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    • Play Dennis Brown on Synthetic Economies - DC401 on Blip DC401 episodes on Blip

      Dennis Brown on Synthetic Economies

      Selling currency and services for massively multiplayer games are often viewed as a cottage industry, but it is in fact a half-billion dollar industry that profits off of malware distribution and sweatshop labor. Its also a conflict between the companies behind these games who want to keep a fair playing field, and the people trying to profit from them using techniques such as social engineering, keyloggers and spamming, amongst others. This presentation discusses the recent history of these s...

      • Release date
        Nov 22, 2009
      • Runtime
        01:00:08
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      Andy Pavlo - Graffiti Networks

      "In response to the lack of user anonymity and long-term data persistence in existing P2P systems, we developed the Graffiti Network distributed file sharing protocol that uses multiple third-party storage sites as a data replication and transfer medium between clients. Our approach is to use publically available web sites to store multiple copies of shared content. We use the term graffiti for our work since we are storing data in a way that non-network participants may regard as unsightly or...

      • Release date
        Nov 1, 2009
      • Runtime
        01:03:40
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      Nick D - deDECTed

      Nick D gives a talk about his experience playing with the deDECTed code. Includes an epic fail of a demo.

      • Release date
        May 31, 2009
      • Runtime
        47:59
    • Play Pepin Tells Some War Stories - DC401 on Blip DC401 episodes on Blip

      Pepin Tells Some War Stories

      DC401 Member Pepin tells a number of humorous tales from his years in IT and InfoSec.

      • Release date
        Feb 14, 2009
      • Runtime
        01:07:05
    • Play Dennis Brown - Anatomy of the Asprox Botnet - DC401 on Blip DC401 episodes on Blip

      Dennis Brown - Anatomy of the Asprox Botnet

      The year 2008 has seen the rapid and pervasive rise of large-scale SQL Injection attacks as a mechanism for distributing malware. One of the most successful and interesting parties using this technique are the people behind the Asprox (aka Danmec) botnet. This presentation will discuss the reasons why the Asprox botnet is so successful and will lay bare the botnet in its entirety, explaining its structure, command and control architecture, describing executed attacks and diving into other aspe...

      • Release date
        Oct 28, 2008
      • Runtime
        39:00
    • Play DC401 Hacker Jeopardy - DC401 on Blip DC401 episodes on Blip

      DC401 Hacker Jeopardy

      In preparation for the August pilgrimage to Defcon, we held Hacker Jeopardy tryouts this month. Unfortunately, this doesn't guarantee us a slot in the game in Vegas, but it'll be hella fun anyway. We even made a lockout button/buzzer set at the Tuesday night hack the week before.

      • Release date
        Jun 10, 2008
      • Runtime
        57:06
    • Play Bruce Wattendorf - RepRap Talk - DC401 on Blip DC401 episodes on Blip

      Bruce Wattendorf - RepRap Talk

      Bruce Wattendorf is a Rhode Island based RepRap maker. He and his son have working on their RepStrap (because it has non replicated parts) since January 2007. Bruce brought his RepRap in to demo its capabilities and talk about the process of actually building one. For anyone who's dreamed of printing 3D objects, this talk is for you.

      • Release date
        May 14, 2008
      • Runtime
        39:20
    • Play iHack (And So Can You!) - DC401 on Blip DC401 episodes on Blip

      iHack (And So Can You!)

      Ivan the Space Biker giving a iHack presentation April 2nd 2008

      • Release date
        Apr 30, 2008
      • Runtime
        37:35
    • Play February Meeting - Dan King - Intro to Pen Testing - DC401 on Blip DC401 episodes on Blip

      February Meeting - Dan King - Intro to Pen Testing

      From DC401 February Meeting. Dan King gives the first in a series of talks on Penetration Testing. This first talk focuses mainly on information gathering.

      • Release date
        Apr 1, 2008
      • Runtime
        56:00
    • Play November 2007 Talk - PaulDotCom on Embedded Device (in)Security - DC401 on Blip DC401 episodes on Blip

      November 2007 Talk - PaulDotCom on Embedded Devi...

      Embedded devices come in many forms, and offer unique opportunities for attackers to do damage. This talk will focus primarily on common network devices such as routers and wireless access points and how they can be used to gain access to your target and preventative measures. We will stroll down memory lane and review some of the vulnerabilities that have been released for embedded devices, and how we can them to gain control of the device, the network, and more importantly the data traveling...

      • Release date
        Feb 5, 2008
      • Runtime
        45:37
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