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BSides San Antonio 2018 (BSidesSATX)

2018 BSides San Antonio Recap

 

When BSidesSATX started in 2013, there was no way to know what it would grow into or if it even would continue. 2018 marks the third year that we have been at St. Mary’s University, the sixth year of the con, and our best year yet. Best because, with all told, over 400 people were in attendance. It’s the first year that we added a Hardware Hacking Village. The first for having an ice cream social, our first at offering a mentorship program for new speakers, and the first time for having a Blue Team Village. In response to the positive feedback received, we plan to go even further in 2019 with the addition of some form of wireless village and potentially a podcasting village for those who are looking to learn more about media production.

 

 The Hardware Hacking Village has extra meaning because we have always had the benefit of Longhorn Lockpicking Club providing their assistance, but we never knew if there would be enough interest in people learning how to solder and tinker with projects at our small event. When discussing this late in 2017, the decision was made to order only a small number of kits that would be easy for people to work with, beginner grade only. Only 20 kits were initially ordered, however the village coordinator thought better of it and ordered an additional 30, bringing the total to 50. Every single kit sold on the day of the con. Three tables were initially set aside, however seven tables ended up being needed and were very crowded, all day long. The original idea was to have the hardware hacking village take up one corner of the room, it needed almost half of it, the response was so overwhelming. 

 

This is no small feat. The original badge design which had a simple PCB with our logo silkscreened on it, hanging from a lanyard. Thanks to SANS, we had very nice lanyards with clips. The clever coordinator and volunteers who ran the hardware hacking village devised a way to add blinky lights to the badge and make it look like something we had planned all along. The credit goes to them for coming up with the idea, working out how to mount things to the badge, and making it one of the most desirable items from our 2018 San Antonio BSides conference.

 

This has nothing to say about the very well attended tracks, of which we had four. From deeply technical, to how to get started in your career, we had a wide range of topics covering many interests. Every single track was full to overflowing most of the day. If we had larger rooms, we would have had to use them. The attendance of the conference alone is remarkable in that we had visitors ranging from local to international in attendance. At least one of which was a fellow event coordinator having come all the way from Chicago. This community never ceases to amaze with their willingness to show their support, step outside of their comfort zones, present, volunteer, or help to coordinate. Our career track is coordinated and curated by the same person who takes care of BSides Las Vegas', Recruit DC's, and so many other recruiting events. It goes without saying that we owe Kathleen Smith more than can be expressed in words. 

 

Thanks to SANS we also had bags to give every single attendee. Through a show of support and willingness, every single bag was stuffed with materials, packed, stacked, organized, and loaded up days ahead, so that everything would be ready for the big day. Throughout the day, people would call me aside to offer a word of encouragement or positive feedback about the event itself, or an opportunity that came out of their willingness to participate in some way. One person stopped me to express their appreciation for the chance to mentor first time presenters at a conference.  

 

All in all, this was a phenomenal day that will be difficult to top. Yet the community continues to ask us to grow and encourages us at every turn. We’ve already picked out a date, June 8, 2019, for the next event and will be trying out a new layout to help provide more foot traffic to our on-site sponsors as well as make our attendees and participants feel more connected. The entire BSides San Antonio team is excited about the future. Things are only looking up, can only get better, and we cannot wait to see what tomorrow brings.

 

A very special thank you from,

Steven and the BSidesSATX crew.

 

 

 

 

Event details

Contents

    CTFs

    Workshops

    Schedule

    Planners

    Location & Maps

    Sponsors

 

 

MAPS ADDED BELOW!

 

Be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom to see our sponsors.  Be sure to Thank them, please!

 

 

When: June 16 2018

Where: St. Mary's University

Cost: $20

Registration: via eventbrite

Parking pass

 

See our SCHEDULE below!

 

Also check out our local event website:

 

 

http://www.BSidesSATX.com

 

CTFs

 

 

BSidesSATX CTF located in Richter 106

BSides SATX CTF is a traditional jeopardy style game that will have an emphasis on PWN'ing challenges. This challenge will run from 9am on June 16th, 2018 to 9am on June 17th. We are hosting it in the cloud and welcome players from around the world to play. Players of all skill levels will have enough challenges to enjoy the day long competition.

