Closing Remarks & CTF Winners [BSidesPDX 2024]

[Music] good afternoon

everyone thank you that was really awesome um I'm just here to do a little bit of closing remarks uh and we're also going to announce the results of the CTF as well as the Prize winners so do stick around for that um I'm going to keep my marks quite brief um I want to thank the board of directors uh without these people bsid PDX wouldn't actually exist as in a 5 1c3 um if you are interested in becoming a board member we would love to talk with you uh this is an interesting way to perhaps gain some insight into how businesses operate if you want to maybe start your own business um also if you

have any skills in things like accounting or paperwork or tax preparation or other really interesting subjects like that we would very much like to talk to them but first of all thanks very much to the board of directors yeah our board meetings are in fact open you can come you can see how uh interesting or boring they are so please show up we'd love to have you uh the review board members these are the people who take all of the C cfp submissions of which there are quite a lot figure out which ones are going to work they work with the presenters to uh sometimes tune them up to get them to where they need to be for this

convention and without their work we wouldn't have any talks or workshops so thank

you all the people who organize all the stuff for the conference uh venue social media website video volunteers the CTF um the badge which I actually thought was really cool this year yeah yeah all the little gifts we give to speakers and presenters and volunteers right um all of the organization of all of these things happening simultaneously it's really hard work and thank you to everyone did [Applause] that uh just wanted to add this in here the badge is open source go to the GitHub download the stuff play with it uh it's free to use so go forth and do that um and without f further Ado actually yeah without further Ado let me introduce Allison and Casey to talk

about the CTF hi everyone I'm Allison and this is Casey and we are the co-lead co-parent co- cat herters of this particular CTF her job is keep me coherent because I am very tired all right first and foremost we could not have the CTF without all our challenge writers volunteers unfortunately I could not get the name of the day of volunteers but a special shout out to the social engineering team who aren't actually in security their dungeon Masters I roped into

this uh like dear friends please bail me out here I have gotten in over my head and it turns out uh they had a great time we hope you had a great time with that I'd also like to thank Kate at Thunder egg accounting who helped with the theming for Duke's dinner party I apparently don't know how to correctly commit fraud and she was more than happy to tell me how you would commit fraud as the CEO's personal assistant we'd also like to thank Robin and Don who um were like hey could you help us with this they're like sure so they're actually Evan's parents and Evan is the uh original IDE ideator of Duke's dinner

party and we have been working on that since 2020 so it's been a long time in the offing for that CTF challenge so I really hope you had a chance to play it so special thanks to Robin and Don all right uh yeah okay if I had more brain power maybe I would have made this a slide that slowly appears so you pay attention but nevertheless would like to award the judge's choice for intro to social engineering that was the one where you had to get the Corp Wi-Fi to IFC they actually showed up at the room and said hey front Des said to come to the third floor to get the password so uh that by unanimous vote of the judges

won honor will mention to false flag and drop tables sorry sorry I was too lazy to actually paste your whole team name in that's uh please come get your certificate come [Applause] on IFC where are you there's a prize involved and we said you must be present to win we meant it one of the judges wrote himself his own award certificate I am being made fun of okay cool I deserve that uh winner of the CEO's cell phone sbian Lex please come up

in addition to this lovely certificate that I have tried to write neatly uh you get one of the small prizes which is anything from the vouchers the nail polish or the switches your choice congratulations thank you and you had made me read that out loud so will you will you see prizes yes all right well while they pick their prize we'll talk about our honorable mention we don't know which team it is but they called the CEO's personal assistant saying they were the child they were scared and they were hurt and they did a very good job we don't know who you are but good job the judges thought you deserved a mention all right uh best fish winner

cyber Ducks cyber ducks come on up

we had some really excellent fishes and so we couldn't really uh determine who should get honorable mention either false flag or osek as someone who's in Academia osek theming of a student group asking an auditor with 30 years experience to come give a talk was spot on but uh I got outvoted so there are two honorable mentions false flag and osc all right Duke's dinner party so uh this one was one where you were supposed to pick the safe with the fork uh this was based on a lockpicking lawyer video from like 2019 where you picked the safe with the things at the dinner party so that's why you had the dinner setting uh winner is flying

hedgehogs are you guys here did you go home okay well they are young we know that uh but the the judge felt that they should win because they came back six times and eventually succeeded so they showed excellent persistence creativity and then honorable mention we're not sure which team used a piece of paper to pick the fingerprint lock so if you would identify yourself later we don't know who you are sorry yeah you can come on on up [Applause] up uh since the winner is not here to get their prize on the certificate I can make make you a certificate if you like but I figured you'd want the prize so small C CKC over there we couldn't

