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A BlackHat / DefCon Secure Communication Tip
By Martin English | July 29, 2009
From A Day in the Life of an Information Security Investigator, currently attending the Black Hat Technical Security Conference:
Here’s some early feedback for the folks connecting to wireless networks around BlackHat (and soon to be at DefCon).
Y’all aren’t taking this whole secure-communications thing too seriously.
Clear-text POP3/IMAP e-mail credentials are getting plucked out of the air by *cough* individuals *cough*. Some of these are coming from phones that folks are configuring to use the wireless LANs. Not a good idea.
It makes you wonder how many people go to these kinds of conference just to “be seen”…. It sounds like some of these individuals don’t know enough about security to even understand the subject matter you’d find at either BlackHat or DefCon !!
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