Defcon 24 days away, Cannonball 23 days away, El_Jefe 17 days away
Thats right, it's just around the corner. tommEE will be doing the Stealing Streaming Media Presentation at Defcon. The race is set up as much as it can. The check for the t-shirts should be dropped off tonight. Abbynrml and Ghstwrtr will be flying the night before the cannonball. El_jefe flies in the 25th to scare everyone. It's going to be a fun time. Looking for M0nk right now to be our camera man. Haven't decided on the costumes. Official site is the DEFCON 11 Index Page

Hack attacks not a big deal says wired.com
Computer hackers vying in a global contest on Sunday defaced a slew of websites, but the damage was confined to the Internet's backwater of small, unsecured sites, security officials said.
The "Defacer's Challenge" got off to a quick start on Sunday with 300 attacks reported minutes after the 2 a.m. EDT official start, said Roberto Preatoni, founder of Estonia-based Zone-H.org, a site that tracks hack attacks.
"There were no big names," he said. But he added his own site, www.zone-h.org, was knocked offline for much of the day because of a high volume of legitimate visitors and apparent attempts by hackers to bog down his computer servers.
According to the contest website (www.defacers-challenge.com), which was taken offline last week, hackers were urged to prove their skills by defacing as many websites as possible during a six-hour span on Sunday.
Points were awarded for the number and type of computer servers they infiltrated, the rules stated.
Concern grew among cyber security organizations last week that the competition would cripple countless websites, but by Sunday afternoon as the event was drawing to a close there was no sign of damage among the Web's most popular sites.
The Web's largest websites, including Amazon.com and Yahoo.com, were functioning as normal on Sunday.
"It seems to be a damp squib," said Graham Cluley, spokesman for UK-based security firm Sophos.
Via.Networks, a U.S.-Dutch Internet service provider and website-hosting firm that manages websites for over 50,000 clients in America and Western Europe, also reported no incidences.
"None of our customers have called to report any problems. It's all quiet on the Western Front," said Joanne Hughes, a spokeswoman for Via Networks.
Hacking activities have been on the rise for years as the expertise behind compromising a website's vulnerable computer server is freely passed around the Internet in chat areas and is posted on websites dedicated to the activity.
Hack attacks range from outright defacement to flooding a server with data requests, knocking a site offline. In the former case, hackers replace the contents of a Web page with their own message, often a political rant written in the signature style of broken English.
With hackers sending out challenges regularly, security officials expressed bewilderment that this contest received so much press attention, fearing it would only encourage more elaborate events in the future.
But Via.Network's Hughes saw something of a silver lining in the fact she and her team were on the ready this weekend for a possible showdown with hackers. "If it makes people more aware about security then that's a good thing," she said.