figure out how to make a slide for the list of the scoreboard however since we didn't hide the scoreboard there are no surprises uh so the way this will work once our judges choices are done picking theirs is we're going to call your team names you're going to pick a prize we're all going to cheer and we'll go until we have no more prizes the thing you are picking here is uh or determines so first place gets first pick second place gets second pick make sense am I sounding coherent still great that's the shock in the here the twist ending is I'm still coherent all right [Applause] EK please be quick there are a lot of

you all right and second place okay maybe I should say one person from the team should come up for prize picking this is what we call evolving your grading script and evolving your rubric Back to the Future who you may recognize as our keynote speaker from this morning soe cook

congratulations your social engineering attempt almost made honorable mention uh team do drop tables you're on Deck as number [Applause] three all right we're waiting false flag your number four by the way I really liked your Chase email alert sbian Lex you're number five cool sorry uh we six Frosty

buns number seven's not

Bank uh near and dear to my heart is number eight Admiral sin Akbar wait wait wait for it with a score of 2600 [Applause] uh I think I'm going to have teams just sort of line up over here so that we don't try the audience's patience too much nine is Darude Sandstorm on making half the team feel old 10 is [Applause] cyberduck teapot slim and I have to ask are you going to the Tipsy teapot after this all right team 12 is [Applause] Team 13 is team [Applause] team 14 is Praxis nice to see you [Applause] again 15 is little dumpers [Applause] okay I think 16 is [Applause] www 17 is void [Applause] Vikings which I believe is the Portland

State team uh 18 is banan phone [Applause] team 19 must play D and D because they're the murder [Music] hobos team 20 is alien [Applause] Soul uh 21 is whis at OSU so that's near and dear to my heart anyone okay 22 is

zp 23 is test penguin 24 is IFC well I think no showed so space cadet

25 and uh deep philosophical reflection who am I for [Applause] 26 no one all right 27

chipseek 28 is curious coyote

anybody if you are yeah if you the if you played in the CTF please raise your hand and you haven't gotten a prize yeah just come up yeah I'm not reading all of these okay all right I think we'll wrap that and figure out what to do with that offline please volunteer next year we cannot do this without challenges and if it was your first CTF as promised at closing ceremonies we have a commemorative bracelet for playing in your first CF really we would like you to fill out the survey please volunteer next year we start planning the CTF 10 to 11 months in advance so if you are interested in volunteering find me I

have a signup sheet somewhere in this pile of paper we'd love to have your help and we hope you had fun on that note I'm getting right on thank you that was awesome uh once again I'm going to switch this over hopefully it'll work yes perfect okay thank you all for staying thank you all for being here on the last day because you are so awesome and stayed all the way to the end of the last day you get to actually give me some very important feedback so your opinion matters more than anybody else's all right so venue here or Convention Center show a hands yell clap whatever so Oregon Convention Center here more workshops all right we had a bunch of

workshops this year you you like that okay cool more talks okay well we're probably going to do both I mean whatever right uh 30 minute talks yeah hour talks um it was surprising to me how many people were like where's lunch and I'm like I don't know did you buy it so um do you want more catering ah import important caveat are you willing to pay for more cating huh okay yeah that's that's a really good question so um this is something we've gone back and forth with uh about for years um whether or not to have like a lunch break there are pros and cons of both approaches um one means you maybe miss a

talk that you wanted to do because you're hungry and you need to eat on the other hand when you have 500 people all trying to get lunch at once an hour is kind of a bad amount of time right so we will take your opinions into consideration I have no idea what we're going to decide though okay so what about what we'll be we'll actually be sending out a survey uh that will have text boxes so you can tell us all this stuff there thank you for that um thank you for all of our sponsors uh we wouldn't be able to do it without them securing Hardware BPM Orca security hacker one I hope everybody went over to

uh the few of them who were in the sponsor room and talked to them uh eclips isaka they were in there uh no starch identity Issa wonderful stuff uh if you happen to know uh in your company or workplace who we could talk to about possibly getting your company to sponsor us please let me know uh no starch press discount is of course still active until December 1st bp24 use that to your benefit uh and thank you to everybody the artists the CTF team the badge designers everybody who donated the AV crew the volunteers the speakers the PSU staff and finally and most importantly all of you [Applause] we've shown this several times it's important I think for us to uh to

acknowledge the people uh in Our Lives who are unfortunately no longer in our lives so uh in memory of Crystal Kaufman thank you very much for the anonymous donation that was made in her honor that's it we'll see you next year be kind and have fun to each other or have fun with each other and oh yeah as as we announced uh yesterday's closing ceremonies we are doing hack booat again uh in 2025 June 6 and uh we will be hopefully announcing more details on that shortly so thanks a lot everybody uh now it's time for you all to exit the building [Applause] [Music] w