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The OODA Loop Planning Guide for BLACKHAT USA 2023 and DEFCON 31 (Online and Virtual Events)

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Quick Links:

AI Village:

AI Village Events:  https://info.defcon.org/tag/?id=40299

Aerospace Village

Aerospace Village Events:  https://info.defcon.org/tag/?id=40280

Quantum Village

Quantum Village Events: https://info.defcon.org/tag/?id=40291

There is another village at Defcon focused on the Metaverse. It’s the XR village – looking at augmented reality of virtual reality and the entire metaverse, and of course, the security of the metaverse.

XR Village

XR Village Events:  https://info.defcon.org/tag/?id=40311

Black Hat USA 2023 and DefCon31:  Scheduled Events of Note

NOTE:  Previous events have been archived at the end of this post.  

Friday, August 11th through Sunday, August 13th

OpenAI, Hugging Face and DEFCON 31 (August 2023) on Red Teaming ChatGPT, Large Language Models, and Neural Language Models

  • On-site
  • Village Activity
  • Caesars Forum
  • A.I. Village
  • Fri, Aug 11, 10:00 – Fri, Aug 11, 18:00 PDT
  • Sat, Aug 12, 10:00 – Sat, Aug 12, 18:00 PDT
  • Sun, Aug 13, 10:00 – Sun, Aug 13, 13:00 PDT
  • Caesars Forum – Academy – 401-406 – AI Village

Participate in a Jeopardy-style CTFs competition that challenges you to break through the guardrails within 8 different LLMs. In your 50-minute session, execute prompt injections, find internal inconsistencies, and identify issues in information integrity, privacy, and societal harm. Compete for points and take home the prize, or just have fun coming up with novel attacks.

This exercise, first of its kind, will allow the best and brightest minds in the security industry to join diverse voices new and veteran to the AI scene in pursuit of making AI and machine learning safer.

Friday, August 11th

What the C-Suite needs to know about a Return to “Great Power Competition” and DoD Capabilities (per the Congressional Research Service)

Hack-A-Sat 4 Briefing
Hack-A-Sat 4 Team

  • On-site
  • Village Talk
  • Fri, Aug 11, 11:00 – Fri, Aug 11, 11:50 PDT
  • Caesars Forum – Summit – 208-214 – Aerospace Village
  • Aerospace Village

Hack-A-Sat 4 is quite simply the world’s first CTF in space. Now in its 4th year, the Hack-A-Sat competition series aims to enable security researchers of all levels to focus their skills and creativity on solving cyber security challenges on space systems and incentivize innovation in securing these systems. Stop by and witness the 5 finalist teams compete for $100K in prizes, learn more about the history of Hack-A-Sat, and the Moonlighter satellite hosting this year’s competition.

The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) is a big part of Hack-A-Sat 4. Further virtual resources for engaging the event virtuall can he found at:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-era-space-cybersecurity-begins-hack-a-sat/

Competition updates will be presented on the AV stage both Friday and Saturday morning at 11 am PT.

  • On-site
  • Village Talk
  • Caesars Forum
  • A.I. Village
  • Fri, Aug 11, 11:00 – Fri, Aug 11, 11:15 PDT
  • Caesars Forum – Academy – 401-406 – AI Village

DefCon31, Quantum Village: The Quantum Debates

Bob Gourley will be participating in a panel at the Quantum Village this year on the topic of privacy:  What will the age of quantum computing mean for personal privacy? A debate will take place between two standpoints  – with one side saying the advent of quantum computing and quantum technologies will absolutely destroy any hope of personal privacy.  While the other side will argue the age of quantum technologies and quantum security privacy will be enhanced for generations.

