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DEFCON is the self-described "largest underground hacking event in the world". Official events include numerous speakers, panels, hacking and trivia contests, and the DC Shoot (geeks with guns in the desert sun). Unofficial events include parties, all-you-can-eat sushi, and a visit to the Gun & Knife show at Cashman Center. Some people think it's worth the $80 price of admission just to see the circus, to observe the hacker hangers-on baking in their de-facto uniform of black T-shirts and jeans.

Hacking may have learned of husband's lies Missing: The family hires a criminal defense attorney to represent Mark Hacking, who remains hospitalized By Ashley Broughton and Matthew D. LaPlante The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-07-27 00:39:09.532 Three days before she disappeared, Lori Hacking may have uncovered her husband's deceptions.   She received a phone call at her work, started crying and went home early, said a colleague at Wells Fargo Institutional Brokerage and Sales.   "I could hear her say things such as, 'But he's already been accepted. He's already applied. This can't be correct,' said Darren Openshaw, a Wells Fargo...

Deseret Morning News, Tuesday, July 27, 2004 Hacking retains lawyer Co-workers say Lori Hacking left work early in tearsBy Pat Reavy and Jennifer DobnerDeseret Morning News The husband of missing jogger Lori Hacking has retained a prominent local criminal defense attorney, and reports surfaced Monday of co-workers seeing a tearful Lori Hacking leave work early three days before she disappeared. Journalists surround Salt Lake police detective Dwayne Baird Monday in Salt Lake City. He had few details to release about evidence collected in the Hacking case.Michael Brandy, Deseret Morning News Mark Hacking has hired D. Gilbert Athay, who has...

SALT LAKE CITY July 26, 2004 — Three days before her husband reported her missing, Lori Hacking took a phone call at work that left her stunned and sobbing, her colleagues at a brokerage house told The Associated Press. Several colleagues said that Hacking had been arranging for on-campus housing at the University of North Carolina medical school and that they believe the school was returning a call to say her husband, Mark Hacking, was not enrolled there, as he had told her. Lori Hacking left work early after receiving the call the afternoon of Friday, July 16. Mark Hacking...

Local news just announced that the families of Lori Hacking have called off the volunteer search. They said they were not taking cues from the police, but were concerned that the volunteers were being sent into some dangerous areas. According to the family spokesman, the families don't know anything more about the police investigation than what is broadcast on the news. The report this morning was that the police spent last night searching the county landfill with cadaver dogs.

Search at Landfill Resumes, Lori Hacking’s Husband Hires an Attorney Jul 26, 2004 9:50 pm US/Mountain Salt Lake City police investigating the disappearance of 27-year-old Lori Hacking were back Monday night at the landfill they searched last week. They are using cadaver dogs as they did last week. Police Detective Dwayne Baird says the search last week had not been completed when the dogs had to be taken to another assignment. Asked by why they were searching at night, Baird told 2News that the dogs had just become available again and they also worked better at night. Meanwhile, the husband...

SALT LAKE CITY — The focus on Mark Hacking's possible role in the disappearance of his wife tightened Monday with reports that police found a bloody knife in the couple's apartment and Lori Hacking got an upsetting phone call at work three days before she vanished.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The search for 27-year-old Lori Hacking has made an unlikely connection between Salt Lake City and Chapel Hill.Lori Hacking reportedly left her Salt Lake home around daybreak Monday to go jogging and has not been seen since. Mark Hacking, Lori's husband, told family, investigators and the media that he and his wife had planned to move to Chapel Hill to attend medical school, but on Wednesday, WRAL learned that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has no record of Mark Hacking and that he is not registered to be a student at the medical...

Pregnant Woman Disappears While Jogging Tuesday, July 20, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY — In a case reminiscent of the disappearance of Laci Peterson, a 27-year-old pregnant woman vanished during her daily morning jog, and distraught family and friends turned out Tuesday to search for her. Lori Kay Hacking, who is five weeks pregnant, went out about 5:30 a.m. Monday, heading from her Salt Lake City home to nearby City Creek Canyon and Memory Grove park for a run.

SALT LAKE CITY — The night after 27-year-old Lori Hacking (search) disappeared, her husband was causing a disturbance at a local hotel, FOX News has learned. Police late Monday night responded to a complaint at the Chase Suites Hotel, where Mark Hacking (search) was running around naked, only wearing a pair of sandals. When the officers realized who he was, they took him to the nearby University Neuropsychiatric Institute (search), where he was admitted as a patient. FOX News has also learned that less than a half hour before Mark Hacking called police to report that his pregnant wife never...

Mark Hacking had checked into a hotel on Tuesday and was found outside the hotel walking around naked. Needed psychiatric attention.

