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When we look at security of laptop computers, many people think that encrypting their hard drive will be enough to protect their data in case a laptop gets stolen. Basically that is much safer, than if it is not encrypted.
When laptop is stolen even encrypting hard drive may not save your data from thief’s eyes. [...]
Demonstration of hardware trojans
In modern fast evolving and full of electronics world, hardware trojans are an emerging threat especially with the growing number of electronic devices and multitude of manufacturers all over the world. On this years Defcon 16 CVORG, a research group located at the University of Delaware’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering [...]
Snort Plug-in Development
Snort, as a widespread security platform, had it’s part in Defcon this year, too. The presentation was about the usage of Snort and it’s plugins.
The basic idea was to show the extensibility of Snort via plugins. It is highly modularized. It has Snort rules, various output plugins, preprocessors for detection (alerting) and normalization [...]
Port Bunny
Nice presentation of the other port scanner was Port Bunny. It was created from the ground up, because authors didn’t want to include all the legacy ideas of how the port scanning should be done. It is meant to be run on a dedicated machine with no other software running (games, browsers etc.) and [...]
Nmap
This year Fyodor showed the new improvements in Nmap – the network scanning software and showed some ways of using it.
Main improvement of the Defcon version of Nmap is its speed/accuracy. Some scans take a lot of time especially if they span over wide range of IPs and ports. So improving the find performance while [...]
Defcon 16 that happened in Las Vegas in August (8.-10.) this year brought together a crowd of hackers, security administrators and other people interested in computer security. It had two sides, a technical side and also (almost as important) a social side.
The technical side of Decfon 16 offered many talks in 5 speaking rooms, different [...]