Vegas Here I Come!
In a serious contender for the “my favorite email of the year” award I was recently contacted by Don from ethicalhacker.net and asked if I was interested in a free briefings pass for Black Hat this year. I’ve never been to Black Hat or Defcon so I jumped at the chance. I’ll be attending Black Hat and Defcon so if anyone has any tips for a first-timer please let me know. The only thing I’m sure of so far is that I’ll keep my Wi-Fi off the entire time 🙂 I haven’t had a ton of time to study recently but what time I have had I’ve used on C and assembly language. I went through a small book on C programming to get more familiar with the language and am currently watching SecurityTube’s “x86 Assembly Language and Shellcoding on Linux” course. I’m halfway through the course and Vivek has done an outstanding job of explaining and demonstrating the concepts of assembly language in a way that has made it easy for me to learn. I’ll probably do a more in depth review after I’ve watched more vide...