Like many in the industry, we are mentally preparing for the trip out to Las Vegas for the US’s crowning trio of big security conferences: BSidesLV, Black Hat USA, and DEF CON. Every year tens of thousands make the annual pilgrimage to the “Hacker Summer Camp” trifecta to see friends, learn from the smorgasbord of tasks and trainings, and share their knowledge far and wide. Each year we at the ThinkstScapes HQ find great content worth highlighting from these longstanding …
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Every August, 1000s of people from all over the world consciously decide to brave the balmy 40C/100F+ desert to learn, share, and socialize at the trifecta of Hacker conferences. Whereas Black Hat and DEF CON attendees have been making the sojourn for decades, 2024 marks the 13th year since BSides Las Vegas was added to the mix, lovingly referred to as the “Hacker Summer Camp”. With such a overwhelming buffet of content, we thought it might help to share the …
This year we gave a talk at BlackHat titled: Bring back the Honeypots. You can grab a quickly annotated version of the slides from [here] As usual, we had waaaaaay more content than time (which should have been expected with about 142 slides and multiple demos) but we like to live dangerously.. The linked slides are annotated, so you should be able to gather the gist of our thoughts, but some of them (especially the demos) do require their own …
We gave 2 talks at Troopers15 this year. Marco & Azhar talked about Sockpuppets and Censorship 2.0. And i gave a somewhat hand-wavy talk titled: “The hard thing about the hard things“ (Some pretty smart people seemed to like them, so its probably worth a quick watch) …
Early last year we presented at 44con with a talk titled: “Penetration Testing considered harmful today“. 44con have just released the video so we figured it was worth a quick recap (for anyone not willing to tolerate the whiny voice!) The original slides (in PDF) are available (here) The central thesis of the talk is that penetration testing has established itself as a necessary activity for securing a network and is now pushed forward by a multi million dollar industry despite …
We wanted to quickly announce the availability of http://cc.thinkst.com (a resource in need of it’s own domain & a better name.) CC is a simple application that aims to give us a single point where one can search and browse infosec conference talks and materials*. Quick OverviewOne of the cool things about having all of this data in a central db is that we are just as easily able to search by topic (http://cc.thinkst.com/searchMore/foo/) as we are by speaker (http://cc.thinkst.com/searchMore/halvar/)Finding …
In the movie Sneakers, there is a defining moment when Robert Redford rearranges Scrabble tiles to figure out that ‘SETEC ASTRONOMY’ is actually an anagram. With this in mind, I give you: SETEC CONFER MOAN (Yo!) (Click for full size) I’m not saying that InfoSec Conferences are bad (although many a battered liver would disagree), but what i am saying is that we don’t seem to be improving our security posture at the same rate as we seem to be …
This weekend we held our 2nd ever ZaCon, The Conference in need of a tagline! ZaCon aims specifically at growing the South African InfoSec Research scene by giving locals a place to teach, learn and grow. The talk had people flying in from Durban, CapeTown and even Grahamstown, and almost doubled last year’s attendance. If nothing else, The coffee service was an unmistakable win! My talk this year was called “Fig Leaf Security”, and was aimed at saying some of …