It would appear that our beloved ‘moses’,of #hackuk / #2600uk fame, has gone and got himself engaged. Now living in sunny Perth, Australia, moses is set to marry his fiance, Krysty, in November 2007.
So, from everyone at 2600uk.com and the old school crew of Undernet. Congratulations! :D
Slashdot informs us of an entertaining “hack”…
“….pulled off when Randall Munroe, author of the popular webcomic XKCD, spoke at MIT by invitation of the Lab for Computer Science. MIT hackers dropped hundreds of labelled playpen balls onto the audience from hatches in the ceiling. The labels bore XKCD’s logo as well as the recently discovered 16-byte AACS processing key. At another point in Munroe’s talk he was stalked by remote-controlled mechanical velociraptors; but fortunately he had been supplied with a squirt gun full of grape juice.”
Happy Christmas to everyone still plugging away at the UK Hack Phreak scene. We hope to further our efforts over 2007 with more tech papers and articles, and some interesting community based projects.
Happy Christmas & a Happy New Year :D
DNS Conference 9 is now on! The annual hacker event will take place in Manchester and run alongside the Continuity Conference setup by the good people at Manchester 2600. The events will run from the 1st December (Friday) through to the 3rd December (Sunday). More details will be announced soon.
From : www.continuity.org.uk
Courtesy of Manchester 2600
Continuity is a free security convention open to anyone with an interest in computer security, hacking, phone phreaking, telephony, cryptography, warez, internet security/privacy, urban exploration, social engineering and related subjects.
One of our key aims with Continuity is to gather together as many people as possible who were on the old school BBS’s like DaC, Terminal Boredom, Unauthorised Access, Urban XTC, 1066, and the many others, or attended hacker conferences like Access All Areas, Controversy, Conspiracy, Catastrophe and DNSCon, along with people who have attended any of the monthly
UK 2600 meetings.
We would also like to see anybody there with a current interest in computer security and related subjects even if they have never been on a BBS or to a conference before.
COST : Continuity is a completely FREE event
From man2600@gmail….
There will be no Manchester 2600 meeting this month for obvious
reasons.The next Manchester 2600 Meeting will be the 3rd November 2006
Thanks
Manchester 2600
Obvious reasons being the BrumCon 2006 hacker conference. www.brum2600.net
Just a quick reminder that this years Brumcon hacker convention is set to go ahead on Saturday October 7th.
Details are as follows:
Thistle Birmingham Edgbaston
225 Hagley Road, Edgbaston
Birmingham. B16 9RY
Doors open 11.30am Talks start at 12.00
Talks so far in no particular order:-
What’s On The Cards:
More Information : www.brum2600.net
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Brumcon VI is go!
7th October 2006, entry from 11am, talks start 12 noon.
Thistle Birmingham Edgbaston
225 Hagley Road,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham.
B16 9RY
Call For Speakers
If you’re interested in speaking at BrumCon 06 then please contact MinusQ
at brumcon6 at brum2600.net with details of your proposed talk. The length
of the talk will depend on the number of speakers, but generally should
be between 30-60 minutes. If you feel that you need more than an hour,
talk to MinusQ and he’ll arrange something for you :)
Topics of particular interest: Hacking/Security related talks
Phreaking/Telephony related talks Wireless (Bluetooth, GSM, 802.11,
Radio, Satellite) communications.
Full details are here: http://www.brum2600.net/brumcon6/
It would appear that this years DNS-CON gathering may have been given a miss. The event which see’s computer enthusiasts from all over the world gather in Blackpool every August failed to have much of a mention this year. However, after speaking to the conferences organiser - Khaldor, I can confirm that DNS-CON is set to go ahead this year, but at the later than usual time of December with the venue being based in Manchester. Plans are still a little sketchy, but I’ll put up new announcements as the details become more finalised.
At this years Black Hat conference in New York, security consultant Brendan O’Connor displayed a proof of concept attack against a Xerox printer. Exploiting vulnerabilities in the printers embedded software; O’Connor was able to snoop on the traffic being passed to the device. During the conference O’Connor highlighted the importance of security in embedded software and pointed out the huge amount of sensitive information that could be leaked if such an attack occurred. Xerox has released a patch for their WorkCenter printers but O’Connor maintains that the issue is not fully resolved.