Recon 2014 Call For Papers - June 27 - 29, 2014 - Montreal, Quebec

CHRISTMAS ISLANDS PATENT APPLICATION 20142329 RECON 2014 February 17th, 2014 BACKGROUND [FIELD OF INVENTION] - REcon 2014 is a computer security conference for reverse engineers, hackers, and enthusiasts. - This patent lays claim to all security conferences and gatherings of hackers where 50% or more of the attendance consists of reverse engineers. [DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART] - Presently there are many awesome security conferences, but REcon is the only one we know of that is dedicated to reverse engineering. Reversing is our jam. - Numerous other security conferences exist that are worthy of props. Our conference refines the art with a strong focus on the topic of reverse engineering and features highly technical talks. + + + + + + + + + \ / + _ - _+_ - ,__ _=. .:. /=\ _|===|_ ||::| | | _|. | | | | | | __===_ -=- ||::| |==| | | __ |.:.| /\| |:. | | | | .|| : |||::| | |- |.:|_|. :__ |.: |--|==| | .| |_ | ' |. ||. |||:.| __|. | |_|. | |.|...||---| |==| | | | |_--. || |||. | | | | |. | | |::.||: .| |==| | . : |=|===| :|| . ||| .| |:.| .| | | | |:.:|| . | |==| | |=|===| . |' | | | | | | | |' : . | ; ; ' | ' : ` : ' . ' . . : ' . . ` . . ' . [FIG. 1] SUMMARY REcon is a computer security conference with a focus on reverse engineering and advanced exploitation techniques. It is held annually in Montreal, Canada. The conference offers a single track of presentations over the span of three days along with technical training sessions held before the presentation dates. Technical training varies in length between two and four days. REcon 2014 is almost here and we have another great line up of trainings and shenanigans. This year we feel the need to patent our unique brand of awesome before someone else tries to take it away from us. DETAILED DESCRIPTION REcon is an event defined by our attendees, speakers, and trainers. The attendees have always been, and will always be, those looking to learn something new, share ideas, and unwind in a welcoming environment. The trainers are the best in their fields. This year we are bringing together a great set of trainings. - Reversing telecom platforms for security: applied hacking on legacy monolithic MSC and HLR to modular ATCA's reversing by Philipe Langlois (2 days: 25-26 June) - Introduction to USB Emulation with the Facedancer by Travis Goodspeed and Sergey Bratus (2 days: 25-26 June) - The Exploit Laboratory: Red Team by Saumil Shah (2 days: 23-24 June) - The Exploit Laboratory: Master by Saumil Shah (2 days: 25-26 June) - Reverse Engineering Malware by Nicolas Brulez (4 days: 23-26 June) - iOS 7 Kernel Exploitation Training by Stefan Esser (4 days: 23-26 June) - Keep It Synple Stupid - Utilizing Programmable Logic for Hardware Reverse-Engineering by Dmitry Nedospasov and Thorsten Schroeder (4 days: 23-26 June) - Windows Internals for Reverse Engineers by Alex Ionescu (4 days: 23-26 June) The speakers define the conference and we invite you to submit for this year's REcon CFP. The conference features a single track of talks. Some guidelines for talks are: - 30 to 60 minute presentations, or longer, we are flexible - We are open to proposals for workshops that would occur alongside talks - Trainings of 2, 3 or 4 days focused on reversing and/or exploitation - There will be time for five to ten minute informal lightning talks during the REcon party The conference talks in the following fields are encouraged: - Hardware reverse engineering - Software reverse engineering - Protocol reverse engineering - Finding vulnerabilities and writing exploits - Novel data visualization for hackers and reverse engineers - Bypassing security and software protections - Attacks on cryptography in hardware and software - Techniques for any of the above on new or interesting architectures - Wireless hacking (We aren't talking about wifi here) ++ Anything else elite ++ The more description you provide, the more you are able to claim as your invention. +---------------------------------------------------------+ | | | +----------+ | | + Research || Share Ideas |---->| Create New Ideas | | | +------+ +----+-------+ +--------+---------+ | | ^ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------------+