Sep 29 - Oct 1, 2006 http://www.toorcon.org
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. We are also proud to announce that this year we will be offering 2 hands-on training workshops related to hardware hacking and wireless embedded systems. Both courses are setup as crash courses on how to become a proficient hardware hacker and include the hardware and tools so the audience can continue hacking even after the con is over. -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SCFN] Wireless Workshop at ToorCon being run by Seattle Wireless guys on Mesh Networking Hey, Just thought I'd send you guys some info in case you were interested in attending this and didn't notice it on the ToorCon website. Might be kind of a cool thing to go to if you can get your work to pay for it because we're including a full soekris ap setup with registration to the class. ~ 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. Also, bunnie is throwing a class on hardware hacking which should be really interesting which includes a full embedded system, soldering iron, other hardware hacking tools, etc. ~ 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. Cheers! -David _______________________________________________ SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List To unsubscribe, please visit: http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
