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I’ve been getting into arcade games pretty heavily this year, and my posts have reflected this for sure ;-) Today’s post is actually a request from John Spitz, who emailed me after reading some of my other video game posts - he wanted to know if there was a typical progression in the types of hardware used in arcade games over the years. The short answer is “yes” as you can see in the diagram I made at the top of this post.

I’ve been getting into arcade games pretty heavily this year, and my posts have reflected this for sure ;-) Today’s post is actually a request from John Spitz, who emailed me after reading some of my other video game posts - he wanted to know if there was a typical progression in the types of hardware used in arcade games over the years. The short answer is “yes” as you can see in the diagram I made at the top of this post.

Hi all, For the Windows 8 Preview, I want to say a massive thanks to everyone who has been submitting feedback, I’ve had over 30 bug reports/feature requests and am starting to work through them all now. Keep em coming as I am reading them all and working on getting them into the app as soon as possible. Updates: I’ve released update for both the Windows Phone, it needed it, and the Windows 8 Preview of BBC News Mobile today.


Django has a very neat feature called Multi Table Inheritance which allows you to create a ‘parent’ model with common fields and a variety of ‘child’ ones with specific fields. For example:...

Django has a very neat feature called Multi Table Inheritance which allows you to create a ‘parent’ model with common fields and a variety of ‘child’ ones with specific fields. For example:...

Spy vs Spy: Spying on Mobile Device Spyware Michael Robinson Consultant Chris Taylor Security Researcher Commercial spyware is available for mobile devices, including iPhones, Android Smartphones, BlackBerries, and Nokias. Many of the vendors claim that their software and its operation is undetectable on the smartphones after setup is complete. Is this true? Is there a way to identify whether or not some jerk installed spyware on y....

Rapid Blind SQL Injection Exploitation with BBQSQL Ben Toews Security Consultant, Neohapsis Scott Behrens Security Consultant, Neohapsis Blind SQL injection can be a pain to exploit. When the available tools work they work well, but when they don't you have to write something custom. This is time-consuming and tedious. This talk will be introducing a new tool called BBQSQL that attempts to address these concerns. This talk will sta....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Robinson/DEFCON-20-Robinson-Spy-vs-Spy.pdf Spy vs Spy: Spying on Mobile Device Spyware Michael Robinson Consultant Chris Taylor Security Researcher Commercial spyware is available for mobile devices, including iPhones, Android Smartphones, BlackBerries, and Nokias. Many of the vendors claim th....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Toews-Behrens/DEFCON-20-Toews-Behrens-BBQSQL.pdf Extras:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Toews-Behrens/Extras.zip Rapid Blind SQL Injection Exploitation with BBQSQL Ben Toews Security Consultant, Neohapsis Scott Behrens Security Consultant,....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Robinson/DEFCON-20-Robinson-Spy-vs-Spy.pdf Spy vs Spy: Spying on Mobile Device Spyware Michael Robinson Consultant Chris Taylor Security Researcher Commercial spyware is available for mobile devices, including iPhones, Android Smartphones, BlackBerries, and Nokias. Many of the vendors claim th....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Toews-Behrens/DEFCON-20-Toews-Behrens-BBQSQL.pdf Extras:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Toews-Behrens/Extras.zip Rapid Blind SQL Injection Exploitation with BBQSQL Ben Toews Security Consultant, Neohapsis Scott Behrens Security Consultant,....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Robinson/DEFCON-20-Robinson-Spy-vs-Spy.pdf Spy vs Spy: Spying on Mobile Device Spyware Michael Robinson Consultant Chris Taylor Security Researcher Commercial spyware is available for mobile devices, including iPhones, Android Smartphones, BlackBerries, and Nokias. Many of the vendors claim th....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Toews-Behrens/DEFCON-20-Toews-Behrens-BBQSQL.pdf Extras:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Toews-Behrens/Extras.zip Rapid Blind SQL Injection Exploitation with BBQSQL Ben Toews Security Consultant, Neohapsis Scott Behrens Security Consultant,....

Scylla: Because There's no Patch for Human Stupidity Sergio 'flacman' Valderrama Consulting Manager, 2Secure Carlos Alberto Rodriguez Co-Founder, 2Secure When there's no technical vulnerability to exploit, you should try to hack what humans left for you, and believe me, this always works. Scylla provides all the power of what a real audit, intrusion, exclusion and analysis tool needs, giving the possibility of scanning misconf....

Copy of the Whitepaper for this talk is here: http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Flacman/DEFCON-20-Flacman-Scylla-WP.pdf DScylla: Because There's no Patch for Human Stupidity Sergio 'flacman' Valderrama Consulting Manager, 2Secure Carlos Alberto Rodriguez Co-Founder, 2Secure When there's no technical vulnerability to exploit, you should try to hack what humans left for y....