We are featuring a beginning PWN category in which new players can cut their teeth.  There will also be a non-PWN'ing challenges for individuals wanting to try other categories such as Misc, Web, and Reversing. Challenges are written by a team of people with past and current DEFCON CTF experience.

Our team is built with members from two great companies, including Kudu Dynamics, with local San Antonio presences. We invite you to get out your PWN'ing tools out and enjoy the BSidesSATX CTF!

 

OpenSOC located in Richter 103
OpenSOC is a blue team defense simulation that is as close to "the real thing" as it gets. This isn’t just another CTF. We’ve built this platform to train real-world responders to handle real-world situations. Our environment is a highly portable, fully functional replication of an enterprise environment, complete with all the trimmings - Active Directory, Exchange, distributed networks, various sensors, log aggregation, end-user simulation, and more.
For more details, click here.

 

* WiFi will be available at BSidesSATX 
Bring your prepared laptop or device with your own toolset

 

Workshops

 

 The following are all located in and around the University Center Conference Room A
Hardware hacking village

The BSides SATX Hardware Hacking Village is a place you can come to learn about repairing your hardware, learning basic soldiering / de-soldiering skills. Some kits will be available for your purchase to explore these skills.

We look forward to your participation with this village. We have known limits that we are constrained by, but strive to deliver the most inside those limits. Our volunteers, and our fellow conference attendees are what makes it all happen. Come share what there is, and bring something to hack on. And leave with something new and different.

Chillout space
We have a chillout space in UC Conference Room A. Seating will be available all day, and you can also check out our hardware hacking village, community outreach tables and sponsors while you're there.

Community Outreach
We have community outreach tables on the upper level of the UC, around UC Conference Room A, featuring guests from the San Antonio Hackers Association, CyberDEF Dojo, San Antonio Youth Code Jam, San Antonio Radio Club, UTSA Computer Security Association, Alamo-ISSA, Texas Cyber Summit and InfraGard.

Sponsors
Sponsors are located in the UC Conference Room A, along side the chillout space. Please stop by and thank them for helping to make BSides SATX 2018 happen!

 

 

​Resume workshop in UC Conference Room B
Come by University Center Conference Room B to have the great folks from CyberSecJobs.Com and ClearedJobs.Net review your resume and assist with resume building. If you feel like you might like some one on one assistance with your resume, this is the place to be.

 

Cryptography village located in Garni 109

Hosted by Carl Mehner

Crypto village will be made up of a multi-part puzzle and time to work on solving it. The host introduce the puzzle to participants once in the morning and once more in the afternoon. The host will be available for one-on-one  walk-throughs or Q & A, except when he has to do his presentation. Carl will do a full walk though before the day is done.

 

 

Lockpicking Village located in Richter 111

The Longhorn Lockpicking Club was chartered in 2006 as a student organization at the University of Texas, Austin. Over the years is has become one of the most active chapters of its parent organization, Locksport International, and continues to meet regularly near campus.

The term 'locksport' was coined for the growing sport and hobby of lockpicking, and as a locksport club our goal is to provide a safe and responsible atmosphere for hobbyist lockpickers to share knowledge and experience while practicing their hobby.

All skill levels are welcome, especially newcomers to the hobby. Our challenges are a casual mix of everything from basic introductory lockpicking to advanced topics, so there's something for everyone.

Invite your friends by posting this on Twitter: "#BSidesSATX June 16 2018"

 

Schedule: 

/PRESENTATIONS/

track_one/in_the_beginning/moody_102/
09:00-09:30 - RoCET: The Remote Code Execution Tool for the Web - andr01d
09:30-10:00 - Dropbots: Command & Control using Cloud Storage - Mitchell Moser
10:00-11:00 - Internet 101: How Alice Talks to Bob - Milkman
11:00-12:00 - IDS Configuration for Beginners - Nick Leghorn
13:00-14:00 - Fiddling with Flash Drive Forensics - Alexander Klepal
14:00-15:00 - Containers: No, Not Your Mama's Tupperware - Ell Marquez
15:00-16:00 - Everything Old is New Again - Cindy Jones
16:00-17:00 - Adventures in Open Source Security Software - Jordan Wright

