CactusCon 11 (2023)

CactusCon 11 took place Jan. 27, 2023 through Jan. 28, 2023 (1 year, 7 months ago) at Mesa Convention Center in Mesa, Arizona, USA.

The general admission for the conference was free^[1].

Presentations

Friday, Jan. 27, 2023

16:00 - Opening Remarks
16:30 - The Power of Community and how it Saved My Job
16:30 - Free Food Anyone? Wi-Fi Hacking and POS Bypassing
16:30 - Exploiting IoT devices through Physical Embedded Security
16:30 - How to play Backdoors & Breaches, Incident Response Card Game
17:00 - Egress Filtering in AWS; And other Sisyphean tasks
17:00 - Best Practices and Lessons Learned from Starting Up Multiple OSINT Teams
17:00 - Cybersecurity Careers at Axon
17:30 - It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's...A Script?: Abusing Headers to Create Python/Bitmap Polyglots
18:00 - A Peek Inside an Adversary’s Toolkit
18:00 - Cybersecurity Careers at Kudelski Security
18:00 - Hunting the Bian Lian Ransomware Gang
18:00 - From Sticks and Stones to a Functional Forensics Lab
19:00 - Lunch, sponsored by Tailscale!
19:00 - Shifting Competency Left: Methods to Present Yourself as "Ready for Work" in Cybersecurity
19:55 - Who's Watching Who - Hacking IP Cameras
20:00 - Friday Keynote: Paulo Shakarian, “The New Challenges of Artificial Intelligence”
21:00 - Snow Talks
21:00 - Who Wants To Be A CISO?
21:00 - Unmanaged Systems: Your Achilles Heel
21:00 - Shodan OSINT Automation to Mass Exploitation of Vulnerabilities
21:00 - Will AI Take My InfoSec Job? Exploring interesting AI use cases
22:00 - Txt Me Bro: a text message phishing honeypot
22:00 - Windows Powershell for WMI - Use and Forensics
22:00 - Single Source of Truth: Documenting Incident Response
22:00 - Careers in Risk: There's More to Cyber than Hacking
22:30 - Can Ducks Teach Us how to Share: What hunting Qakbot and other threats teach us about CTI
23:00 - Bridging the gap in the static and dynamic analysis of binaries through decompiler tomfoolery!
23:00 - How Expired Domains Lead to Facebook ATO
23:30 - Happy Hour, featuring Backdoors and Breaches Card Game, sponsored by Presidio!

Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023

15:00 - Registration
16:00 - IPFS, DApps, & Blockchains: How Web3 Technologies Are Being Abused In Malware and Phishing Campaigns
16:00 - Hacking Hired - Identify the Vectors and Find Your Way In
16:00 - Hack your smart home first - Finding the mobile APIs
16:00 - BloodHound Unleashed
16:00 - All your codebase are belong to us
17:00 - Building a Canarytoken to Monitor Windows Process Execution
17:00 - Machine Learning for Security Analysts
17:00 - PSA: Doorbell Cameras Have Mics, Too!
17:00 - Business Email Compromise - Problems In the Mirror Are Larger than they Appear
17:00 - Make LinkedIn Work for You
17:30 - Surveillance in your pocket
18:00 - I Came in Like a Wrecking Ball
18:00 - From the Army to Google: Getting Into Cybersecurity
18:00 - Is Dead Memory Analysis Dead? Finding Infected Systems through Live Memory Analysis
18:00 - Worst of Cybersecurity Reporting 2022
19:00 - Lunch
20:00 - Saturday Keynote
20:35 - Hacking for Beginners
21:00 - Career Workshopping & Resume Reviews
21:00 - How to Job Hunt Like a Hacker!
21:00 - Securing Your Home Network/Homelab... Yes, it's still relevant in the 2020s!
21:00 - Security Operations with Velociraptor
21:00 - Shifting Competency Left: Methods to Present Yourself as "Ready for Work"
22:00 - PBR and Kittens
22:00 - State of (Absolute) AppSec
22:00 - Sniper Incident Response
23:00 - Welcome to the Jungle: Pentesting AWS
23:00 - Getting Into The Reeds With Sensor Manipulation
23:00 - Paging All Hackers: Virtual Memory Attacks
23:55 - Closing Remarks

Presenters