Someone beat us to the shmooball launcher.  It’s probably for the best since we were going to order parts from this company. We heard ambulances only take 180 seconds to get to the hotel.

The presentations were very hit or miss this year, with unfortunately a bit more of the latter.  I felt a lot of presentations would have fit a shorter turbo style time slot better than the hour long time slots.  For example, the ‘baffle’ application for wireless AP finger printing looks like a very cool first generation tool. Easy to use, hack around with, well researched, and makes pretty graphs. Score. Unfortunately they dragged out the presentation with the whole history of tcp finger printing and made us wonder what the students were IM’ing about as they sat on the stage trying not to look too embarrassed or bored.

Mad props go out to Brad Antoniewicz and Joshua Wright. Not only for releasing a cool tool for wireless PEAP/TLS client credential pwnage (FreeRADIUS – Wireless Pwnage Edition), but for fun presentation skillz and shmooball dodging.  Find the video for this one. It was probably my favorite talk of the con (not sure if the camera man caught the start of the talk though).

The guys at Vigilar also rocked with a new and improved version of VoIP Hopper; complete with practical usage scenarios and some good demos with a standard VoIP phone.  They showed how to get on to the corporate network bypassing vlans setup for the VoIP traffic. I could think of a number of locations I’ve been at where it would be handy to have this tool with me.

Our very own Jaime and Aaron got a lot of people thinking with their forced internet condom. They’re moving the web hosting provider, but there’s some good data about what ports ISPs are blocking over at portscan.us (and you can help add to the project as well).

I unfortunately missed h1kari’s (David Hulton) GSM talk due to train delays, but the word at the hotel bar was that it was one of the most techincal and interesting talks of the con.  His GSM rainbow tables may make things very interesting when the FPGAs complete in three months (anyone get a link to where that will be?).  Speaking of FPGAs, I’m proposing the FDA needs to start looking into these things since they’re basically giving every geek I know an erection that is lasting way longer than 4 hours.

And for more geek porn,  let me suggest the Solid State Drives Data Recovery Comparison to Hard Drives presentation.  Scott Moulton makes powerpoint look a commadore 64 next to his smoothly timed 3D graphics.  His guy also rocks for having them online for everyone to get jealous of… oh and teach us that deleting or wiping flash based drives is completely useless because of the wear-levelling process done by the controllers on these things. (and yes, I did sit there thinking of all the times I’ve futilely done PGP wipes of data on my flash drives). The good news though is that the recovery of that data sounds pretty damn hard at this time.  Also in good news, we can now write off a few power tools from home depot as business expenses since you’ll want a hammer now to “wipe” those drives.

A number of us caught the phishing talk by Syn Phishus. I think we’ll have a full follow-up post on that (but just to clear one rumor we heard, no, he does not work for or have anything to do with phishme.com). He obviously agrees with us that mock phishing exercises need to be done… but I’d say our approachs to this differ greatly.

-b3nn