Wow..

It is 3:34 my time, and I have had quite a day. Yes, I am writing this after.. Um lets just say A HUNDRED BEERS. So if this doesnt make any sense.. Well — You know why. Let me tell you something, next year you need to go to Blackhat. The staff at Blackhat have done a great job setting everything up. The briefings were interesting and at the end of the day they had an open bar. Yes that was sweet! Ok, back to what I did today, Here are the briefings that I went to today:

  1. The Social Engineering Engagement Methodology – Joseph Klein
  2. Attacking Web Services: The Next Generation of Vulnerable Enterprise Apps- Alex Stamos & Scott Stender
  3. Owning Anti-Virus: Weaknesses in a Critical Security Component- Alex Wheeler & Neel Mehta
  4. Can You Really Trust Hardware? Exploring Security Problems in Hardware Devices- Joe Grand
  5. Beyond EIP- spoonm & skape

You can read all about these briefings here, but let me give tell you.. These presenters were on their game. I was totally impressed by each presenter… But spoonm & skape blew me away. wow. These college students (who btw wrote metasploit) showed me some things with metasploint that I couldnt believe. Lets just say some very cool things are coming down the pipe. While day one was winding down, they had a open bar and a few of us were chatting.. That is when one of the guys we were with noticed a few “celebs”.. Anyway after a few words, I now have signed books AND pictures with Kevin Mitnick and Jonny Long Grand (of google hacking fame)

Ok.. Well that is my update for today. I need to go to bed if I plan to be alive tomorrow. Damn, 7:00 is going to come soon.