Pay No Attention to That Hacker Behind the Curtain: A Look Inside the Black Hat Network
summary
Black Hat's network team stages gear in Salt Lake City then ships racks to Vegas, replaces Mandalay Bay distribution closets and installs FortiGate gateways with a span port feeding RSA NetWitness and conference Wi‑Fi by Ruckus. The deployed sensors capture about 1 Gb/s peak, ~10 TB of packets and ~125 million sessions (training traffic dominates), observers see cleartext credentials and a BigFix host‑inventory leak to seven servers, and all raw captures are deleted after the event.
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chapters (34)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:15Meet the team
- 3:14Back in the day
- 4:04Current shame
- 5:13The circus
- 6:21Our team
- 7:31Steve
- 8:22Extended Team
- 9:09Backend Infrastructure
- 13:36Traffic Summary
- 14:26Total Sessions
- 14:49Top Applications
- 15:47Packet Capture
- 18:44IRC Over Clear Text
- 19:27Email Subjects
- 21:24Botnet Traffic
- 22:43Justins Class
- 23:37BigFix
- 24:47Training Class
- 28:25Demos
- 29:49Questions
- 30:00Physical Security
- 34:50Unexpected Issues
- 36:18Suggestions
- 36:53Vendors
- 39:25Supply Chain
- 40:05The Smoking Gun
- 40:37Missing Cables
- 41:19Def Con vs Black Hat
- 43:50The Big Fix
- 44:24Rogue Access Points
- 45:00LTE
- 46:04Cell Phones
- 46:27Network Issues
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