BlackHat

I survived yet another BlackHat conference in Vegas. I thought the con was really good this year -- some improvements made the entire experience much better.

Instead of vendors lining (and cloggin) the hallways, all the booths were in a ballroom. Lots more room to walk around and talk to people, and so much easier to move from one talk to the next. Great move! The also moved lunch inside (previous years it was downstairs out through the pool and in a tent). Much better to just use another room in the conference area.

I saw a lot of really cool talks -- building a darknet (private network) using a browser, using some memory analysis tools to find what commands were performed with a common exploit tools, and some new things to make reverse engineering easier.

It was great to see the people I used to work with, and those people who I only get to see at conferences. No DefCon for me this year (baby Ezri trumps a conference!) but the 2 days of BlackHat wore me out enough that it was probably a good year to cut short my Vegas trip.

Now on to a week of vacation, then back to reality!