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Phreaknic 12 (2008) Hacker Con

2008-10-29 05:59:17 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Con This is a quick and dirty video documentary of the things that when on around the talks and event at Phreaknic 12 (2008). Don't watch if you get sick at shaky cam movies like Blair Witch or Cloverfield. A rough timeline of the content in the video is as follows Intro and leaving Louisville with Brian. Morgellon talks about hacking the...
 
Tags: con, phreaknic, video, con swag overview, source video editor, talks, sorteal talks, hacker con, lee eat jerky
 
 
 
 
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Phreaknic 12 (2008) Hacker Con

2008-10-29 05:59:17 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Con This is a quick and dirty video documentary of the things that when on around the talks and event at Phreaknic 12 (2008). Don't watch if you get sick at shaky cam movies like Blair Witch or Cloverfield. A rough timeline of the content in the video is as follows Intro and leaving Louisville with Brian. Morgellon talks about hacking the...
 
Tags: con, phreaknic, video, con swag overview, source video editor, talks, sorteal talks, hacker con, lee eat jerky
 
 
 
 
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Phreaknic 12 (2008) Hacker Con

2008-10-29 05:59:17 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Con This is a quick and dirty video documentary of the things that when on around the talks and event at Phreaknic 12 (2008). Don't watch if you get sick at shaky cam movies like Blair Witch or Cloverfield. A rough timeline of the content in the video is as follows Intro and leaving Louisville with Brian. Morgellon talks about hacking the...
 
Tags: con, phreaknic, video, con swag overview, source video editor, talks, sorteal talks, hacker con, lee eat jerky
 
 
 
 
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The Psychology of Con Men

2008-10-20 05:57:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...con] only makes the con artist a few dollars every time he does it, but I absolutely love it. These guys used to go door-to-door in the 1970s selling lightbulbs and they would offer to replace every single lightbulb in your house, so all your old lightbulbs would be replaced with a brand new lightbulb, and it would cost you, say $5, so a...
 
Tags: lightbulbs, single, single lightbulb, house, lightbulb, cost, door-to-door, absolutely love, con artist
 
 
 
 
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Hacker Con WiFi Hijinx: Protecting Yourself On Potentially Hostile Networks Hand Out

2008-12-29 18:07:37 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Con WiFi Hijinx: Protecting Yourself On Potentially Hostile Networks Hand Out I just finished updating a pamphlet on keeping your laptop secure at hacker and security conferences. Hopefully the information will be useful to some of you. I plan to bring them to hand out at Notacon 2009 . I've put up OpenOffice and PDF versions of the tri-fold,...
 
Tags: hostile networks hand, hand, credit links intact, security conferences, pdf versions, hacker, laptop secure, link, openoffice
 
 
 
 
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Beware of scams!

2008-01-31 06:06:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...con artists scam people and should be a real eye opener for many Last night's show dealt with how easy it is for con artists (not just conmen, but conwomen too)to steal credit card information, many times right in front of the victims. It would make you think twice about giving your credit card over to a waiter or waitress in a restaurant ...
 
Tags: customers credit card, credit card, credit card information, con artists, card reader, television con artists, regular card reader, information, real eye opener
 
 
 
 
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Things are not always what they seem - just ask Eliot Spitzer.

2008-03-11 13:17:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...consulting lives, we teach corporations to "expect the unexpected', that way, you will not be caught off-guard. The announcement yesterday afternoon that the former Attorney General (8 years) and New York State Governor (1 year), Eliot Spitzer was being investigated for his part in a prostitution ring caught a lot of people off guard A...
 
Tags: spitzer, eliot spitzer, street, street corner, street pick pocket, daily lives, lives, proverbial cookie jar, future employee
 
 
 
 
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Sometimes, It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief

2008-06-09 17:00:00 by David Critchell, Portfolio.com in Wired Security
 
...con games He eventually developed those skills into a successful career as a sleight-of-hand artist and performer in Las Vegas. His latest act, though, has him starring as a corporate security consultant. In this role, it is less his dexterous hands that appeals to his clients than his mastery of all aspects of criminal cons, grifts, and...
 
Tags: robbins, apollo robbins, robbins counts, 34-year-old robbins, information security protection, time, information security, full-time, security people
 
 
 
 
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Phish and Foul

2007-07-20 00:00:00 by Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...con game. Users are lured by e-mail messages to legitimate-seeming but criminal sites--typically falsified versions of their real banking sites--and encouraged to enter password information. Having harvested this information, the operators of the criminal sites use it to break into victims' accounts. (As the term suggests, most "phishing"...
 
Tags: sites, criminal sites, information, enter password information, online con game, e-mail, e-mail messages, security community, term suggests
 
 
 
 
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Google Spamming Us

2007-12-20 22:11:11 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...con Google into spamming websites. As if I dont get enough referrer spam, Google does one better. *sigh 66.249.73.40 - - [23/Nov/2007:19:11:23 +0000] GET /weird/popup.html/Buy-NET.html HTTP/1.1 302 204 - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html 66.249.73.40 - - [09/Dec/2007:07:21:51 +0000] GET...
 
Tags: google, html http1, http1, html, google likes viagra, referrer spam, spam, google spam, con google