Copy of the Whitepaper for this talk is here: http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Flacman/DEFCON-20-Flacman-Scylla-WP.pdf DScylla: Because There's no Patch for Human Stupidity Sergio 'flacman' Valderrama Consulting Manager, 2Secure Carlos Alberto Rodriguez Co-Founder, 2Secure When there's no technical vulnerability to exploit, you should try to hack what humans left for y....

Copy of the Whitepaper for this talk is here: http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Flacman/DEFCON-20-Flacman-Scylla-WP.pdf DScylla: Because There's no Patch for Human Stupidity Sergio 'flacman' Valderrama Consulting Manager, 2Secure Carlos Alberto Rodriguez Co-Founder, 2Secure When there's no technical vulnerability to exploit, you should try to hack what humans left for y....

Programming Weird Machines with ELF Metadata Rebecca "bx" Shapiro PhD student, Dartmouth College Sergey Bratus Research Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College The Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) is omnipresent; related OS and library code is run whenever processes are set up and serviced (e.g., dynamically linked). The loader is the stage manager for every executable. Hardly anyone appreciates the work that the ELF backstage c....

We Have You by the Gadgets Mickey Shkatov Toby Kohlenberg Senior InfoSec Specialist, Fortune 500 company Why send someone an executable when you can just send them a sidebar gadget? We will be talking about the windows gadget platform and what the nastyness that can be done with it, how are gadgets made, how are they distributed and more importantly their weaknesses. Gadgets are comprised of JS, CSS and HTML and are application tha....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Shapiro-Bratus/DEFCON-20-Shapiro-Bratus-Constructing-ELF-Metadata.pdf Programming Weird Machines with ELF Metadata Rebecca "bx" Shapiro PhD student, Dartmouth College Sergey Bratus Research Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College The Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) is omnipresent; related ....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Shkatov-Kohlenberg/DEFCON-20-Shkatov-Kohlenberg-Have-You-By-The-Gadgets.pdf We Have You by the Gadgets Mickey Shkatov Toby Kohlenberg Senior InfoSec Specialist, Fortune 500 company Why send someone an executable when you can just send them a sidebar gadget? We will be talking about the windows....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Shapiro-Bratus/DEFCON-20-Shapiro-Bratus-Constructing-ELF-Metadata.pdf Programming Weird Machines with ELF Metadata Rebecca "bx" Shapiro PhD student, Dartmouth College Sergey Bratus Research Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College The Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) is omnipresent; related ....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Shkatov-Kohlenberg/DEFCON-20-Shkatov-Kohlenberg-Have-You-By-The-Gadgets.pdf We Have You by the Gadgets Mickey Shkatov Toby Kohlenberg Senior InfoSec Specialist, Fortune 500 company Why send someone an executable when you can just send them a sidebar gadget? We will be talking about the windows....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Shapiro-Bratus/DEFCON-20-Shapiro-Bratus-Constructing-ELF-Metadata.pdf Programming Weird Machines with ELF Metadata Rebecca "bx" Shapiro PhD student, Dartmouth College Sergey Bratus Research Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College The Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) is omnipresent; related ....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Shkatov-Kohlenberg/DEFCON-20-Shkatov-Kohlenberg-Have-You-By-The-Gadgets.pdf We Have You by the Gadgets Mickey Shkatov Toby Kohlenberg Senior InfoSec Specialist, Fortune 500 company Why send someone an executable when you can just send them a sidebar gadget? We will be talking about the windows....

Botnets Die Hard - Owned and Operated Aditya K. Sood Security Practitioner - Isec Partners | PhD Candidate MSU Richard J. Enbody Associate Professor, Dep't of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University Botnet designs are becoming more robust and sophisticated with the passage of time. While the security world is grappling with the security threats posed by Zeus and SpyEye, a new breed of botnets has begun to flou....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Sood-Enbody/DEFCON-20-Sood-Enbody-Botnets-Die-Hard.PDF.pdf Botnets Die Hard - Owned and Operated Aditya K. Sood Security Practitioner - Isec Partners | PhD Candidate MSU Richard J. Enbody Associate Professor, Dep't of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University Botnet designs....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Sood-Enbody/DEFCON-20-Sood-Enbody-Botnets-Die-Hard.PDF.pdf Botnets Die Hard - Owned and Operated Aditya K. Sood Security Practitioner - Isec Partners | PhD Candidate MSU Richard J. Enbody Associate Professor, Dep't of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University Botnet designs....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Sood-Enbody/DEFCON-20-Sood-Enbody-Botnets-Die-Hard.PDF.pdf Botnets Die Hard - Owned and Operated Aditya K. Sood Security Practitioner - Isec Partners | PhD Candidate MSU Richard J. Enbody Associate Professor, Dep't of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University Botnet designs....

