HOPE Number 9 will be taking place on July 13 to 15, 2012 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City

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HOPE Number Nine will be taking place on July 13, 14, and 15, 2012 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. H.O.P.E. stands for Hackers On Planet Earth, one of the most creative and diverse hacker events in the world. It's been happening since 1994. Keynotes include William Binney and The Yes Men.

Microsoft Windows Ipv6 Router Advertisement Denial of Service

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A denial of service vulnerability is present in some versions of Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability is specific to the Neighbor Discovery implementation in the IPv6 stack. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service crashing the system.

First round of speakers selected for DerbyCon 2.0!

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The first round of speakers have been selected for DerbyCon 2.0. For those that have submitted, we are only up to submissions sent up to May 23rd. If you did not receive an email, note that there are still several that are on the tentative list to being accepted. We will be going through the rest of the call for paper submissions within the next two weeks. Call for papers are still open! Submit yours!

“Internet Doomsday” for some, Get rid of DNSChanger Malware Now!

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July 9, 2012, has been dubbed "Internet doomsday" and there is a chance you will not be able to access the Internet on your personal computer due to a malware called DNSChanger Trojan.

Upcoming SANS Training Events

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