TakeDownCon Dallas 2011 starts today. This 2 day conference, which is in its debut year, is designed for technical information security and IT professionals of all levels.
The first keynote will be given by Josh Shaul and Alex Rothacker on the Anatomy Of A Database Attack. Today’s web-accessible databases are especially susceptible to attacks, partially because of the appeal of their lucrative repositories of data, and partially because IP entry affords hackers a broader range of methods with which to invade and gain access to database information. In this presentation, the Josh and Alex will describe some of the sophisticated methods used in invading enterprise databases, as well as provide guidelines and best practices on security and compliance in a variety of database systems including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, and Sybase.
Other first day presentations include:
- Balancing Parenthesis – Building Weapons – John ‘Kanen’ Flowers
- Hunting For That Vulnerable Web Application – Sean Arries
- Chain Reactions: Hacking SCADA – Dillon Beresford / Brian Meixell
- Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin!! – Jayson E Street
- Lord Of The Bing: Taking Back Search Engine Hacking From Google And Bing – Francis Brown
- Automated Malware Analysis – A Real World Architecture – Rodrigo Rubira Branco
- And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Our Logs: Malware Research And Analysis Using Logs – Zachary Wolff
- New Methodology For Breaking Into Critical IBM AIX UNIX Operating Systems – Tim Shelton
- Web Shellz: SQL Injection, And Cross-Site Scripting Is Boring – Gimme A Command Prompt – Joseph McCray
- Reverse Engineering Mechanical Locks And Applied Theory – Shane Lawson/ Babak Javadi
A full schedule can be found here and the synopsis here.
TakeDownCon Dallas takes place at the InterContinental Dallas and is sponsored by Live Hacking, among others. Some of the supporting organizations of the event include the FBI InfraGard’s North Texas Chapter and NAISG’s Dallas Chapter.
LiveHacking.com will bring you news, interviews and photos from the event.
