Infosec

I gave another talk for this year’s CarolinaCon 12 called “Never Go Full Spectrum Cyber”. For this talk I focused on mistakes “hackers” and even some InfoSec professionals have made and then a short summary at the end of OpSec lessons that could have prevented the mistakes covered earlier in the talk.

The talk slides are here. [UPDATE: The talk video is here.]

I referenced OpSec work and talks done by the grugq. You can find his site I mentioned in my talk at grugq.github.io. The grugq’s talk I also mentioned is called OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd.

I’m still recovering from Vegas even a week later. So I’m just going to link a bunch of things you should check out and mention a few cool things that happened or that I saw.

• PowerShell Empire - written in my two favorite scripting languages, may replace Meterpreter someday.
• Modern Honeypot Network - build your own cloud based network of honeypots that feed results back into a centralized server.
• HoneyDrive - an okay honeypot VM image (if you for some reason want to run your honeypot in VirtualBox or VMWare)

I also put together a DarkNet badge, walked until my knee gave out, attended a lot of events. DefCon itself was overcrowded, I stayed out of the talks and main halls and focused on SkyTalks, and the villages and competition areas. The DefCon biohacking village was to me the most interesting new thing this year.

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.