![]() Last year at Defcon, the hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow premiered “BackOrifice 2000,” a program that lets network administrators or system crackers gain control of machines running Windows 2000. He and Jones were to be released following their acquittals Thursday. This year has seen several sizeable computer-crime incidents, including denial-of-service attacks that hit prominent Web sites such as Yahoo! and CNN.com in February and the multibillion-dollar “Love Bug” virus attack that struck computers worldwide in May. Ross Hack was on the verge of being released when he was indicted in the federal murder case in 2012. The convention is being held at the Alexis Park hotel in Las Vegas through Sunday. “It’s where all the idiosyncrasies come out,” said Tim Lawless, a systems administrator at the University of Southern Mississippi. “There’s an interesting, very tight network here, a lot of people exchanging information, where the hacking community’s going,” said Neil Danoff, an information security expert with Motorola.ĭefcon’s not the most technical conference rather, it’s where hackers let their (long, multicolored) hair down and party. They’re at Defcon, the world’s biggest hacker convention, and, according to its organizers “a computer underground party for hackers.” ![]() Thousands of hackers - along with some federal agents and hangers-on - swarmed a hotel in Las Vegas today to collect T-shirts, socialize and trade tips on breaking into computers. ![]() L A S V E G A S, July 28 - The hacker attacks have begun.
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