Folks, Mark your calendars for this one. Great talk lined up! ----------- Topic: "Defcon Capture the Flag: Defending Vulnerable Code from Intense Attack" Speaker: Crispin Cowen, WireX. Dr. Cowan leads Immunix Technologies research and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) projects for WireX. He holds a formerly full-time and continuing part-time research professor position with the Oregon Graduate Institute, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Cowan has over fifteen years experience in UNIX/Linux OS platform and software technology. Dr. Cowan developed Immunix, a host security/survivability technology project for DARPA that includes prominent technologies like StackGuard. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo. Presentation Abstract: Defcon's Capture the Flag (CtF) game is the largest open computer security hacking game. Last year's CtF had rules that made it particularly difficult to be a successful defender. We entered an Immunix server, comprised of five years of DARPA-funded technologies, to see whether this system could survive sustained attack from determined experts. We describe our experience surviving Defcon CtF.
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