Every now and then you run into a problem where the official answer is “pay more money.” In this case, I wanted access to a large number of malware analysis reports, and the available options were an API tier or a threat intelligence subscription. Rather than doing that, I opened my terminal and started poking at the website.

Bio: Macros. Most know who I am, if not feel free to say hi.

Do you want to know what’s on your body, and what that material contains? Me too! Tonight, I’ll give you a quick tour of fabrics: the basic types, the processes they go through, what is and isn’t fucked about it, and how you can make better choices for your body and the planet when you get dressed.

Bio: Floof is a blue teamer by day, an exhausted lump that sometimes does some sort of craftwork by night, and an aspiring NPC at all times.

This talk details Ashley’s journey to watch Monty Python (and every other blu-ray she got her hands on) faster, in which she got nerd-sniped into building a computer cluster capable of handling asymmetric nodes and tasks dynamically, to minimize latency and maximize throughput, and all of the specific intricacies she utilized to optimize it.

Bio: Ashley is a cybersecurity professional specializing in hardware, reverse engineering, and cyber operations, with a wide variety of interests (aka a massive nerd). She is also a federally certified drone pilot. “If you can break things, you can also almost break things, and I think that’s neat.”

Have you ever wondered how the math adds up for your paychecks? Do you like changing numbers around to imprecisely model how your budget should be set up for next week’s little treats? Want to see if your AGI could fit under the Free File Alliance’s thresholds next year? While I can’t be your financial advisor or trainer for Excel Esports, I can show you how some of the math works and where to figure it out, where this might end up being useful, and why LibreOffice ended up being my tool of choice for this specific task. (I’ll also cover the FFA’s options, because free file doesn’t have to mean doing all the math yourself.)

Bio: lambda (any/all) is a practicing computer scientist, number cruncher, user of the third person, and everything-doer. A professional SRE with overlapping experience in both software engineering and DevOps, they have interests in security and privacy with special consideration for consumer rights.

This, but a talk. Evil AI has leveled up to using advanced installer on top of their inno installer. This talk examines that evolution and looks at the different levels of obfuscation they employ to hide their payloads.

Bio: I’m a soc analyst who likes malware. I also shitpost a lot.