CactusCon 11 (2023)

CactusCon 11 took place Jan. 27, 2023 through Jan. 28, 2023 (1 year, 10 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