Hackers meet for coding festival
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The BBC and Yahoo are holding a hack day for web developers and designers.
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By Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Dec. 16--With pints of beer in hand and a laptop computer tucked into a backpack, Paul Wenzel and Justin Heideman waited among a crowd of techies in a South Minneapolis bar for their turn to show off the new software they made.
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Programmers, entrepreneurs, students and lawyers gather in mid-town Manhattan for an ad hoc conference on the latest web trends. Participation is required and shoes are not allowed. David Cohn reports from New York City.
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Initiative focuses on popular scripting language with the aim to improve security.
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Wired magazine's NextFest comes to Los Angeles this weekend. Attendees will hear inventors and researchers from around the globe and see displays of what's coming down the tech pike. Here's a glimpse of what's on the menu.
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I think I've mentioned this before but on Saturday Feb 12th I'll be talking  about the Jakarta FeedParser at CodeCon  in San Francisco.  I published an outline  of the talk on the FeedParser wiki.  I'm hoping to have a 0.5 release done before then and havepotentially another suprise in the works.
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A reconfigurable handheld device could foster a community of hardware hackers.
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Two computer engineers in the US are charged with conspiring to steal microchip designs.
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A vulnerability in the way the Firefox browser handles Javascript drew attention at a Saturday presentation at the ToorCon hacker conference, and Mozilla developers entered the week "heads down" in search of a solution.
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Several organisations will celebrate Saturday&#39;s International Software Freedom Day by hosting open source events around the country.
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Computer gamers from around the planet are gathering in San Francisco for the World Cyber Games.
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Firefox attack a 'stand up comedy routine' Two presenters razzed developers of the open source Mozilla browser this weekend at the ToorCon hacking convention in San Diego with claims that the browser's Javascript implementation is flawed, but the lecture appears to have been more stand-up comedy routine than substantiative research.â¦
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The CanSecWest security research conference promoters are thinking about giving hackers another shot at hacking a Mac, as well as Linux- and Windows-based PCs.
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Armed with laptops, modems, hard disk drives and sandwiches, 12 computer experts hunkered down Friday for a seven-hour contest to find the best hacker in tech-savvy Singapore.
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Presenters at the Crypto 2004 conference identify faster ways to forge digital signatures with common security algorithms.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft is inviting hackers onto its Redmond, Washington, campus again next week, and this time, software virtualization and mobile security will be the hot topics. The company's semi-annual BlueHat hacking conference will run Thursday and Friday, giving Microsoft engineers and executives a chance to hear first-hand reports on the latest in computer security research. This will be Microsoft's sixth BlueHat conference since it introduced the event in early 2005. This year, representatives from such companies as Symantec, 3Com's TippingPoint division, and Sourcefire will speak on topics ranging from embedded system security, software "fuzzing," and exploit creation, according to a preliminary schedule of the event obtained by the IDG News Service. "The BlueHat speakers, both leading external security researchers and internal Microsoft engineers, will pierce the security veil of virtualization and process isolation," wrote Microsoft security group manager Andrew Cushman on the BlueHat blog. "Plus, we've got a couple of talks on Windows Mobile and more about automated exploit creation -- this time using Metasploit." There will also be a discussion of WabiSabiLabi's controversial exploit marketplace given by Roberto Preatoni, strategic director with the company, according to the preliminary agenda. Friday morning will be devoted to a discussion of mobile hacking tools and techniques, and software virtualization will be discussed later in the day. A more up-to-date agenda is expected to be posted within a few days, according to Microsoft's public relations agency. Usually Microsoft says nothing about its BlueHat hacking conferences prior to the event, but this year, the company preannounced the confab, saying it wants to be a little more up-front about what's going on. "BlueHat is unique and still a closed door conference for MS product teams, but this year we will open up a little -- with info about the conference before it starts and with more info made available during the conference," Cushman wrote.
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Scammers and hackers are targeting the human factor in system setups. Part of a series on hot security topics.