BSidesLV News

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Jun
17

Logo Contest Follow-up

You may have noticed that we recently changed our twitter icon. For the past few years, BSidesLV has held a contest on twitter, to come up with the year’s Logo. The Logo lands on the badge, the tshirts, the printing […]

Jun
07

FUN WITH WEBSOCKETS USING SOCKPUPPET – The second installment of the Tripwire series of BSidesLV Proving Ground Speaker interviews, by Anthony M. Freed

http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/it-security-data-protection/cyber-security/bsideslv-preview-fun-with-websockets-using-socket-puppet/   MAY 28, 2013 9:00 PM PUBLISHED BY ANTHONY M FREED   Security BSides Las Vegas – which will be held on July 31st & August 1st – is fast approaching, and we are continuing our series highlighting some of the fantastic […]

Jun
07

So you want to present – Cross-posted w/permission from Jericho

http://jerichoattrition.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/so-you-want-to-present/ So you want to present… June 7, 2013 by jerichoattrition in Gripes, InfoSec and tagged CTF, Expert, James Arlen, Myrcurial,secore.info, Zack Fasel | Permalink I’ve been attending InfoSec conferences since DEF CON 2, in 1994. Add up all the conferences I have been to, and all the presentations I have seen (in person […]

May
30

OMENSCAN – The first installment of the Tripwire series of BSidesLV Proving Ground Speaker interviews, by Anthony M. Freed

http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/incident-detection/bsideslv-preview-the-object-monitor-for-enhanced-network-security-omens/   BSIDESLV PREVIEW: THE OBJECT MONITOR FOR ENHANCED NETWORK SECURITY (OMENS) MAY 22, 2013 9:00 PM PUBLISHED BY ANTHONY M FREED Security BSides Las Vegas – which this year will be held at the Tuscany Suites & Casino on July 31st & […]

May
30

BSidesLV Badge Challenge 3 w/answer

Our third challenge was a columnar transposition cipher, whose Key was LASVEGAS, which gave you 8 columns reordered to 5 1 6 8 3 4 2 7.    Deciphered was: InthetradethelegitimatetradeIv eneverdonepornowecalltherawpro ductdrydreamsDrydreamsareneura loutputfromlevelsofconsciousne ssthatmostpeoplecanonlyaccessi nsleepButartiststhekindIworkwi thattheAutonomicPilotareableto breakthesurfacetensiondivedown deepdownandoutoutintoJungsseaa ndbringbackwelldreamsKeepitsim pleIguesssomeartistshavealways donethatinwhatevermediumbutneu […]

May
30

BSidesLV Badge Challenge 2 w/answer

On 15May, @mrtoph once again wote us another challenge for you to solve in exchange for a badge. This challenge was this password protected .zip file, followed by the clue: http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3uezc7/ Writing a zip cracker would get you through the […]

May
15

BSidesLV Puzzle Challenge 1 w/answer

As promised, (although a few days late) here is the first BSidesLV Challenge Puzzle, provided by @mrtoph: The link brought you to this picture: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6yDKxsKYPWkU3ZROWdQcHNkMlE/edit Changing the extention to .zip and unzipping gets you this .wav file: Lo-Tek Open the […]

May
10

A BSides London “Rookie Track” mentee offers tips and personal insight from his first talk.

http://www.securityninja.co.uk/ninja-news-and-updates/giving-your-first-security-conference-talk/   MAY 9, 2013  |  WRITTEN BY SECURITY NINJA  |   NINJA NEWS AND UPDATES   |   1    Hi, For the past few weeks, I’ve been working towards delivering a presentation at the BSides London rookie track, one which I’m now expanding into a longer talk for […]

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