The Return from Vegas...

So I have returned from Black Hat 2010, I had a great time and I learned quite a bit this time. I went to just about every talk related to exploit development or reverse engineering. My favorite talks were “ExploitSpotting”, “Memory Corruption Attacks: The (almost) Complete History”, “There's a party at Ring0 (and you're invited)”, and “Understanding the Low-Fragmentation Heap: From Allocation to Exploitation”. These were just the ones I thought were the best, but all of the other presentations I went to were great. At the moment I do not have links to the slides if I can find them I will add links.

After Black Hat ends Defcon begins which always seems to disappoint me conference wise. It is always over crowded, the hotel is horrible and most people don’t even get badges! The briefings are always less professional and less technical. I guess I am just expecting Black Hat quality work for one-tenth the price. The redeeming factor about Defcon is the social aspect. I was able to meet up with lots of old friends for some good times.

Black Hat / Defcon Parties are always great. I went to the Rapid7, Attack Research, and Security Twits parties. No, I didn’t have an invite for the Ninja Party. I don’t seem to have those kinds of connections. All of my photos from the trip can be about at My flickr site.

At the moment I am trying to finish up the NessusDB gem and that will be pushed a long with a blog entry about it as soon as I get everything finished.