Via the Erratasec blog: Race to Zero. From the webpage: The Race to Zero contest is being held during Defcon 16 at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, 8-10 August 2008. The event involves contestants being given a sample set of viruses and malcode to modify and upload through the contest portal. The portal passes…

After DefCon we might have a new debugger based on Olly and with Python scripting support. A nice little (free) tool to view / edit PE files, with plugin support: CFF explorer Update: it seems that the debugger (btw, de-bugger, what an interesting word) will be made public on August the 3rd.