Hackers of CypherCon - Season 2 (2019)

In this very informative panel, Joe Cicero examines phishing bait for enterprise protection. Subjects covered are: the red flag concept, identifying phishing email basics, examining headers, examining attachments and links. Additional topics covered are: the differences between a legit email, spam, marketing and phishing.

Brad talk's about phone phreaking back in the late 1980's, until the mid 1990's. He will cover what phreaking was, why it worked, and why it was done. Devices used, the theory behind them, and some entertaining stories about those devices are covered. He will cover the slew of 'secret' numbers that existed in the phone system and discuss the decline in phreaking with the newer versions of ESS.

The shift to the cloud is making it more difficult for security teams to control what happens in their organizations and secure systems. The solution is more security tools, more security people, and ever-inventive ways to reign in your environment. We'll talk about how engineering automation to create a culture of empowerment, self-reliance and trust can result in better security outcomes.

Bug Bounties and Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP) are one of the fastest growing, most popular ways for companies to engage with the security research community and uncover unknown security vulnerabilities. This talk will explore how the law interacts with bug bounties, VDP, anti-hacking laws, bounty legalese myths, and contract standardization efforts widely adopted across the industry.

This talk will cover the basics of using the user-api to automate functions in Hashtopolis. Connecting to an HTP instance, creating hashlists, creating attacks, recovering plaintext, user creation and more will be covered.

Amazing new A.I. based services from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft let organizations rely on automated technology to crawl through their cloud-based data to identify sensitive info, security weaknesses, and hacking attempts. In this talk, Ed will analyze security implications, ethical, business, and privacy issues they raise as cloud-based A.I. intertwines itself in our lives deeper every day.

There are 2 camps of attackers: low skilled opportunists (script kiddies) and APT - Advanced Persistent Threats (funded organized crime, nation states). In between lurks a skilled persistent threat, capable of doing even more damage. These adversaries require human responders to identify, track, and oppose. Understand the constraints of the persistent threat, and you can learn to counter them.

Wireless pentesting typically requires physical proximity to a target which requires time, limited resources, and constant traveling. Eric and Matt have pioneered an inexpensive device to covertly perform wireless pentests anywhere on earth. In this talk, they'll discuss why they built it, how it works, and why they think it will revolutionize wireless pentesting.

The university security club had its ups and downs between boring meetings and inaccessibility to newcomers. It improved with a tighter meeting format, approachable 24-7 internal CTF, and internal documentation. There was better attendance, more people staying after meetings, and freshmen successfully completing projects with upperclassman mentorship. Interested? Learn more by watching this video.

Werewolves attack? We have silver bullets. Vampires attack? We have holy water. Criminal hackers attack? We have encryption. Or at least, that's how we'd like it to play out. The villains come and the heroes beat them back. But too often, encryption is like water without the holy, bullets without the silver. The configuration is wrong, or the code is incomplete, or other simple flaws trip us up. This talk will cover how and where to architect for encryption to get real protection.