his talk was about, I would not be able to recall any useful details. […]

While at ShmooCon, I saw a fair share of rogue ap’s pretending to be shmoocon ap’s. We worked to pull down these access points, but you can never be sure. To help keep yourself from getting pwned, disable wireless upon startup by commenting out your wireless interface. This will prevent anybody from hacking your laptop […]

We got our NOC up and running. Critical services have been set up for the most part, and we’ll be doing some tuning today. Not new to us all, things don’t always work the way you want, so that’s what we’re currently going through today. To anyone here at the con, don’t login to any […]