Tag: defcon

  • Vegas 2012 by the Numbers

    So, I’m finally back from a very long week in Vegas. How long you ask? well, here are some numbers that start to reflect how it felt: Number of days in Vegas: 6+1 (un-planned extra day due to a missed flight) Number of conferences attended: 3.5 (BlackHat, BSidesLV, Defcon, and IOAsis counts as a 1/2…

  • This one time, at Defcon… (a blast from the past)

    Wow, there’s a blog here… Lucky for me there are other people who write new content that somehow relates to this blog so I have a chance to point to them and say “cool stuff, look there!”. My good friend Itzik Kotler has just written a blog post about bypassing DLP systems using some of…

  • SexyDefense comes to Vegas!

    One of the best things that probably happened to the research on SexyDefense is that it has been accepted to BlackHat Briefings in Las Vegas! It is truly one of the highest indicators for me that we are on the right track in making some change in the defensive paradigm, especially in light of the…

  • Intelligence on Ashiyane and the Iranian Cyber Army

    One of my favorite OSINT resources internet-haganah have opened up a new thread on their forums that are dedicated to Iran, called Ashiyane. This is basically the hacker forum that I was researching a couple of years ago (see my DefCon18 talk, and here, and here). The forum thread is here: http://forum.internet-haganah.com/showthread.php?440-Ashiyane And an interesting intelligence profile…

  • Upcoming conferences schedule: August-November 2011

    So, as if I didn’t have enough flights this year, here is where you can find me and hang out / grab a beer / talk shop / hack: August BSidesLV (August 3-4). If you are in Vegas in August, this is THE place to be. I’ll be running a couple of talks there – one…