Archive for August 5th, 2013

DEFCON 21 update: August 5, 2013.

Monday, August 5th, 2013

Yeah, I know, I’ve been quiet. Much of Friday’s blogging time was eaten by Bluehost instability, and Saturday and Sunday were busy.

But I do have some updates and links.

I’m going to cut things off here for right now. I’m still trying to find links to some of the other presentations I mentioned (in particular, I’d love a link of some sort to Anch’s “Pentesters Toolkit” if anyone has one) and will post updates as they come in. Depending on what I dig up, there may be a second post tomorrow. In the meantime, this should keep you busy.

Holy crap!

Monday, August 5th, 2013

Breaking news: the Washington Post has been sold.

To Jeff Bezos. Yeah, that Jeff Bezos.

For $250 million in cash. First reaction: the WP was only worth that much?

Second reaction: is this part of some grand Amazon content strategy? Well…

Seattle-based Amazon will have no role in the purchase; Bezos himself will buy the news organization and become its sole owner when the sale is completed, probably within 60 days. The Post Co. will change to a new, still-undecided name and continue as a publicly traded company without The Post thereafter.

Or, to put it another way: reply hazy, ask again later.