Chinese Hacker May be PLA The Ministry of Foreign Affairs send an urgent message to the Korean Embassy in Beijing instructing it to confirm whether the recent hacking of computers at major national institutions is connected with the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army. Ahead of this, as the Foreign Ministry was protesting Chinese state-run media distortions of Goguryo history to Chinese Ambassador Li Bin on Wednesday, the ministry requested China's active cooperation in solving the hacking problem. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Shin Bong-kil said Li stated he would relay the request to Beijing and would work hard to see that the facts...

<p>An Internet computer server operated by an Arkansas government agency was transformed last weekend into the online home of dozens of videos featuring Osama bin Laden, Islamic jihadist anthems and terrorist speeches.</p> <p>State government officials removed the files from a computer operated by the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department shortly after they were discovered, a government spokesman said. The case highlights an increasing trend of hackers hijacking vulnerable Web servers for the purpose of advocating radical political and terrorist ideologies.</p>

The world's first mobile phone virus, capable of sending itself between handsets, has been discovered by an internet security company in Moscow. The Cabir virus is designed to attack the top-of-the-range models of brands such as Nokia which use the common operating system Symbian. It is disguised as part of the phone's own security software. Once inside, it activates the wireless information transfer system known as Bluetooth. Each time the phone is turned on it searches for other phones nearby with Bluetooth and then sends itself to the first of them. While it is active the phone's screen displays the...

Third Country Hacker Uses Korean Computers to Hack U.S Air Force Space Command Korean police and their U.S counterpart began a joint investigation as several computers of an army unit under the U.S Air Force Space Command (SPACECOM) were hacked by an individual in a third country via a Korean firms’ computers in mid-February. The U.S. concluded that it was a serious case and hurriedly dispatched its investigators to Korea. The two countries began to establish a closely cooperative investigation system and have shared information to identify the hacker. The U.S Air Force Space Command is one of nine major...

Saturday, February 28, 2004 12:00AM EST Prank results in fake closings Cable news outlet changing system By VICKI HYMAN, Staff Writer A local TV news station inadvertently aired a series of smutty business closings as part of its weather coverage Thursday night, thanks to pranksters with decent computer skills and "Saturday Night Live" sensibilities. News 14 Carolina, the 24-hour local news station run by Time Warner Cable, ran the fake announcements mixed with real closings for hours before station workers shut down the automated, Internet-based closings system. Meanwhile, viewers learned that an emporium selling a certain sex accessory would be...

Altering Your Engine With New ChipsBy JIM MOTAVALLI Published: February 13, 2004 WHEN Scott Farrell, a Coast Guard instructor in Newport News, Va., wanted a big power boost for his 1998 Volkswagen Jetta TDI, he didn't lower the suspension, install a hot camshaft or add a free-flow exhaust. Instead, he had a business-card size electronic part installed — a so-called "performance chip" designed to reprogram the car's engine control module to provide more horsepower. "It was a night-and-day difference," he said. Mr. Farrell is just one of an increasing number of car owners using computer chips or software downloads to...

Hatch's handling of hacking decriedShould have hurt Demos -- not GOP, conservatives sayBy Lee DavidsonDeseret Morning NewsWASHINGTON -- A chorus of conservative groups say Sen. Orrin Hatch's attempts to appease Democrats converted a "smoking gun" supposedly proving Democratic corruption of judicial confirmations into a bomb wounding only Republicans. Sen. Orrin Hatch Criticism of the Utah Republican comes as Manuel Miranda, a top GOP aide overseeing judicial nominations, resigned Friday amid a probe into whether Republicans hacked into Senate computers to obtain and leak Democratic memos about judicial confirmations. Another unnamed aide, said to be a Utah native, quit earlier after...

How to Hack an Election Concerned citizens have been warning that new electronic voting technology being rolled out nationwide can be used to steal elections. Now there is proof. When the State of Maryland hired a computer security firm to test its new machines, these paid hackers had little trouble casting multiple votes and taking over the machines' vote-recording mechanisms. The Maryland study shows convincingly that more security is needed for electronic voting, starting with voter-verified paper trails. When Maryland decided to buy 16,000 AccuVote-TS voting machines, there was considerable opposition. Critics charged that the new touch-screen machines, which...

Internet voting has been viewed as a possible cure for some of the ills that afflict the mechanics of American democracy. Recently, the technology has seemed to move ahead of any serious consideration of whether it is actually a good idea to allow home computer owners to choose a president in the same way they order bath towels online or send e-mail to their relatives. But now there are grave questions about whether even the technology makes sense. Four computer scientists brought in by the Pentagon to analyze a plan for Internet voting by the military issued a blistering report...