Infoz Who: Hackers like you. What: ToorCon 9 When: October 19th-21st, 2007 Where: San Diego Convention Center Why: What could possibly go wrong?

Intro

ToorCon, now in its 9th year running, is San Diego's hacker conference bringing together the top security experts to present their new tricks of the trade and have fun in the sunny and beautiful city of San Diego. This year ToorCon's Seminars & Conference will be taking place again at the Convention Center on October 19th-21st, 2007. We will also be holding our workshops at the Emerald Plaza Westin on October 18th, 2007.

Presentations Posted

We've finally gotten around to posting some of the presentations from the talks. Just surf over to the conference page and click on the [M] links next to the speaker names. If you are a speaker and we didn't manage to grab your slides at the conference or if you have additional materials, please shoot us an email with your materials so we can get them posted.

ToorCon 9 a Success!

After a weekend of pure pwnage and mayhem we're glad to say that ToorCon 9 was a success and there's tons of digital evidence around the intarwebs to prove it. Here's some articles and pics that poped up online that you should check out!

- Wired Blog
- Hack-A-Day Blog
- Feature story on Linux.com
- Linux.com video interview with h1kari
- SeattleWireless's Blog
- Dan Anderson's Blog
- TS/SCI Security Blog
- Dustin Trammel's Review
- From Information to Intelligence

- Toorcon 9 Flickr Images
- Strom Carlson's Pics
- Matt Westervelt's Pics
- OracleGD's Pics

Pre-Registration Closed!

Pre-registration is now officially closed. You still have a chance to register at the door for full price so if you decide to come out at the last minute we can definitely accommodate you!

Workshops & Seminars Moved!

We ended up deciding to move the workshops to the Emerald Plaza Westin and the Seminars to the Convention Center. We're sorry for the inconvenience and hope that the new choice in venue will work better. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email h1kari.

Finalized conference lineup announced!

We just posted the finalized conference lineup but we are still working on booking our keynote so we'll post an update once that's resolved. Also, we're planning on adding an additional talk to the Seminars which should be announced in the next couple of days. We also have ical and xcal versions of the lineup available now that are automatically updated when changes are made to the lineup.

Pre-registration Increased and All Workshops Announced!

Just wanted to let everyone know that pre-registration has increased and we have finally released all of the workshops for this year! We have 3 amazing workshops we're offering this year including one on hacking embedded wireless systems, learning the basics of penetration testing, and a brand new one on reversing silicon!

We're still working on finalizing the speaker lineup so check back in the next couple of days for the complete lineup. Since we just released a new workshop on hacking silicon, we've decided to keep the pricing for the Seminars and Workshops reduced for an extra couple of weeks, please check the registration page for more details.

Pre-registration Opens!

Hey, we've finally started pre-registration so start registering quick before prices go up!

First Round of Speaker Selection Announced!

We're currently posting talks as they're being accepted on the Conference lineup page. Check there for updates on new talks that are added. We will be posting a full finalized lineup when the CFP closes on September 9th.

Call For Papers!

ToorCon's Call for Papers has been released. Check out the CFP for details.

Videos

In the meantime, check out some of the videos from last year's ToorCon here:

- Cory Doctorow, The Art of Blogging
- Simple Nomad, State of the Enemy of the State
- Various Presenters, Everything and Anything Lightning Presentations
- Dan Kaminsky, Black Ops of TCP/IP 2006
- Adam Young, Experiments from Cryptovirology Labs
- Aaron Peterson, Wicrawl - A Next Gen WiFi Auditor
- Luis Miras, C++ Reversing - Bridging the Gap Phase 2
- Alan Bradley and Kevin Flynn, Tron - He Fights for the User
- Alex Stamos and Zane Lackey, Breaking Ajax Web Applications
- Andrew Wbeelsoi and Mischa Spiegelmock, Lovin the LOLs
- Jay Beale, Discovering Mac OS-X Weaknesses and Fixing them with Bastille
- Dan Moniz, Cheap Crack - Achieving the Impossible
- Various Panelists, Old School Hacking Nostalgia Panel Discussion
- Datagram, Locksmithing and Key Bumping
- Scott Moulton, Hacking Hard Drives for Data Recovery
- Lin0xx, Advanced Windows Firewall Subversion
- Spoonm, IDA Rub Reverse Engineering
- I)ruid, VOIP Attacks
- Richard Johnson, Windows Vista Exploitation Countermeasures
- Steve Rambam, Privacy is Dead, Get Over It
- Jared DeMott, The Evolving Art of Fuzzing
- Vlad Tsyrklevich, Polymorphic Shellcode at a Glance
- Tom St Denis, Elliptic Curve Algorithms
- Nicholas Brulez, Breaking Pocket PC Executable Protection
- asm, LOLPhone - Exploiting Trust in Social Phone Networks
- Justin Ferguson, Bridging the Gap - Analysis of Win32 Executables in Unix
- Lance James and Joshua Brashars, Tracksploits - Passive Tracker Hacking
- Christopher Abad, Hi-Tech Codes, and Lo-Tech LOLs
- Matt Fisher, Everything You Ever Needed to Know About SQL Injection

Pictures

Here's a bunch of pictures from ToorCon 2006. If you have any pictures that aren't linked to on here, please shoot a link to h1kari [at] toorcon.org.

- Matt Peterson's Pictures
- Matt Westervelt's Pictures
- Quinn Norton's Pictures
- Octalpus's Pictures
- Alex Stamos's Pictures
- ToorCon Flickr Tag