Planning on attending the mother-load of conferences next week in Las Vegas? Are you a first-timer, or generally have trouble planning where to go and what to do? Here is a good list for you, this will take you from Wednesday when Black Hat and Security BSides Las Vegas begin until Sunday of DefCon Closing Ceremonies.

SecBarbie’s talk picks of the week:

Black Hat

Wednesday 1:45pm – 3pm

Augustus 1 & 2

Barnaby Jack – Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines Redux!

Wednesday 3:15pm – 4:30pm

Roman

Dan Kaminsky – Black Ops Of Fundamental Defense: Web Edition

Wednesday 4:45pm – 6pm

Augustus 5 & 6

Fyodor – Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine

Milano 5 – 8

Alex Hutton / Allison Miller – Ushering in the Post-GRC World: Applied Threat Modeling

Thursday 10am – 11am

Augustus 3 & 4

Chris Hoff – Cloudinomicon: Idepotent Infrastructure, Survivable Systems & Bringing   Sexy Back to Information Centricity

Thursday 11:15am – 12:30pm

Roman

Cesar Cerrudo – Token Kidnapping’s Revenge

Forum 25

Lee Kushner, Mike Murray   -  Your Career = Your Business

Milano 5 – 8

Tiffany Rad - The DMCA & ACTA vs. Academic & Professional Research: How Misuse   of this Intellectual Property Legislation Chills Research, Disclosure and   Innovation

Thursday 3:15pm – 4:30pm

Milano 1 – 4

Samy Kamkar - How I met your girlfriend

Wednesday also has the Cloud Security Alliance Summit with some pretty amazing, insightful, and wicked cool folks such as:

Chris Hoff   –   Cloudersize Keynote

Josh Pennell   –   Hacking the Hypervisor 2010

Steve Riley   –   Security and compliance in the Amazon cloud

Security BSides – Las Vegas 2010

I can’t even begin to pick the Security BSides talks (special mention to the InfoSec Mentor Panel that I’ll be on Wednesday at 6pm) as I would whole-heartedly endorse all of them. Bravo to the talk selection guys! So, here is the BSides Schedule:

	TRACK 1 On The Keys			TRACK 2 AFK
7/28/2010
10:00 AM	David Rook	Injecting Simplicity not SQL		Daniel Molina	Top 10 Things IT is Doing to Enable CyberCrime
11:00 AM	Ryan Linn	Multi-Player MetaSploit		Will Gragido	Through the rabbit hole: An Expose of Darknets and the Onion Routed Underground
12:00 PM	Christopher E. Pogue	Sniper Forensics		Gene Kim	Mobilizing the PCI Resistance: Lessons Learned From Fighting Prior Wars (SOX-404)
01:00 PM	Chris Lytle, Leigh Hollowell	CCDC		Andrew Hay, Chris Nickerson	Building Bridges -  Forcing Hackers and Business to Hug it Out
02:00 PM	Sean-Paul Correll, Luis Corrons	Catch That Butterfly: Stopping Mariposa in its Tracks and Revealing a Growing Underground Network of Amateur Hackers		Vik Phatak	ExploitHub: Arming the Pen Testers to Plug the Holes
03:00 PM	Dave Kennedy (Rel1K)	SET 0.6 release with special PHUKD Key		Paul Judge, David Maynor	The Dark side of Twitter, Measuring and Analyzing Malicious Activity on Twitter
04:00 PM	frank^2	Fuck Tools, Do It yourself Jerk		Grecs	Infosec Communities for Career Success: Understanding, Participating, and Cooking One Up
05:00 PM	Jabra			Joseph Sokoly	Infosec Young and Restless
06:00 PM	Jim MacLeod	Stupid IP Tables Tricks		INFOSEC Mentoring, Mentee-ing Panel
7/29/2010
10:00 AM	Jimmy Shah	Mobile Hackery		Josh Corman, Dennis Fisher, HD Moore, Jack Daniel	InfoSec Speed Debates
11:00 AM	Egyp7	Beyond r57		Chris Sumner	Social Network Special Ops
12:00 PM	HDM	Fun with VxWorks		Frank Breedijk, Ian Southam	The road to hell is paved with best practices
01:00 PM	Davi Ottenheimer	Keypad Bypass Hacks		Bruce Potter	How to Make Network Diagrams that Don’t Suck
02:00 PM	Zach Lanier	It Melts In Your Hand: An Overview of Security (Failures) In Mobile Applications		Eric Smith	Roman Profiles : The 6 Mistakes of
03:00 PM	Ray Kelly	A mechanics view of SQL injection		ValSmith	Social Engineering the CFP Process
04:00 PM	Moxie Marlinspike	How technology killed my heroes, and why they will never be born again		Chris Roberts	Planes, Trains and Automobiles: (OK, Cars and Buses)
05:00 PM	Jason Ross	Who Owns the Internet? AKA: Where did all that cyberspace go?		Andre Gironda	App Assessments Reloaded

