CactusCon 12 (2024)

CactusCon 12 took place Feb. 16, 2024 through Feb. 17, 2024 (9 months ago) at Mesa Convention Center in Mesa, Arizona, USA.

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

https://www.cactuscon.com/cc12-schedule

Presentations

Friday, Feb. 16, 2024

08:00 - Registration
09:00 - Opening Remarks
09:00 - Introduction to Hacking Active Directory
09:30 - Subdomain Takeover
09:30 - Unlocking the Potential of ChatGPT in Pentesting
09:30 - It's Phishing Season: An Overview of Phishing Kits
10:00 - Come WiFind Me: WiFi and other RF Survelliance
10:00 - Building Your CyberSecurity Career: For Newcomers, Career Changers, or Stale Jobs
10:00 - Breaking in to the Iron Fortress - How I hack IBM mainframes
10:00 - Snow Talks
10:30 - Aye matey! Bring home the bounty. Don’t just find bugs-- Find an SSRF.
11:00 - Reverse Engineering Go Malware: A BianLian Story
11:00 - Cracking the Code: How to Start Your Career in Cybersecurity
11:00 - Building a Backyard TI Platform that Works for You
11:30 - Betrayed by Your Browser: How Third-Party Tracking Systems Are Following You Online
13:00 - Who's Afraid of Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure?
13:30 - Workshop: Malicious Kubernetes
14:00 - Arizona Elections Security Prep for 2024
14:00 - 60 minutes: Hack this AWS account
14:00 - How to be an "only": Finding your voice when you are the only one in the room
14:00 - Catch Me If You Can: Hunting Cloud Exfiltration Using Anomaly Detection
15:00 - Cloud security for the network security engineer, or why it’s all just so wrong these days.
15:00 - Upgrade Your Job Search With AI
15:00 - Command, Control, and memes: Cordyceps + ant = zombie
15:00 - The Story of a Never Ending Scam: When Natalie Hamilton Reemerged with Vengeance and a Power Drill
16:00 - Novel Detection Technique of Process Injection using Network Anomalies
16:00 - Never Break the Chain: Attack Chaining for 0-Days
16:00 - How to not suck at an Infosec career – hint: it’s not all about your technical skills!
16:00 - Leaving Doors Unlocked With Cognito
17:00 - Happy Hour

Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024

09:00 - Registration
09:30 - Analysis for Incident Responders 2024
09:30 - Validating Identity in a World of Deepfakes
09:30 - Cyber Espionage and the Global Power Struggle: A Deep Dive
09:30 - Clearing the Fog: Detection and Defense against Cloud Persistence Techniques
10:00 - Why Introverts Should Get Better at Networking (and HOW!)
10:30 - IAES: Guarding the University of Arizona's Heartbeat – The Watchful Eye on Critical Infrastructure
10:30 - Exploring RMM Tools and Their Forensics
10:30 - Veilid, the future of privacy- aka- how to destroy capitalism with the Cult of the Dead Cow
11:00 - Going to the Darkside: Should you become an SE?
11:00 - DON’T PANIC!: An IR Guide to Communicating with Execs
11:30 - Lunch
12:00 - Bethematch.org donor drive
13:30 - Nmap Scripting: The Ultimate Weapon
13:30 - From Cyber Lemons to Lemonade: A Refreshing Take on Exposed Data
13:30 - Every Contact Leaves a Trace
13:30 - Worst of Cybersecurity Reporting 2023
14:00 - Unlocking RFID Security: A Deep Dive into Flipper Zero and the Vulnerabilities of Multiclass Readers
14:00 - Resume Reviews and Mock Interviews
14:30 - A cactus coup at the goldrush saloon: swindling machine learning caches via wagon train
14:30 - Opening the DarkGate: Exploring the Destructive Potential of AutoIT and Possible Mitigations
14:30 - SBOMs for Evil: Turning Un-Remediated Software Supply Chain Documentation into an Attack Path
14:30 - Getting to decent: An Offsec Story
15:30 - The Registry Hives you may be MSIX-ing
15:30 - The Best Free Resources to Get Started in Incident Response
15:30 - You Can Get There From Here: Career Pathing in Cyber
15:30 - Simple Ways to Make Webhook Security Better
16:30 - Closing Ceremonies

Presenters