BSidesROC 2024 - Closing Remarks

from the Lucky Fez. But all right, first of all, I again I want to thank all of you for coming because honestly we we could not do this conference without attendees. That would sort of be pointless, right? So thank you all for coming. Who had a good time? [Applause] Who learned something new today? Excellent. All right. Um the very first thing I wanted to go over because without them we couldn't do this either. Our sponsors ISSA Rochester chapter security risk advisors Newspire Sedara Blue Cycle ICR uh the RIT ESL Global Cyber Security Institute sponsored our training session yesterday. Metac did our fabulous CTF. Hack Five donated the one of the door prizes we're giving away as did Pentest

Labs and TCM Security. Uh OJ or Jack depending on what day of the week it is um was our art sponsor and in fact our artist was also a sponsor for us. Try was a sponsor in kind by offering the crypto challenge. Who worked on the crypto challenge? Nobody. Okay. Uh who worked on the CTF? a bunch of you. Yeah, I know there are some people that's all you did today, which is awesome. Uh and and the last uh sponsor is in memory of my late grandfather uh on behalf of my my dad u donated to us, which is really kind of him. So again, uh how about a huge round of applause for our sponsors because we

couldn't do this without them.

All right. So, let's start by doing our uh CTF prizes. Do we Let's uh bring up the folks from Metac.

See, let me pull up the winners. Um, thank you everyone for participating in the CTF today. We had a really good turnout. I think around 60 something participants, um, which is almost twice the amount we had last year. Um, we had 40 challenges. Seven of them remained unsolved. Um, 670 submissions and a lot of points. So, I'm going to announce third, second, and first place. Um, please come up, you know, in reverse order. So, first, second, third, and then we're going to, um, we have a few different prizes available, and we're going to ask you to pick which one you want. Um, and then we're the rest are going to be raffled away. So starting

with third place, okay, we have team nightmare from Ganon University. And it's Nicholas, Ashir, Luke, and John. Congratulations. Yeah. So maybe Yeah. Just hang out over here for And maybe you can take a a photo as well. Yeah. Um In second place, we have team Contagion from RIT and it's Chase, Deja, Sidarth and Lucas. And finally, in first place with not as high of a lead as we would expect, but it was team Password 123 with Stephen Kernney, Kyle, and Dalton. Congratulations. Um, and for those of you who participated in the CTF, if you got if you want to see any of the solutions, um, the challenges are still open. I think we're going to keep them

open for another month. Um, but you can just email me and I'll send you the solutions. Yep. Thank you. Was was your username also your password to your account? Everything. Yes. Thank you. You could have joined the team. Um, and thank you Kathy and everybody at Besides Rochester community for inviting us to run the CTF. [Applause] Yes. All righty. So, they're going to figure that out so that we can figure out uh what else we have to raffle off. Uh, who went to hardware hacking village and played with badges and lights and things? Yeah. How was that? Yeah, Blster and the hat are phenomenal. Let's give them a round of applause. Blster, unfortunately, I had to catch a

an early flight. Uh, but we want to we want to thank them. Um, I want to let you know because because a couple people did mention this to me. They're like, "Ah, I did the soldering thing and I got it, but the light won't come on because I have to solve this challenge." Well, what I'll tell you is we're actually going to provide a bunch of hints for that. And then after a period of time, we're going to give you the answers. So, if you get stuck, don't worry. You will be able to turn them on. The guys made sure that they should come on. So, it shouldn't be an issue of like electric, you know, electrical current. So, um, so

that will be a thing for you. Uh, let's see what else I have. Um oh um, we can start with a couple other raffle items. Besides Buffalo, generally generously donated a couple of scarves to raffle

off. Okay, good for the weather. We're just having not for the 60° we'll have in like two days. All right. Hat please. One fez. All right. Did anybody get did is there anybody who didn't get a ticket that wanted a ticket? All right. My volunteers bring your cups. We're gonna dump them in the fez.

496 0376. Who's my winner? Raise your hand. All right. [Applause]

You're welcome. And for the other one. 496 0377. Come on up. Come on. Yeah. [Applause]

All right. How we doing?

I think there's probably one of each. Ask him how many

you have one two three four five six seven more to go away. Can we Yeah, you wanna I'll do the back doors and breaches next to give you time. All right. Who knows about back doors and breaches? Okay, so we're gonna we've got some back doors and breaches we're going to raffle off next. And I'm going to ask my volunteers to run to whoever wins so we can kind of speed this along a little bit. All right, 496302.

[Applause] 496 0305. Thank you.

496277

496277 Going once, going twice. All righty.

4960389.

I don't know. All right. This is why we waited to give you tickets so we'd have less of this. 496391. All right. [Applause]

[Applause] 4960298

496384. And one last deck

496292. All right. All right. So now

All right. So we'll do this backwards. So, Pentester Labs has donated one month of their uh it's a one month subscription and we've got four of these to give away. So, that's the next thing we're going to do. When you when you win, we need you to come up and give him your email address and then that way we can keep track of it all. All right. For the first one, 496323.

Okay, for the next one,

496280. For the third one, 496381. Come on up. And for the last one of these, 496

0311.

Okay. These were each just one, right? Yep. Okay. One one month and one subscription. Yeah. Okay. So, then we have one of these each and then that's that, right? Yes. You didn't Nobody. Okay. No. All right. For some other We've got three other training raffles. Uh TCM Security Academy is donating um a 12 month training voucher, a sixmonth training voucher, and a three-month training voucher. We'll start with a three-month training voucher. 496360.

Yep. Come on [Applause] up for the sixmonth training voucher 496308. Come on up. And for the 12 month training voucher 496322. All right. [Applause] All right, now comes the big door prize you've all been waiting for. The fez. Not the fez. Hack five. Gave us a rubber ducky. So you may oo and a appropriately. This is our big door prize. Wow. All right. Here we go.

496317. All right.

Congratulations. Just so you know, uh, if if we we gave everybody should have gotten one of these in your bags. If you want an extra or you didn't get one, we'll keep them up here and you're welcome to come grab them. I think that's it for all of our vouchery things. I need you to email me. All

right. Thank you for the fez. All right. So, I think things have come to an end. I really hope everyone had a good time this year. We've done what we could to uh, you know, make it special and and have you learn some stuff. The store, the online store that we have for folks who wanted things they couldn't get here or just want more stuff um will be available for the next two three months. We'll try to make an announcement before we close the store like get, you know, one one last chance to get your get your stuff. Next year we're going to open the store early. So if people want to order things in advance so they can maybe wear

them to the con. Um you know that would be that will be a thing we will attempt to do. Um let's give our treasurer Susan a round of applause cuz she's the one who made that

happen. And Jason, where are you? Yeah. So th this this is our secretary and he's also been our volunteer wrangler. So let's give him and our volunteers a huge round of

applause. And with that so ends besides Rochester 2024. We hope to see you next year. We'll be making an announcement as soon as we can set the dates. Thanks again.