DefCon 18

Friday 1pm – 2pm

Track 4

Dennis Brown - How Hackers Won the Zombie Apocalypse

Friday 2pm – 3pm

Track 3

Jim Rennie, Eric Rachner - Search & Seizure & Golfballs

Friday 3pm – 3:30pm

Track 5

Righter Kunkel - Air Traffic Control Insecurity 2.0

Friday 4pm – 5pm

Track 4

Tottenkoph - An Introduction to Virtual Graffiti

Friday 5pm – 6pm

Track 2

Sumit Siddharth - Hacking Oracle from Web Apps

Friday 6pm – 6:20pm

Track 5

Marisa Fagan - Be A MENTOR!

Friday 9pm – ???pm

Track 1

Hacker Jeopardy!!!!!!!      – Bring Booze!

Saturday 10am – 11am

Track 2

Jeremy Brown - Exploiting SCADA Systems

Saturday 10am – 11am

Track 4

Chris Paget - Extreme-range RFID Tracking

Saturday 11am – 12pm

Track 4

Barnaby Jack – Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines Redux!

Saturday 12pm – 1pm

Track 1

Nicholas Percoco, Christian Papathanasiou – “This is not the Droid you’re looking for..”

Saturday 1pm – 2pm

Track 1

frank^2 - Trolling Reverse-Engineers with Math: Ness…. It Hurts…

Saturday 3pm – 4pm

Track 2

James Arlen - SCADA and ICS for Security Experts: How to avoid Cyberduchery

Saturday 3pm – 4pm

Track 5

Garry Pejski - My Life as a Spyware Developer

Saturday 4pm – 5pm

Track 4

Jayson Street - Deceiving the Heavens to Cross the Sea: Using the 26 stratagems for Social Engineering

Saturday 5pm – 6pm

Track 4

Leigh Honeywell, follower - Physical Computing, Virtual Security: Adding the Arduino Microcontroller Development Environment to your security toolbox

Saturday 7pm – 9pm

Track 5

DefCon Security Jam III: Now in 3D?

Saturday 10pm – ??pm

Track 4

10,000 Cent Pyramid

Sunday 10am – 11am

Track 4

Mike Bailey - Web Services we just don’t need

Sunday 11am -  12pm

Track 2

Valsmith, Colin Ames, Anthony Lai - Balancing the Pwn Trade Deficit

Sunday 1pm -  2pm

Track 5

mc.fly, rvd, vyrus, no maam - ChaosVPN for Playing CTFs

Sunday 2pm -  3pm

Track 3

David Smith, Samuel Petreski - A new approach to forensic methodology - !!BUSTED!! Case Studies

Sunday 4pm -  5pm

Track 1

The Suggmeister - Social Networking Special Ops: Extending Data Visualization Tools for Faster Pwnage

Sunday 5pm -  6pm

Track 1

Justin Morehouse, Tony Flick - Getting Social with the Smart Grid

Sunday 6pm

CLOSING CEREMONIES!!!!!

Please reclaim all lost livers here!

If you are NOT going to be in the melt-your-face-off land of Las Vegas next week, you can follow all of the action and some of the parties via my live-conference feed on twitter @IOBarbie !

To quote the weather channel

“The storm may reach the top 3 of all-time in the Washington, D.C., area and may rival the record of 28″ from the

“Knickerbocker” storm of 1922.”

I am taking a little break in the festivities to let you all know that it has officially snowed pretty hard at ShmooCon VI. My flight has been canceled for Sunday, so with any luck at all I will be arriving back in Chicago (aka, the land that can handle 6″< of snow) sometime early next week.
With that, I have to say that the spirits of all the con goers is absolutely amazing! Trash-bag sleds are being used as well as certain individuals who have snowboards and snowshoes. The content of the event has started out with a bang, and the actual tracks tomorrow look exceptionally promising!

Thank you to @quine ‘s employer for hosting the Securitytwits meet-up this afternoon, it was VERY enjoyable! Syngress held a very nice happy-hour meet-up, and the DC949 party was absolutely killer! Festivities are still commencing as I type, but sometimes one must just call it an evening!