CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSING! Just wanted to let you know that the ToorCon 8 CFP will be closing at the end of Friday, August 18th (tomorrow). If you're interested in submitting, please make sure you get your submissions in before midnight tomorrow. For more info, check out the CFP at: http://www.toorcon.org/2006/cfp.html SWEET ASCII/ANSI ART CFP SUBMISSIONS! To check out some of the really sweet submissions we've received (in all of their ascii/ansi art glory), check out some of the following links: aempirei http://toorcon.org/2006/cfp/aempirei.html vlad902 http://toorcon.org/2006/cfp/vlad902.c.txt spoonm http://toorcon.org/2006/cfp/spoonm.html Tom St Denis (requires Firefox) http://toorcon.org/2006/cfp/tomstdenis.html asm http://toorcon.org/2006/cfp/asm/ Gabriel Lawrence & Patrick Nehls http://toorcon.org/2006/cfp/glawrence.html Tom Cross http://toorcon.org/2006/cfp/tcross.txt GENERAL CONFERENCE Currently, the general conference is $70 to pre-register, which will increase to $80 on September 1st. We haven't posted any talks yet, but should have the finalized schedule up by Monday, August 21st. DEEP KNOWLEDGE SEMINARS This year we will once again be having the Deep Knowledge Seminars on Friday, September 29th, right before the general conference. We are currently still working on the lineup, which will consist of 5 90 minute sessions, but are offering this as a more corporate oriented session and limiting the attendance to 20 people. The current pre-registration price is $500, but is reduced to $300 if you register in conjunction with a Workshop. The prices will be increasing to $800 on September 1st, and will be $1,000 at the door, so pre-register soon! WORKSHOPS We are also proud to announce that we are having 2 hands-on workshops this year: ~ Hardware Hacking Workshop ~ Instructor: bunnie Dates: Monday, October 2nd, 2006 Price: $900 Availability: 9 seats remaining Includes: Secret-bunnie-hardware, Soldering toolkit, & Cables This one-day workshop will introduce you to the basics of embedded processor hacking. In this unique workshop, you will get to hack a commercial embedded system for a product to be launched in Late August. The workshop will be held by the embedded electronics' designer. As a result, material will be presented from two perspectives when relevant: from that of a designer, and from that of a hacker. The workshop will begin with an overview of the hardware, and the design process that went into the hardware. Then, we will delve into the backdoors built into the product that can be used to commandeer the hardware for your purposes. You will learn several methods for attacking the embedded OS. Finally, you will build and add a small sensor module to the hardware. The workshop will conclude with the briefest introduction to writing drivers for this sensor module in Linux. We assume that the workshop attendee has minimal to no familiarity with hardware, but is fluent in C and assembly, and has a solid understanding of Linux OS fundamentals. ~ Building/Hacking Open Source Embedded Wireless Mesh Routers ~ Instructor: Ken Caruso & Matt Westervelt Dates: Monday, October 2nd, 2006 Price: $900 Availability: 8 seats remaining Includes: Soekris AP, Wireless Card, Case, & Antenna This class will take a very effective approach to teach you the basics of embedded hacking and wireless mesh. First we give you your own embedded wireless box to work on (which you take home at the end of the class). Second we teach you how to bootstrap it with an operating system while keeping it within the 64megabyte space limitation on the device. Third we teach you how to take this platform and make it part of a wireless mesh network using three different Open Source mesh implementations. Fourth we cover security issues with these protocols, how to mitigate and how to take advantage of them. SPONSORS We are finalizing our list of vendors and sponsors, so if you are interested in sponsoring, please contact us soon! We have our sponsorship rates posted up at http://www.toorcon.org/2006/sponsors.html and don't hesitate to reply to this email to discuss the different options. GENERAL INFO Located in sunny San Diego during September for the past 8 years, ToorCon has been providing a meeting place for many of the top hackers and security professionals from all around the world to get together and discuss today's bleeding edge issues. ToorCon's main goal is to provide a low cost conference with a high quality atmosphere. This year we are still aiming to provide the same highly technical lectures you've come to know and love, but also set the theme as "Bits & Bites" which will highlight the low level skills of the trade and focus on Reverse Engineering, Protocol Analysis, Cryptography, Hardware Hacks, and other nifty bit-twiddling and byte munging techniques. ToorCon 8: Bits & Bites September 29th-October 2nd, 2006 San Diego Convention Center Rooms 24-26 111 W. Harbor Drive San Diego, CA 92101 http://www.toorcon.org Hope to see all of you there! -h1kari
