p2pnet news view | Security:- Three French hacks were booted out of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas for —- hacking into fellow journalists’ computers.

They worked for online French magazine Global Security Magazine but according to Agence France-Presse, they, “plugged into a wired network in a Black Hat press room and evidently ’sniffed’ out log-in information used by peers.”

Mauro Israel, Marc Brami and Dominique Jouniot, “took their finds to computer specialists operating a ‘Wall of Sheep’ at the conference,” which is “legendary at an annual DefCon hackers gathering,” making its premier debut at Black Hat this year, says AFP.

Wall operators, “scour wireless computer transmissions, capturing unsecure password and account information,” it explains.

Global Security Magazine has been a longtime sponsor of Black Hat, which said it doesn’t intend to take legal action in the case, adds the post.

. .Stumble It!

Agence France-Presse - French reporters booted from US computer security conference, August 9, 2008

---

Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It’s really easy!

Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile - http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php

---

Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details. Download here.

This entry was posted on Monday, August 11th, 2008 at 9:32 am and is filed under Security. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

HOME

Viewed 2659 times