How to Channel Your Inner Henry Rollins Jayson E. Street CIO, Stratagem 1 Solutions Have you ever found yourself thinking "Boy I sure wish I could witness a guy rant for 20 minutes and barely come up for air" or maybe "I sure wish I could have seen firsthand an old time tent revival with a preacher screaming at me" Well then great news you are in luck. This is a talk on not just how we need to take a hard look at how we interact with....

Can Twitter Really Help Expose Psychopath Killers' Traits? Chris "TheSuggmeister" Sumner The Online Privacy Foundation Randall Wald Recent research has identified links between Psychopaths and the language they use (Hancock et al 2011), with media reports suggesting that such knowledge could be applied to social networks in order help Law Enforcement Agencies expose "Psychopath killers' traits". This is the first public study to re....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Street/DEFCON-20-Street-Rockstar.pdf How to Channel Your Inner Henry Rollins Jayson E. Street CIO, Stratagem 1 Solutions Have you ever found yourself thinking "Boy I sure wish I could witness a guy rant for 20 minutes and barely come up for air" or maybe "I sure wish I could have seen firsthand a....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Sumner/DEFCON-20-Sumner-Can-Twitter-Help-Expose-Psychopath-Killers-Traits.pdf Can Twitter Really Help Expose Psychopath Killers' Traits? Chris "TheSuggmeister" Sumner The Online Privacy Foundation Randall Wald Recent research has identified links between Psychopaths and the language they use (....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Street/DEFCON-20-Street-Rockstar.pdf How to Channel Your Inner Henry Rollins Jayson E. Street CIO, Stratagem 1 Solutions Have you ever found yourself thinking "Boy I sure wish I could witness a guy rant for 20 minutes and barely come up for air" or maybe "I sure wish I could have seen firsthand a....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Sumner/DEFCON-20-Sumner-Can-Twitter-Help-Expose-Psychopath-Killers-Traits.pdf Can Twitter Really Help Expose Psychopath Killers' Traits? Chris "TheSuggmeister" Sumner The Online Privacy Foundation Randall Wald Recent research has identified links between Psychopaths and the language they use (....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Street/DEFCON-20-Street-Rockstar.pdf How to Channel Your Inner Henry Rollins Jayson E. Street CIO, Stratagem 1 Solutions Have you ever found yourself thinking "Boy I sure wish I could witness a guy rant for 20 minutes and barely come up for air" or maybe "I sure wish I could have seen firsthand a....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Sumner/DEFCON-20-Sumner-Can-Twitter-Help-Expose-Psychopath-Killers-Traits.pdf Can Twitter Really Help Expose Psychopath Killers' Traits? Chris "TheSuggmeister" Sumner The Online Privacy Foundation Randall Wald Recent research has identified links between Psychopaths and the language they use (....

Off-Grid Communications with Android: Meshing the Mobile World Josh "m0nk" Thomas Breaker of Things @ The MITRE Corporation Jeff "stoker" Robble MITRE Corporation Before they were a team, the members of project SPAN thought it was highly limiting to only be able to network smart phones over standard Wi-Fi or with a Cellular infrastructure. Honestly, the SPAN team isn't a big fan of infrastructure-based networks in general. They wan....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/m0nk/DEFCON-20-m0nk-Off-Grid-communications-with-Android.pdf Whitepaper: http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/m0nk/DEFCON-20-m0nk-Off-Grid-communications-with-Android-WP.pdf Off-Grid Communications with Android: Meshing the Mobile World Josh "m0nk" T....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/m0nk/DEFCON-20-m0nk-Off-Grid-communications-with-Android.pdf Whitepaper: http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/m0nk/DEFCON-20-m0nk-Off-Grid-communications-with-Android-WP.pdf Off-Grid Communications with Android: Meshing the Mobile World Josh "m0nk" T....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/m0nk/DEFCON-20-m0nk-Off-Grid-communications-with-Android.pdf Whitepaper: http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/m0nk/DEFCON-20-m0nk-Off-Grid-communications-with-Android-WP.pdf Off-Grid Communications with Android: Meshing the Mobile World Josh "m0nk" T....

Safes and Containers: Insecurity Design Excellence Marc Weber Tobias Investigative Attorney and Security Specialist, Security.org Matt Fiddler Security Specialist, Security.org Tobias Bluzmanis Security Specialist, Security.org Insecure designs in physical security locks, safes, and other products have consequences in terms of security, liability, and even loss of life. Marc Weber Tobias and his colleagues Tobias Bluzmanis and Ma....

Copy of the slides for this talk are here:http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/dc-20/presentations/Tobias-Bluzmanis-Fiddler/DEFCON-20-Tobias-Bluzmanis-Fiddler-Safes-and-Containers.pdf Safes and Containers: Insecurity Design Excellence Marc Weber Tobias Investigative Attorney and Security Specialist, Security.org Matt Fiddler Security Specialist, Security.org Tobias Bluzmanis Security Specia....

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