B-Sides & Defcon 2011

Vegas gets more and more jammed up with good talks every year. It took me several passes through the various schedules to narrow down what I'd like to see this year. I'm skipping Black Hat. Now that I'm no longer part of of the cash-rich and irresponsibly frivolous financial services industry, I actually have to justify the expense for these things, and Black Hat didn't make the cut. They have some fine speakers and talks, but not $1600 worth, after you factor in the repeated/dated talks, and the talks that will be available at other venues. Have fun at your security trade show, dudes!

So, these are the talks I'm hoping to get to. If history is any guide, I may make it to half. Hopefully, the return of talks broadcast over the hotel TV system will help me get more in at Defcon. There are a couple big gaps in my b-sides schedule; I am working a couple security shifts, and so I didn't put down talks for those windows.

Wednesday - B-sides

10:30 Boyd's OODA and General Predator/Prey theory - Tim Keanini
15:30 Smile for the Grenade! Camera go Bang! - Joshua Marpet & Vlad Gostom

Thursday - B-sides

10:30 Fuck the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES) - Charlie Vedaa
11:30 Cyber Fast Track - Mudge
12:30 Long Beard's Guide to Exploit Dev - Egypt & Bannedit

Friday - Defcon

9:00 - Skytalks - When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro - Databeast
12:00 - Skytalks - If you want to go phishing, you need the right bait… - Jason Malley
13:00 - Insecurity - Marc Weber Tobias
14:00 - Skytalks - Wireless Dirty Sisters – The other RF shit you aren't Looking at, and why you're going to get fscked! - Warezjoe
15:00 - Covert Post-Exploitation Forensics With Metasploit - Wesley McGrew
16:00 - Mamma Don't Let Your Babies - Patrick Engebretson & Dr. Josh Pauli
17:00 - Are You In Yet? - shrdlu (the other one)
17:30 - Kernel Exploitation - Kees Cook
18:00 - Is it 0-day or 0-care? - Panel
19:00 - We owe it all to the Hackers - Steven Levy

Saturday - Defcon

10:00 - "Whoever Fights Monsters..." - Panel
11:00 - Traps of Gold - Andrew Wilson & Michael Brooks
12:00 - Hacking and Forensicating an Oracle Database Server - David Litchfield
13:00 - Skytalks - Advanced High Security Lock Bypass and Its Implications - Steve Pordon
14:00 - Staring into the Abyss - Richard Thieme
15:00 - Metasploit vSploit Modules - Marcus J. Carey , David Rude & Will Vandevanter
16:00 - Sounds Like Botnet - Itzik Kotler & Iftach Ian Amit
17:00 - Skytalks - Contractors, Clearances, and Chaos: Tales from the Crypt - theprez98
18:00 - Big Brother on the Big Screen: Fact/Fiction? - Nicole

Sunday - Defcon

10:00 - Earth vs the Giant Spider - Rob Havelt & Wendel Guglielmetti Henrique
11:00 - Skytalks - The REAL cutting edge to hash cracking - Rick Redman
13:00 - Agnitio: the security code review Swiss army knife. Its static analysis, but not as we know it. - David Ross
15:00 - I Am Not a Doctor but I Play One on Your Network - Tim Elrod & Stefan Morris