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Week 23 In Review

Events Related Defcon 19  Quals For the third year, I competed with team Shellphish in the Defcon quals. We pulled through with some amazing points at the end to finish in 8th place. My successful contributions, however, were really only with respect to Forensics 100 and 300 Defcon 19 Quals Forensics 100 and Forensics 300 [...]

Week 12 In Review – 2011

Events Related Outerzone 2011 Hacker Con - irongeek.com The following are videos of the presentations from the Outerzone 2011 hacker conference. Resources web.config Security Analyzer This little beauty let’s you feed in a Web.config then it comes back and tells you everything you’ve done wrong in the world of security configuration. web.config Security Analyzer - [...]

Week 6 In Review – 2011

Events Related ShmooCon CTF 2011 Ghost In the Shellcode - ghostintheshellcode.com Congratulations to ppp for winning the second GitS CTF! The game board as it was when the contest ended is now live, though answers are not accepted, nor are any of the exploitable services running. Just like the real thing - blog.uncommonsensesecurity.com The goal is [...]

Week 5 In Review – 2011

Events Related ShmooCon 2011 Getting to ShmooCon each year is always challenging (as is trying to get home). Mother Nature seems to enjoy disrupting the travel to and from the conference, which is held in Washington, D.C in January or February of each year. ShmooCon 2011 - intrepidusgroup.com ShmooCon 2011 Conference Wrap Up - blog.tenablesecurity.com [...]

Week 4 In Review – 2011

Events Related Shmoocon 2011 ShmooCon 2011: Team Joch vs. Android: The Final Showdown - blog.c22.cc Shmoocon 2011: Printers gone wild! - blog.c22.cc ShmooCon 2011: Attacking 3G and 4G mobile telecommunications networks - blog.c22.cc ShmooCon 2011: Defeating mTANS for profit - blog.c22.com ShmooCon 2011: URL enlargement: Is it for you? - blog.c22.cc Resources Train Like You [...]

Week 3 in Review – 2011

Events Related: A Shmoocon Preview - blogs.macafee.com At about a third of the size of a larger conference like Black Hat, it’s much easier to talk to the speakers without fighting with a crowd. Past years have had good presentations on mobile phone security and this year is no exception. Black Hat DC 2011 We are [...]

Week 2 in Review – 2011

Events Related Shmoocon CTF Warm up Contest - JavaScrimpd - blog.stalkr.net Last week-end was ShmooCon CTF Warmup Contest. Three challenges, the last one being an ELF binary + hostname of a server. Tools OWASP Zed Attack Proxy 1.2.0 Released - vulnerabilitydatabase.com/toolswatch/2011 The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding [...]

Week 1 in Review – 2011

Events Related: Derbycon I will admit there is limited spacing, we rented the entire second floor of the Hyatt and tickets will go fast. new hacker con, hell of speaker list: DerbyCon - reddit.com Derbycon Teaser Video and website launch date announced - secmaniac.com ShmooCon CTF Warmup 2011 - cylab.cmu.edu A couple of PPP members [...]

Week 43 in Review – 2010

Events Related: ToorCon related news Some Results from the ToorCon Security Conference - connectedinternet.co.uk Hackers, security researchers at the ToorCon security conference in San Diego showed how easy it can be to poke holes in hardware and software with the right combination of tools, know-how, and good old fashioned cat curiosity. ToorCon: New Apps, Old [...]

Week 40 in Review – 2010

Events Related: Ekoparty 2010 Wrap-Up - dvlabs.tippingpoint.com The reason that Ekoparty is the premier conference in South America can be summed up in one word: collaboration. Metasploit Unleashed, Again! - offensive-security.com As new features are being added to the Metasploit Framework, we are attempting to add them to the Wiki in order to keep our [...]