Just another exciting time of the year. July hits and its time for Bsides Brisbane.
This year I attended with a mate from Crowdstrike. Talk about the drama omg gezz trying to organise was like herding cats. There was suppose to be serveral of us but at lass it was not to be. Running around finding ticket organising accom and flights, well I drove.
Starting on the friday I left from home on the midnorthcoast and headed north short time later …(4.5hrs) Arrived is Brisbane. Dropped by a distributor pickup some more PDU’s for the accumulating racks I have. (I swear there propergating…. Honest!) Then head over to accomadation on Queen st and head to the pub for a well desired beer !!! while i awaited my side kick for the event.
As per usual once he arrived we head out for our Favourite Dish face melting hot wings at winghaus. Defferently somewhat different to ones we get in sydney but tasty none the less. We then had another mate rock up from crowdstrike and we proceeded to Felons Brewing Co for a few pints. after that head back to hotel for some much needed rest before the Con.
Day of the Con Saturday 15th July
We head down to QUT where the Con was being held. Was a bit of a hike but we did take the long path around head down to the river and following it around to QUT, First stop COFFEEEEEE we found a coffee cart in a shipping container on the way in. Where we ran into one of the boys from CrikeyCon CTF organisers. We grab some brew and zig zag our way down to Z block. As we got closer and closer we started to be surrounded by the black hoodies lol such a cliche but were not any better we were both wearing black hoodies as well lol.
Checkin
So now its my turn to head to registation and checkin omg I usual am propared for this but today for what ever reason it slipped my mind. I kept letting poeple pass as I hunt through emails for the QR code. Arh ha found it just as i was being asked by the person behind the counter for my name. I grab my VIP pack( special VIP Tshirt and head over to pick up the general Tshirt.
We then head to grab more coffee before we head in. We order “that going to be 40min wait” the Lass behind the counter WTF to that omg really gezz I look over the count to see 30 or so orders. Seems someone forgot to staff correctly for 500 attendees with a coffee account.
Let it all begin
Welcome by the MC Bruce, noice (which I hung out with last year at Crikeycon). And straight in to first talk.
Bytes and Statellites: Geopolictical Contest in the age of cyber
BY Katherine Mansted
WOW what a talk, such an insightful talk about threat intelligence she really got at this presentation thing keeped me engauged the whole talk.
How AI will fundamentally chnge our approach to appsec
By Cole Cornford
Well missed the first half of this due to grabing coffee we ordered gezz that sucks the last half of this that I caught was amazing. Have to follow this up and reach out see if i can get the slides.
BREAK
Detecting Malicious Powershell scripts: Challenges and Solutions
By Shota Shinogi
Missed this as food got the better of me…
Hacking the Netcomm NF20MESH Router
BY Brendan Scarvel
I missed this one as well …. food. But did get a hold of the slides Thankx Brendan for sharing them. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s6ktbrueHrE8yaElBTLQZpBvj4vEIm6M/view Hey hey Buffer overflow.
Lunch Break more noom’s
In the White Room with Black Curtains, We Play Cards Against Humanity
By Gyle Delacruz
I am having a mental break mind is lost for this bit check back later once the recovery process has been completed.
OT / ICS – Comman Mistakes and rapid ROI
By Gavin Dilworth
Missed this …. CTF
Afternoon Break
How to start taking your TTX’s off the table
By Alex Desmond
Missed this… CTF
Lazy Writing: The Information Security Nightmare that is AI Generated Text
By Kristine Sihto
Well think title speaks for its self!
Hacking SS7 To save lives
By Ryan Williams
Wow first time speaker and all i have to say he did amazing, so worth it. Hope more comes from this.
Evening
Pub to pub we go catching up with old friends and making new ones, lets not forget about Steak hmmm food.
oh almost forgot the Badge
Badge this year some snazzy LED glasses.
Stickers
Shout Out to Professionals Australia for the mad talk about wages and work rights. Shout out to Lee for some more than crazy designs love them all! They all will find homes on all the devices!
Concusion
After a long drive home after relising I had lost my sunnies at con… and having to buy a pair of servo ones so I could drive. Shout out to Bruce for finding them and shipping them back to me. I got to say was worth my time in attending this amazing Cyber Security Event.
Thankx to all the speakers and mad bunch of organisers I had a blast. Biggest Shout to Nate for hanging out with me and calming my anxiety, your the bestest. let us forget about the cockroaches….