Infosec

Quick summary of a few cons I went to. I went to ISSA conference in Charlotte earlier with FALE, but more recently I went to BSides Asheville as a volunteer. I also participated in their CTF with some Cha-Ha members, and we came very close to winning, but placed second. Some friends and I camped out isntead of staying in a hotel, listened to bluegrass in a mountain bar and saw some talks, etc.

I will be attending CarolinaCon again this year with FALE since we are run the LockPick Village. The big difference this year will be I am giving a talk as well. This will be my first talk at a conference of any kind.

Unless something changes I’m scheduled Friday night(Mar 20th) at 10pm. Giving a talk at all was almost unexpected and only came about because they had extended the call for papers by a few days when not enough talks were received. I and several of the FALE members rallied for more speakers online and submitted our own talks. Mine was completely off the wall and related to a treasure trove of terrible but funny defacement pages I’d discovered. I hope to give an account of defacement pages, a short history of them, and deconstruct them with humorous results. I was surprised when it was actually excepted, especially since a lot of talks were submitted and some rejected.