Wimpinator

This site has some cool projects and covers their take on Defcon

http://www.hackaday.com/

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Apophis

In all honesty; your best defense is knowing you're vulnerable in the first place. The worst things you can do are:

1) Assume you are safe because of your browsing habits and/or AV protection. We have seen over the past few weeks (if you stay up on the hacking type news) that well known sites are being infected and propigating malware to clients visiting the site. What does this mean? You can be infected simply by looking at a site like cnn.com, youtube.com, myspace.com, or anything else.

2) Assume you are safe because you don't have any interesting information. In many cases, it's not information saved on your machine that they are after. If you ever log into your bank account, type your social security number, file your taxes, or check your credit card balances online you're exposing some seriously confidential information. Even if you don't do any of the above, your machine can readily be used to infect others.

I'm going to post more on this once DEFCON is over and I get home.

Day one of DEFCON went pretty well. I only went to a couple sessions but had a good time either way. I ran into a very old friend (the founder of the cDc) and scared the crap out of him when I knew his full name. It was amusing.

Time to grab some dinner and free drinks courtesy of some VIP tickets we got at the show today.

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