CactusCon 12 (2024)

CactusCon 12 took place Feb. 16, 2024 through Feb. 17, 2024 (6 months, 3 weeks 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