track_two/in_the_clouds/garni_107/
09:00-10:00 - 10 Steps to a Sound Cyber Security Program - Heath C Renfrow
10:00-11:00 - Does Patch Tuesday Really Matter Anymore? AKA: "Screw Patch Tuesday!" - Duncan McAlynn
11:00-12:00 - Exposed: Getting Control of Your Vendors Before They Expose You - Dan Browder
13:00-14:00 - Tactics, Techniques and Procedures: Building and Running a Blue Team from Scratch. - Abhishek Tripathi
14:00:15:00 - Credential Stealing Emails - What you need to know  - Michael Gough
15:00-16:00 - The SIEMpsons - James "Iv0ryW0lf" Boyd
16:00-17:00 - Zero to Hero: A Red Team's Journey - Robert Neel, David Thompson

track_three/in_the_thick_of_it/uc_conference_room_d/
09:00-10:00 - 10 Things Every Job Seeker Should Know

- Kathleen Smith
10:00-11:00 - Community Based Career Development

- Kathleen Smith and Cindy Jones
11:00-12:00 - Are you pwning or being pwned?
- Irma Symonds, Bill Branstetter, KJ Howell
Kathleen Smith, Moderating
13:00-14:00 - Strengthen Your SecOps Team by Leveraging Neurodiversity - Megan Roddie
14:00-15:00 - Get an Internship! - Paul Guido, Sonny Montiel,
Michael Davis, Adrian Clayton, Benjamin Richard, Emily Ehling


track_four/in_the_weeds/moody_101/
09:00-10:00 - Attacking Authentication in Web Applications

- Jake Miller
10:00-11:00 - Another name for Intel: Honeypots - Kat Fitzgerald
11:00-12:00 - GSuite Digital Forensics and Incident Response - Megan Roddie
13:00-14:00 - Achieving Advanced Security Use Cases by Integrating Key Security Solutions with a Vulnerability Management System - Gunner Clary, Danny Santander

14:00-15:00 - Cryptojacking Servers: The Intersection of poor patch management and ICO's - Chuck McAuley

15:00-16:00 - Securing the Future of TLS: What's new in TLS 1.3 - Carl Mehner

16:00-17:00 - PowerShell exploitation, PowerSploit, Bloodhound, PowerShellMafia, Obfuscation, PowerShell Empire, the Empire has fallen, you CAN detect PowerShell exploitation - Michael Gough


/VILLAGES/

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    Lockpicking Village

uc_conference_a/

    Hardware Hacking Village

    Chillout space

    Sponsorland

    Community outreach

uc_conference_b/

    Resume workshop 

   

CTF/
    richter_106/

        BSides SATX CTF  

    richter 103/

        OpenSOC

 

/WORKSHOPS/

richter_102/

    CyberDEF Dojo Malware Workshop

     

 

 

Planners

 

  • @SciaticNerd
  • Pinwheel
  • Pinky 
  • Adam McKinski
  • Pete Babcock
  • Will Woodson
  • c00p3r
  • Fr3d
  • Kathleen Smith
  • Nicholas Josue

 

 

 

Location: 
​St. Mary's University

A huge thank you goes out to the very supportive people at St.
Mary's University and the School of Science, Engineering, and Technology, for allowing us to host BSidesSATX on their campus.

 Click here for directions to parking in lot D

Please only park in Lot D, we are not responsible for any fines or repercussions in the event that you park elsewhere.
Tracks 1 and 4 are in the Moody Life Sciences building
Track 2 is in the Garni Science Hall
Track 3 is in the University Center

See maps below for parking and event locations

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Address of venue

St. Mary's University
One Camino Santa Maria
San Antonio, Texas 78228
210-436-3126
www.stmarytx.edu
interactive campus map: www.stmarytx.edu/map
PARK IN LOT D (pass coming soon) 
Richter Math, Science, and Engineering building.

 

GPS TO LOT D & WALK TO REGISTRATION IN RICHTER MATH-ENGINEERING


 

 


TO EVENTS, FOOD, and After Party

 

 

 

 

SPONSORS

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Thank you to our sponsors!

 

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