Joey AccordionGuy De Villa has produced an hilarious mashup of the brilliant Katamari Damacy video game and Dan Kaminsky's ominous maps of the 500,000+ networks infected with Sony's rootkit DRM:

I decided to take a tiny bit of my lunch break and cobble together my own statement on Sony's nasty anti-piracy "rootkit" (software hidden on Sony music CDs that takes control of your computer without your permission) by mashing up Dan Kaminsky's visualization of affected systems worldwide and one of the Sony PlayStation's most beloved games, Katamari Damacy.

Genius DNS hacker Dan Kaminsky designed a research project that has produced a count of the number of networks that have been infected with the malicious rootkit Sony distributed with its audio CDs: over 500,000 networks contain at least one infected machine. — Read the rest

Update: no keylogger here, according to folks who've parsed the code. Details at end of post.

A sekrit Boing Boing source in Hollywood says, "A USA network show I used to work on has distributed a screensaver to fans of the show that secretly logs their keystrokes." — Read the rest

Luke sez, "The CodeCon 2005 program has been posted. CodeCon is the the l33t3st hax0r conf. around, founded by Len Sassaman and Bram Cohen of Bittorent fame."

OzymanDNS – Advanced exploration into the use of DNS as a general purpose communication medium.

CodeCon is the wicked-nerdy technology conference held each year in San Francisco, at which all presentations must include running code, preferably code that is available for download by the con-goers. They've just posted their call for proposals.

All presentations must include working demonstrations, ideally accompanied
by source code.

Dan Kaminsky, the Jedi master of packet-level hacking, has figured out how to tunnel ssh over DNS, a stupendously weird and cool feat. Ever been at an airport or coffee shop with WiFi that redirects you over and over again to the same captive portal page no matter what you do? — Read the rest

BoingBoing pal boogah says:

LayerOne Technology Conference will be going on this Saturday and Sunday [June 12-13] at the Westin LA Airport. We've got a grip of really great speakers lined up for our first year… NTK's Danny O'Brien will be flogging his Life Hacks talk that's won over crowds at everywhere from Emerging Tech to NotCon.

BoingBoing buddy boogah says:

A few of us have been working overtime to get a little technology conference together in Los Angeles. We've tried to make LayerOne an event for both the geek set and the suit in IT and our roster of speakers can back those claims up.

Video can be thought of as having three dimensions — length, width and time. When you envision video with the third dimension transposed into depth, you get a volumentric picture of a moving image. Dan Kaminsky, a packet-obsessed crypto guy, has been monkeying with volumetric ways of visualizing the randomness — the entropy — in sets, and along the way, he's started visualizing other kinds of information. — Read the rest

More goodness from Dan Kaminsky: he's gone gold on "Paketto Keiretsu 1.0," a suite of TCP hacking tools, including this wild-ass visualizer.

Phentropy plots an arbitrarily large data source (of arbitrary data) onto a three dimensional volumetric matrix, which may then be parsed by OpenQVIS.

Dan "TCP/IP hacker" Kaminsky sez:

So I was out in Singapore, giving my "Black Ops Of TCP/IP" speech at Black Hat Asia. Stuck around a while after the con, because heh — I'd never been in Asia, let along Singapore. So, my last day out there I went to the Singapore Museum of Art, and what do I see as I walk in the door but the Mac flat panel.