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CarolinaCon-11 is coming - March 20th-22nd 2015


From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:05:35 +0000 (UTC)

Forwarded from: Vic Vandal <vvandal (at) well.com>

h4x0rs, InfoSec geeks, script kidz, posers, and friends,

CarolinaCon is back for its 11th year, which is also billed as "the last CarolinaCon as we know it". For about the price of your average movie admission with popcorn and a drink ($20), YOU are invited to join us for yet another intimate and informative weekend of hacking-related education.

This year's event will be held on the weekend of March 20th-22nd 2015 in Raleigh NC at the North Raleigh Hilton (Midtown).

The currently chosen lineup includes more presenters named Old Gregg than you'll find at any conference anywhere, along with other esteemed individuals, such as;

- Have you ever drunk Bailey's from a shoe? (aka Pen-Testing & Social Engineering Convergence) - Old Gregg (smrk3r)
- Cryptocurrency Laundering Theory for Fun and Retirement - Old Gregg (myddrn)
- How to design your "You got hacked" page - Old Gregg (digital shokunin)
- Electronics Engineering for Pen-Testers - Old Gregg (melvin2001)
- Phony Business - What Goes Around Comes Back Around - Unregistered & Snide
- Elevator Obscura: Industry Hacks & Answers to all Your Odd Questions About Those Magical Moving Rooms - Howard Payne 
& Deviant Ollam
- Rethinking the Origins of the Lock - Schuyler Towne
- RedneckSec - @th3mojo
- Cyber War Stories - Andrew Shumate
- One Step Closer to the Matrix: Machine Learning and Augmented Reality in Networking - Rob Weiss & John Eberhardt
- I live in a van and so can you - Mark Rickert, aka Matt Foley
- Drilling Deeper with Veil’s PowerTools - Justin Warner (@sixdub) & Will Schroeder (@harmj0y)
- Hacker's Practice Ground - Lokesh Pidawekar
- Social engineering is bullsh*t, call it what it is - surpherdave
- Anatomy of Web Client Attacks - Jason Gillam
- Art of Post-infection Response and Mitigation - chill
- SPAM, Phish and Other Things Good to Eat - Joshua Schroeder / JoshInGeneral
.....and potentially 1-2 other l33t talks that we might be able to squeeze in!

Side events currently on tap include;
- Capture The Flag
- Mobile Museum of Vintage Technology
- Lockpicking Village
- Hacker Trivia
- Android Netrunner
- Pulp Fiction Canonical Drinking Game
- "Unofficial" Shootout (details at http://hackers.withguns.com/)

For those traveling to the event or who simply want to stay at the Hilton venue throughout, hotel rooms at the special CarolinaCon group rate can be reserved via this link. http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/R/RDUNHHF-CCC-20150319/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG

ALERT: The special group rate is only available until February 20th, so book now if interested.

For other exciting details as they develop stay tuned to: http://www.carolinacon.org

If you have any important questions about the event that are NOT answered in website content you can send an email to; info<at>carolinacon.org

Peace,
Vic

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