It's that time of the year again: The trinity of infosec conferences Another year, another Hacker Summer Camp – the collective phrase for BSidesLV, Black Hat, and DEF CON, the infosec conference trinity that traditionally takes place around about this time of the year in Las Vegas. An estimated 40,000 people will be heading to the scorching-hot US city this week to hear all about this year's …
“the software cyber resilience lead in the UK government's Department for Science, Technology and Innovation”
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“David Stocks and Julia Wighton of PwC's cyber security and digital trust team will share details on how to deal with security incidents and track down the root cause.”
Write all log files to a second irrevocable system that can be audited in the event of a compromise of the first.
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“A must-attend keynote on Wednesday afternoon is a chat between Jen Easterly, the director of the US government's cyber security agency CISA, and Ukraine's deputy chairman of the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection”
You have got to be shi^H^H^H^H^H me
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While the con got bounced between venues a lot in it's earlier years, they eventually settled in for a good while at the one casino that realized that the good will of a small army of hackers was worth the hassles.
As a result the people from the Con would tip them off about little things like employees trying to route calls for taxis and "other" services to outside parties for a under the table promotional consideration.
As for jackpotting the houses gaming machines, I'd take a hard pass on that one, the inside of a modern casino is basically a panopticon, and you can bet all eyes are on you on the gaming floor during the con. They may even let you keep what you took out of the machine, but expect to have a shadow following you whenever you show up in Vegas, and to be able to set your watch to the "I'm sorry, but you will have to leave" from security at every modern casino anywhere in the world. Block lists aren't just for firewall rules.
Sorry but burner devices at Defcon is prob year 2000 advice. Juice jacking is not a thing despite various (US) government advice, and if your device is fully patched, its not likely someone is going to drop a zero day on you unless you are really really important (and go you for reading El Reg). Having been a couple times pre Rona, it was worth it as I was somewhere in the vicinity, esp the villages where you get to meet like mindeds. Linecon for some of the bigger rooms is very much a thing and if you are an introvert, be warned!
Quite True, Deviant Ollam did a nice video a month ago on this stupid scaremongering advice, see https://youtu.be/AsPeB6bc5ho for useful advice on how to enjoy DEFCON.
As for people having issues with crowds, an interesting comment from some of the affected was that on the last one with the mask mandate, their social anxiety was much more manageable than usual.
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