News

UDaily wrote an article about TCB which just got published today. Link

Well we came, we saw, we con'd. Shmoocon was great for all of us and we enjoyed everyone we met. We had a couple trip ups in our talk but overall it went great. We also took 8th in the Hack competition and we're in 2nd until the very end (we should have read the questions more thoroughly). We also had several members make it to the top 16 of the Halo competition and one member played in the final round. The crew will be returning from DC in a few hours and then over the next week slowly releasing their code. If you would like to contact the group please shoot a line to: afterburn at udarknet dot com or any member's account at that same address. Looking forward to hearing from everyone out there! Stop by our IRC server @ udarknet.com (port 6000 or port 6667 w/ SSL) and say hi! Until next time.

So here is the news:

• The Circuit Breakers recently met with Motorola's security division. The meeting went quite well and we are currently in talks with them as to future projects to cooperate on.
• The final countdown for Shmoocon 2009 has begun. Rooms are booked and are barcodes are in hand. Now the only question: how are we going to get there? Say what's that big white thing Nick is driving at us? Hopefully it's registered in time!
• Our CSS is not compatible with IE - if someone has time they will look into it but I've tried it on a lab machine and it does not cripple the site (just makes it look stupid)
• drk and gang have left for Flordia for the week. We are on our own…what could possibly go wrong?
• grungy did not brake his toe and has recovered from the incident. hal0 however is still in emotional recovery however.
• The roof leaks in our lab. Hopefully it will stop and we won't loose any more equipment.
• It's set to snow tomorrow. That means the lab may start leaking again. Hopefully this time no one leaves anything under the giant hole in the ceiling.
• No one visits our site, so we don't know who we're talking to…

That's all for now…

The Shmoocon schedule is now officially online. Our talk will be following a similar talk being presented by Travis Goodspeed. Travis is known for his work with attacks performed against the MSP430 as well as other hardware accomplishments. His talk will begin at a very low level implementation and work it's way up to the point of systems integration. While there will be some slight overlap the two talks will hopefully give the audience a great idea on how to get started on construction of their own sensor nodes. That's all for now!

The Circuit Breakers will be presenting at Shmoocon 2009. The talk is entitled “Off the Shelf Security - Meeting Crime with an Open Source Mind” and will be occurring on Saturday, February 7th 2009 at 4:00 pm EST on the Build It! track. The abstract will be posted shortly with more details to follow. afterburn, hal0, and teknick will be giving the talk but all members of the group will hopefully be there. CVORG will also be there as well so should be a fun time. Hope to see you all there!

EDIT: Abstract is now online!