After 8 years of Security B-Sides Rochester, it’s time for me to turn it over to new leadership that wants to keep the conference going. It’s exciting that people still want to. My role as of recent has been …
UPDATE: The source repository for all this code is hosted here: https://github.com/antitree/bsidesroc2017ctf
Check out the previous 1, 2, 3 and 4 for the other CTF challenges.
Rebound Attack I admit this this was the …
Check out the previous 1, 2, and 3 for the other CTF challenges.
Hop Till You Drop The original plan for this one was to show how you can setup an exit node to allow single hop circuits – in other words, you …
This is a continuation of the previous posts talking about BSidesROC onion related CTF challenges.
Port of Onion (PoO) I don’t think anyone got this one mostly because I think they were expecting that it was going …
This is a continuation of the previous post talking about BSidesROC onion related CTF challenges.
Double Ontonion One team figured this one out. The point of this challenge is to exemplify a common problem with onion …
Now that BSidesROC is over and the CTF is closed, I can share some of the details about the Onions CTF category that I made. I think the feedback was that a lot of the challenges were too hard or they were …
Our little hacker conference that usually draws about 400 people is happening again on 4-21 and 4-22. If you want the song and dance about all the things we have planned, you can check out the website. I want to cover …
It’s another year of BSidesROC, a local hacker con that we put together. Our sixth year actually. Not everyone really cares about how BSidesROC has changed over the years but it’s hard not to at least mention them for …
BSidesROC is over. I thought it might be interesting to give a behind-the-scenes look at some of the stuff that makes BSidesROC run.
OPs We have “Ops”. A few years ago we decided to try to organize BSides like an IRC …
Rochester’s version of a Security B-Sides is coming up next week. There’s a rush to finalize everything and there might be a question about this new event I’ve referenced as “Privacy Workshop”, “OPSEC Training”, or just …
For a few years now, I’ve been stating my plans for the rest of the year, and reviewing how the previous year went. Here’s the review:
Last Year Major Con Presentation One of my goals was to be accepted into a “Major …
BSidesROC is over. There’s no reason to really give you a blow by blow but I think it might be entertaining to see some of the feedback we received from attendees. Both years that we’ve done BSidesROC we’ve sent out a …
BSidesROC is this Saturday at 8am. Holy crap. I wanted to give a final post before the con so you can figure out what to expect the day of the event. If you haven’t signed up, you should get a ticket right now. Do so on …
There’s only a few days left for this years BSidesROC on 5/12/12. “Rochester’s first and only hacker con”. « Do you know why we say that? Not because we’re the only computer security conference, and not because we …