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NSA Chief will Be a Speaker at The DEF CON Hacker Conference – Tech Tuesday

Big Rich — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:30:04 +0000

Until a few days ago, one of the main speaking events for this Friday at the 20th Anniversary meeting of DEF CON, a hacker conference that takes place in Las Vegas, was being kept secret. But it was revealed that General Keith Alexander, head of U.S. Cyber Security and Organizational leader for the NSA, has agreed to be the speaker for that day. This is pretty big news in the computer security world.

The HOPE Conference, ComiCon's Tech Cousin – Tech Tuesday

Big Rich — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:30:55 +0000

The HOPE conference, also known as the Hackers On Planet Earth is a biennial conference held in New York City, and started in 1994. It's a place were Hackers from all over can gather and talk about anything security related or about new ideas they have to improve software or what have you. It's like the technical side of summer camp for geeks.

Tech Thursday – Sony's PSN Hacked: Customer Data In The Wild!

Big Rich — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:30:56 +0000

This has not been a good year so far for Sony. First their main encryption key for the PS3 was broken and then the data on how to do it was released on the Internet. Now Sony has announced that their PlayStation Network, has been hacked and customer's personal info may have been stolen.