  • On-site
  • Quantum Village
  • Village Panel
  • Fri, Aug 11, 16:00 – Fri, Aug 11, 18:00 PDT
  • LINQ – 3rd flr – Quantum Village

Saturday, August 12th 

The History of XR From Fiction to Reality
Bob Gourley and Starr Brown

In this discussion XR village Executive Director Starr Brown interviews Bob Gourley, whose site OODAloop.com has been tracking XR topics since 2003. Bob has leveraged his experience as a cybersecurity professional and an enterprise CTO to produce research and reporting on XR that points to a future of incredible potential, if we can mitigate the new threats this emerging technology brings with it. Starr Brown is a security professional with a knack for using collaboration and innovation to meet both compliance and security needs and was early in identifying the unique security and risk mitigation needs of XR, making her the perfect person to extract insights from Bob in this fireside chat.

  • On-site
  • Village Talk
  • Sat, Aug 12, 14:00 – Sat, Aug 12, 15:00 PDT
  • Caesars Forum – Summit – 233 – Shared Stage
  • XR Village

Sunday, August 13th

Hack-A-Sat 4 Awards Ceremony
Hack-A-Sat 4 Team

  • On-site
  • Village Talk
  • 12:00 PDT
  • Caesars Forum – Summit – 208-214 – Aerospace Village
  • Aerospace Village
  • On-site
  • Village Talk
  • Aerospace Village
  • Caesars Forum – Summit – 208-214 – Aerospace Village
  • 13:50 PDT
 

Black Hat USA 2023 and DefCon31:  Scheduled Events of Note  (ARCHIVED)

Tuesday, August 8th

Wednesday, August 9th

Once again, Robert Stratton will be participating as judge in Black Hat Startup Spotlight:

Black Hat Startup Spotlight Competition

  • 4:30 – 5:30 PM PST
  • Business Hall, Bayside ABCD, Level 1, Startup City Theater

FINALISTS

Congratulations to our Top 4 Finalists:

Link to Event:  https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/spotlight.html

“Redacted Telecom Talk” (All Cops Are Broadcasting: Breaking TETRA After Decades in the Shadows) 

This talk will present the first public disclosure and security analysis of TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio): a European standard for trunked radio globally used by government agencies, police, prisons, emergency services and military operators. Additionally, TETRA is widely deployed in industrial environments such as factory campuses, harbor container terminals and airports, as well as critical infrastructure such as SCADA telecontrol of oil rigs, pipelines, transportation and electric and water utilities.  In this talk, we will make public these cipher suites (TEA and TAA1 to be precise) for the first time, and finally enable public review of one of the last bastions of widely deployed secret proprietary cryptography.
  • 11:20am-12:00pm PST
  • Mandalay Bay H, Level 2
  • Format: 40-Minute Briefings
Carlo Meijer  |  Founding Partner and Security Researcher, Midnight Blue
Wouter Bokslag  |  Founding Partner and Security Researcher, Midnight Blue
Jos Wetzels  |  Founding Partner and Security Researcher, Midnight Blue

Wednesday, August 9th: Join Us at the Blackhat USA 2023 “Stuck in the 90’s” Party

Wednesday, August 9th: Join Us at the Blackhat USA 2023 “Stuck in the 90’s” Party

Thursday, August 10th

Since the Supreme Court Dobbs decision in 2022 that reversed Roe v. Wade, the women’s reproductive health community has been on the frontline of the future of digital self-sovereignty (through various health and wellness platforms designed around the menstrual cycle and/or reporductive health services).  We have been tracking these issues for over a year – and will be providing some analysis on the topic in the months ahead.  So were glad to see the following talk at DefCon31.  

  • Virtual
  • Village Talk
  • Biohacking Village
  • 00:00 PDT

Thursday, August 10th: Join Us at the Blackhat USA 2023 Pool Party

(along with Hubble Technology, Nisos, Elevate Security and Delve Risk)

Thursday, August 10th: Join Us at the Blackhat USA 2023 Pool Party (along with Hubble Technology, Nisos, Elevate Security and Delve Risk)

About Daniel Pereira

Daniel Pereira is research director at OODA. He is a foresight strategist, creative technologist, and an information communication technology (ICT) and digital media researcher with 20+ years of experience directing public/private partnerships and strategic innovation initiatives.