Folks, Due to the need for Verizon to utilize the room on June 10th for internal meetings, we will slip the CRIME meeting date to Wednesday, June 11th, same time, same place. Thanks! Geo ----------- 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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