Archive for June, 2013
The article starts explaining why and how Russia hosts probably the most capacious source of malicious programs worldwide. It’s common knowledge that most of the contemporary computer threats come from countries which do not apply appropriate effort to nip malware developers/releasers. A good or rather the most striking example of such kind is Russia, notorious […]
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Kevin Nassery: So, how did this stuff end up? Really, it just got sold. BCL got acquired by Access US. Most of the system staff eventually left and they migrated off those systems. I do recall once sitting at a table and Dop logging into an Access US with root and fixing something for his […]
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Mike “Dop” Dopheide: Okay, so we get root access, we’re playing around and everything’s great and no one really cares. But we got lazy; they upgrade system – and we lost all of our access. And I can’t remember why we decided we needed to get it back, but I remember we were in one […]
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Kevin Nassery: The NeXT stuff was really cool for me to see because it was probably the first UNIX system I had shell on, and this was the first time we were exposed to UNIX. And it was kind of eccentric and cool. Here I put up just a picture side by side of the […]
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Hi! I’m Kevin Nassery; this is Mike “Dop” Dopheide. We’ve been friends for about 15 years, we actually work together now; and we are going to kind of talk about how Dop and I got to know each other a little bit. We grew up in the same town – Quincy, Illinois. We have a […]
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This talk is “Not-So-Limited Warranty: Target Attacks on Warranties for Fun and Profit.” This talk is for people who like unconventional forms of social engineering, who want to learn more about serial numbers and how they’re used to protect products, and people who enjoy finding holes, of course. This isn’t for anyone who works for/with […]
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Now we are going to talk about asymmetrical encryption. We were talking about symmetrical encryption, where we’re basically just using a password to protect a file. And that’s really great if Alice and Bob know the password and if they can share it. What if Alice and Bob have never met? They’ve never met, somehow […]
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Hi, my name is Dru Streicher, and I am going to talk about encryption today. A little bit about me, I am a Systems Administrator for Hurricane Labs, we’re Cleveland based network security company. I am a hardware hacker and a chip musician, and I also collect arcane technology. And I also collect vinyl records. […]
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