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Cyber Warfare Conference: Agenda

KEYNOTE
Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer, F-Secure
Evolution of the Threat

KEYNOTE
James Lewis, Director and Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Policy
Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency

Jose Nazario, PhD., Arbor Networks
Measuring Global Denial of Service Attacks

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TOORCAMP 2009 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

- Sleeping bags


CAMPSITE ORGANIZER SUBMISSION INFORMATION

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PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION

DoS in Microsoft Media Player 11 on Win XP SP2

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ToorCon 9 CFP

Note that by presenting at ToorCon 9 you grant ToorCon permission to
reproduce, distribute and/or advertise your talk as seen fit. If your talk
is accepted and because of some emergency you are unable to speak, you
must notify ToorCon within 24 hours of your talk, otherwise ToorCon
reserves the right to tell all the other fellow hacker cons how you
ditched out at the last minute and take it into consideration the next
time you submit a talk :).


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RE: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability.

> Systems Administrator
>
> Virginia Tech

Wow, security through obscurity.  That's a good practice alright.  So
you propose that I and my fellow Pidgin developers implement security
through obscurity, thus giving our users a false sense of security?  No
chance.  Note also that we store passwords on-disk without any form of
encryption or obfuscation, which has been debated to death on numerous
occasions--so much so, in fact, that we've written an FAQ entry dealing
specifically with this.  Additionally, *any* form of encryption that we

Re: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability.

> Systems Administrator
> 
> Virginia Tech

Wow, security through obscurity.  That's a good practice alright.  So
you propose that I and my fellow Pidgin developers implement security
through obscurity, thus giving our users a false sense of security?  No
chance.  Note also that we store passwords on-disk without any form of
encryption or obfuscation, which has been debated to death on numerous
occasions--so much so, in fact, that we've written an FAQ entry dealing
specifically with this.  Additionally, *any* form of encryption that we



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