Black Hat Day 4

Today started slow, but things picked up around 10 when I got a call that a bud had a line on a few extra invites to the Cisco party and wanted to know if I wanted to go,. responded with a resounding YES, so hopefully he was able to get the names in, in time. The class I've been taking for the most has been pretty cool, it was the Advance Malware Deobfuscation class, my one biggest complaint with this class is a lack of good step by steps for the student exercises, so we can go back later and re-work through the exercises if we want. I don't know about any of you but after taking two heavily compressed and very technical IT courses, followed by 5 days of in-depth technical briefings, and various Vendor parties, I'm going to need a few days to decompress and the ability to re-run through the course materials when I'm more well rested. I'm probably not alone in this so.....

To say lunch sucked would be giving it a compliment, it was that bad. Of course this just means I'm going to be "forced" to grab something quick from the Caesars snack area before the Qualys get together, then again that might be what Caesars had in mind in the first place.

Last break of the day found us attendees rushing to grab our delegate bags. This year they had multiple colors not just the typical Red/Black bag (three to be exact: Red/Black, Orange/Black, and Blue/Black are the three bag color combos that I can see.). I'm not sure what if any difference there will be between the bags but I did notice a larger number of Red/Black bags than the other two. While standing in line I over hear one of the people near the front ask for a specific color, the guy handing them out said they couldn't do that and they we had to take what we got. Well as I reached the front I notice a nice Blue/Black bag after the typical Red/Black I was a bout to receive... thinking quick I turn to the guy behind me and say go ahead man. He buys it, steps right up and gets the Red/Black bag. I then smile as I step up for the nice Blue/Black bag. The guy handing them out just smiles back and says: thats the sweetest hack I've seen today, that's getting it done! So now I have a nice Blue/Black bag. As I look through the bag I notice not only have the goodies improved over years past the number has have increased a little (guess they found out they save lots of weight and money by not printing out the big red books).
Besides the usual program/schedule, conf DVD there is a rather nice, hard cover flip up book journal (kind of like a steno pad but hard bound and much better looking, an especially welcomed for this southpaw), a highlighter that also includes a two color ball point pen, and a nice new PayPal/ebay Security Key fob. Again not sure how this differs from the other colored bags, but I'll do some schmoozing and find out.

Well class is over so it a quick call to the other half, a snack and then the Qualys!

Ish