OMG the SCADA is Falling!!!
Let me say first that SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) attacks are real, they do happen and should be a real concern. But if we look at the recent…
Hackers Need Not Apply
Back in the nineties, the glory days of Hacking, just after the golden age of the late eighties, many companies were starting to get into the whole Internet Security thing.…
L0phtCrack 6 to Be Released at Source Boston
L0phtCrack, the original and still the best password auditing tool for MS windows based systems, will be re-released at Source Boston by the original authors! That's right Mudge, Dildog and…
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
In February of 1676 Sir Issac Newton wrote in a letter to Robert Hooke "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."…
Prototype This! premiers Wednesday Night
Former L0pht member, Defcon Badge Designer, Triathelete, new father, and urban clothing designer Kingpin (aka, Joe Grand) can now add yet another title to his resume, TV Star! The premier…
Fake Story Still Fake, Media Still Clueless
About eight years ago a media story broke about how some "hackers" took over a British Ministry of Defense Satellite and were holding it for ransom. Anyone who knew anything…
Mudge Cover’s Mass High Tech
So I get into work this morning and grab my snail-mail and throw it on my desk and go grab my morning oatmeal and glass of water. I get back…
The next Last HOPE in 2010
So The Last HOPE is over and while I am still here in New York (the reason why I’ll save for another day) I have been contemplating the events of…
Talks at the Last Hope
After you attend more than a half dozen or so hacker cons you start to realize several recurring themes amoung presentation topics. Topics such as Freedom of Information Act requests,…
The Last Hope in NYC Today!
I'm sitting on the floor of the eighteenth level of the Hotel Pennsylvania at The Last HOPElistening to Karsten Nohl talk about the (Im)possibility of Hardware Obfuscation as he discuss…