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http://securitywatch.eweek.com/vulnerability_research/l0pht_reunion_planned_at_new_hacker_conference_1.html

By Ryan Naraine
eWEEK.com Security Watch
December 20, 2007

For the first time in a decade, members of the famous LOpht Heavy
Industries [1] hacking think tank will have a reunion of sorts at a new
Boston security conference.

According to organizers of the SOURCE Boston [2] confab, many of the
original L0pht members will be speaking on a panel for the first time in
10 years.

The members of the hacker group, founded in Boston in 1992, are
considered pioneers in security research and vulnerability disclosure.
The LOpht, which later morphed into Stake, also created and released
L0phtCrack (a password cracker for Windows NT) and famously testified
before Congress that they could shut down the entire Internet in 30
minutes.

It is not yet known if all eight final members of the L0pht (Brian
Oblivion, Kingpin, Mudge, Dildog, Weld Pond, Space Rogue, Silicosis and
John Tan) will appear on the panel of the conference, which is being
organized by people close to security vendor Veracode.

For more on the history of the group, see this CSO Online feature [3]
and this PBS.org profile [4].

[1] http://www.lopht.com/
[2] http://www.sourceboston.com/
[3] http://csoonline.com/read/040107/fea_lopht.html
[4] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cyberspace/jan-june98/l0pht_hackers.html

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