Defcon 26

Defcon 26 is less than a month away! Last year was the first time that the convention would be held at the Cesar Palace. By personal experience it felt as though some of the talks were spread far apart from one another. Let's hope that this year they've organized and that The Cesar Palace has finished with construction. Defcon has released the list of villages this year:

Internet of Things
Crypto and Privacy
Wireless
Biohacking
R00tz Asylum
Hardware Hacking
Lockpicking
Social Engineering
Tamper Evident
Data Duplication
DEAF CON
Voting Machine Hacking
Recon
AI
Soldering Skills
DroneWarz
VX (Chip-Off)
Mobile Museum of Vintage Technology
Ethics
Laser Cutting
Cannabis
CAAD (Competition on Adversarial Attacks and Defenses)
Blue Team
Car Hacking
Packet Hacking
Industrial Control Systems
Skytalks
Monero/BCOS

Villages at Defcon are a wealth of knowledge. When visiting Defcon, most if not all, will say "you should visit the villages learn something new, skip the talks". This is all but true. The talks are all recorded and easily uploaded within a couple of months onto the Defcon site. The villages, CTF competition are where you want to be. I know I'll be sitting with my burner laptop, at the CTFs meeting new people and learning new things.

oscp practice list

As a practice to the OSCP certification (that'll come sometime either this year or next year) I've read this article posted on reddit. It's a list of vulnerable OS that are either similar to the OSCP lab and or final exam. I'll be going through this list and posting walkthroughs. I've already completed two of them on the list. I'll be trying to do these on a weekly basis. 

Sites & Sounds

Another year at Defcon in Las Vegas, and this time around I've come with experience from my first visit. Last year on my first visit to this convention it didn't last long as I only stayed a day in a half. For this year I've decided to get to Vegas early. Of course it's always best to get here early for Defcon if you wish to get the electronic badges. I'll be updating my photography page with images from Defcon.

Update

Hello,

Another week goes by and more projects that i'm dealing with are slowing my progress with the sandbox machine that I was supposed to document about here. But I will share what I did once I complete the other projects.

On another note I've signed up for the Cisco CCNA Cyber Ops Scholarship, you can read all about it here . I do recommend that you at least sign up even if you do not qualify, it doesn't hurt to try. 

I've also been investing time in a Raspberry pi that I've recently picked up. I will be making a IDS out of it to use at my network at home. I will be creating a write up once I've completed with that. I will be also be picking up a second Raspberry pi for my camera security system at home. 

That's it for this week I promise I'll post up the documentation on the Sandbox, and the IDS as soon as I get finished with them.