Watch me being completely normal about Cats the Musical whilst talking about threat modeling at @pancakescon.
Warding of Macavity through threat modeling
- Building a personal threat model to shore up against stalkers told via Cats the Musical.
https://youtu.be/OGdUw1Gp6yU
The @pancakescon 5 YouTube Video Playlist is live here & now - https://pancakescon.org/PancakesCon5Playlist
Great big thank you the @hacks4pancakes @deviantollam for the Keynote and all the speakers who took time to build presentations for Tech and Hobby topics.
#Community #Learning #PancakesCon5
So I participated on the @pancakescon CTF this year with a bunch of random people I met on the spot and… we ended up 2nd! Woah!!
For the good stuff: It was neat in general, I liked the Dr Seuss theming a lot, the infra setup was *really* decent (doesn't crash and burn on CTF beginning? Free Kali cloud instances to all teams?! Really sick!). Many of the easier challenges used fairly real-world concepts such as ICMP data exfiltration and Acropalypse abuse. I also liked that there were non-standard challenges like solving the Nim game by hand.
What swept me off my feet were the mainframe challenges they introduced in the middle of the CTF (edit: made by @mainframed767, kudos!) . Like… WOW! I feel like I just experienced the closest thing to "found an ancient alien computer in the middle of the desert, oh what it will contain". I have never touched a mainframe in my life, I had no idea what I was doing 99% of the time and I still managed to get 3 flags, including one nobody else got! It was very much frustrating but I had a blast with these challenges, now I really wanna pick up a mainframe emulator and play around with it.
In the end, I think being able to attract challenge creators who have the ideas, skill and know-how to bring such creative challenges makes for CTFs that people will find memorable and fun, even if they are not top-of-the-scene competitions. For that I gotta give massive kudos to Qualcomm and @hacks4pancakes. Also, kudos to the #pancakescon5 staff for being fairly active and responsive thorough the whole con.
For the stuff that could be improved: I felt some of the challenges were a bit guessy, and especially the web category overall was kinda broken in that sense; lots of 0-solves there. I think the CTF could have leaned more towards white-box challenges, I'd say black-box challenges tend to be a fairly frustrating, especially for beginners.
Thank you @pancakescon ! #pancakescon5 was a blast!
#PancakesCon5 also has some good life advice! @hacks4pancakes
Thrive or Survive : What a life in the Mosh Pit taught me about Cyber Security — by George Sandford
Shrimp Jesus sighting courtesy @thepacketrat at Pancakescon
For the people trying to reach me, no chances is #pancakescon #pancakescon5 time. :awesome:
With roasted pecans and Pappy's maple syrup, because YUM
#PancakesCon5
Two more sleeps untill @pancakescon
Commissioning an artist to create an illustration for my cover slide was the right thing to do. Artist: @ollie.v.oxenfree on Instagram
Who's excited for #pancakescon5 🙋
Go check out @pancakescon for the deets!
Thrilled that I made this year's @pancakescon speaker list!
The other speakers and talks are absolutely insanely epic, I can't wait!
Go forth and get your eyeballs ready for another amazing PANCAKESCON!
Huge love to @hacks4pancakes and the whole PancakesCon team, you do such amazing work & I appreciate you all so much 💙
#pancakescon5 #infosec #semiotics
