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Hey All,

I wanted to do a brief repost over here to direct everyone to the 5-part non-technical blog series that I did on cons (for the most part) and con experiences. This was my contribution to blogging following Blackhat / DEFCON.

1. Being a Research Engineer at a Blackhat Booth
2. Competitors Can Be Civil
3. Why DEFCON Sucks
4. Why the Social Aspect of Cons is Important
5. What Can Be Done to Improve the Cons.

Enjoy!

Hey Everyone,

So Blackhat/Defcon is behind us... Instead of blogging about the talks, I've taken a different approach and I've been doing some non-technical blogging. In the end it will be a 5-part series, but the first three are already up.

They are:

1. Being a Research Engineer at a Blackhat Booth
2. Competitors Can Be Civil
3. Why DEFCON Sucks

The last two will most likely appear early next week.

Also, now that Blackhat/ DEFCON are over... What's next? As far as I know the next Con I'll be attending is SecTor. Last year was the first SecTor and I had the opportunity to attend. SecTor will actually make it's way into my upcoming blog series (from above) on the VERT Blog. That being said, I wanted to remind people that it's coming up, after all... it's held in Toronto and I live in Toronto, so the more people that attend, the more people I get to meet.

For anyone who didn't get a chance to visit SecTor last year and is curious about the quality / style of the talks, I tried to write-up everything that I saw.

• Overview
• Growing the Security "Profession"
• TCP/IP Perversion
• Zen and the Art of Cybersecurity
• Web Application Works - The Future of Browser Insecurity
• Exploit-Me Series
• Defending Layer 8
• Black Ops 2007: DNS Rebinding Attacks
• Hacking Hollywood
• Modern Trends in Network Fingerprinting.

Of course, these are biased because they're all my opinion, but I do recommend the Con for anyone that can make it up this way. Let me know if you'll be coming up and we'll make arrangements to get together for a beer.

Well, I'm leaving shortly for Blackhat and Defcon. For half the time at Blackhat I'll be working the nCircle booth, feel free to say 'Hey'. Look me up while you're there, or message / email me and I'll pass along my cell so that we can text. I'll also be updating twitter as much as I can and blogging when I can.

This is my first time heading down to Vegas so I'm looking forward to having quite a bit of fun.