Static in the Ether

Michael Boman has made available the slidepack for Blackhat 2008. There are many blackhats as such but THE Blackhat is Blackhat USA held in Vegas in early in August each year. While the official audio and video will be another couple of months off, the slides should keep people interested. BH Europe also has material already available on the archive

Blackat Media’s decision to open up their archives is to be commended.  If I recall correctly, this content has also been available on iTunes fro a while under podcasts.

With the 16^th incarnation of Defcon having come and gone last week, a number of people have put together a nice list of the various tools released. The ZDnet’s Rob Fuller has done all the hard work of tracking down the various tools and their websites in his article -  entitled “ DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released
“seems to be the most definitive.  Another (updated) list is on Rob’s personal site in which he includes some other items like Packet-O-Matic, PE-Scambler andVMware Pen-Testing Framework, alng with a link to the ISO.

Of all the tools release its DAVIX, that makes me happiest, other than it being a relaly slick Compilation of VizSec tools, it also features InetVis, which is a part of the postgraduate research by one of my students (Jean-Pierre van Riel), which I previously posted about.

iKat is the other tool that tickles my fancy.

There are some interesting setf odf Defcon Photos floating around such as these by sits, who has also made available a zip of the of the Defcon 16 CD contents.An 732MB ISO  version is also available that at least has checksums.

I see some fun times ahead!

The 24th IFIP International Information Security Conference, has just released its call for papers for the 2009 edidtion to be held in Cyprus May 18-20 next year. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published by  Springer. Accepted papers must follow Springer’s guidelines for the IFIP Series, available at  www.springer.com/series/6102

Important dates
Submission of papers: October 20, 2008
Notification to authors:  December 20, 2008
Camera-ready copies:  January 15, 2009