Re: [Full-disclosure] DEF CON 19 - hackers get hacked!

[chris nelson <sleekmountaincat@xxxxxxxxx>]

wow. this is just fucking crazy. any thought on who was behind it? i can not
find anyone taking credit. does anyone else think mayhaps the government
might have some thing to do with this?

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Basan <basan@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: -= Glowing Sex =-
> > Sent: 08/10/11 10:56 AM
> > To: coderman
> > Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] DEF CON 19 - hackers get hacked!
> > times are a changing... but, i see now what tyou mean... still, i just
> dont
> > know why people even INSTALL or, accept anything at a defcon meeting, ofc
> > someone will try to make some name, mining for data, is stealing an id
> > nowdays, so there would be GREat potential for one device, to connect to
> > some network, and rescan for other weak/known exploits... then you have
> an
> > army :)
>
> To my knowledge, I was watching people's devices getting popped with little
> to no interaction by their part. If memory serves me correctly maybe someone
> did an apt-get update on their machine, but outside of that just the usual
> browsing and remote work.
>
> > but, intersting about 4G... i have not yet to see that haxd so, 1 point
> for
> > that but, thats prolly coz ui aint really been looking at that side of it
>
> It was impressive. Essentially if you had a device on and near the Rio
> during (and for some time after) DEF CON, you had a high chance of being
> compromised.
>
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