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- Defcon 2007: The Wall of Sheep gets “Hamsterized”
- by Humphrey Cheung on 2007-08-07
“Oh look, I got a MySpace.” While other attendees at the Defcon security convention were soaking in the atmosphere, a dedicated group of hackers were soaking in their data. By sniffing both wired and wireless traffic, the group finds user names, passwords and yes even MySpace profile pages and then posts the information on the convention’s famous “Wall of Sheep”. Sure it’s embarrassing if you’re the one being caught, but in this group considers it tough love.
- Liquidmatrix Security Digest » Wall of Sheep 2007
- by Dave Lewis on 2007-08-05
One of my favourite parts of Defcon. It took them the better part of the first day to get the screen up and running but, when they did the laughter began. One interesting side was the capture of Gmail accounts on the wire. Gmail encrypts the initial login…but not the cookies. At least one victim found out the hard way.
- Wall of Sheep in a Comic
- by Brian Shearer on 2006-08-10
The Wall of Sheep is featured in the comic "Memory Leak."
- Defcon Delays Can't Stop the Madness
- by Brian Krebs on 2006-08-04
Already, there are dozens of names on the "Wall of Sheep," a running tally of the unsuspecting or foolhardy souls who venture to log in to various unencrypted Web sites over the hotel's wired, wireless or Bluetooth networks. As of 3 p.m. PT Friday I spotted at least five Myspace.com user-account credentials on the wall, as well as user name and password info for someone at networking giant Cisco and another at a Hawaii state government Web site. At the rate the sheep are piling up this year, we are likely to see more than 100 victims listed on the wall.
- ZDnet: Wall of Sheep at DEFCON illustrates what no
- by George Ou on 2006-08-04
At DEFCON 2006 in Las Vegas, a few "lucky" attendees "volunteered" to be real life examples what clear text authentication protocols you shouldn’t be using. Because most of the common web technologies used in the world are still using clear text authentication, hackers at DEFCON illustrate why this is such a bad idea. Every year at DEFCON when one would think that attendees should know better, the Wall of Sheep is populated with careless users. I actually stopped by because of my paranoia and breathed a sigh of relief when I verified that I wasn’t on the wall.
- Newbury Networks Locates Devices for Wall of Sheep
- by Newbury Networks on 2005-08-03
A team from Newbury Networks worked with the [Wall of Sheep], an independent group of security professionals who run the venerated "Wall of Sheep" project which finds and publicly identifies users who expose their identity via unsecured connections. Newbury was tasked with supplementing the "Wall of Sheep" by locating WiFi devices, identifying unsecured activity, and detecting wireless attacks. Newbury created a floor plan of the conference space and mapped the hall's "RF fingerprint" to allow for pinpoint identification of wireless devices' location. Newbury projected a large wall display, providing attendees a real-time "air-traffic control" view of wireless activity using Newbury Network's award-winning WiFi Watchdog.
- Hackers Demonstrate Their Skills in Vegas
- by Greg Sandoval on 2005-08-01
To make their point, they pilfered Internet passwords from convention attendees. Anyone naive enough to access the Internet through the hotel's unsecured wireless system could see their name and part of their passwords scrolling across a huge public screen. It was dubbed the "The Wall of Sheep."
- Make:Blog: @ DEFCON - The wall of sheep
- by Phillip Torrone on 2005-07-31
At DEFCON there's a wall with a projection of username and passwords (some of the password that is). When you use any wireless here, it's safe to assume that all the packets are being captured and if you're foolish, you logged in to webmail, pop, AIM, etc...DEFCON is reality concentrated in to one spot- when you see your friend's password on the wall, and a big sheep go by, it's a clever reminder.
- The Inquirer: Wall of Sheep - I See Stupid People
- by Charlie Demerjian on 2005-07-30
One of the highlights of Defcon 13 is the Wall of Sheep. This large projection of stupid people is hard to miss if you are in the chill out room, and it is a lot of fun. What they do is post usernames and enough of a password for the terminally stupid to realise that they are serious, but not enough to give it all away. The sheer number of them at a place where people should know better is really frightening.
