The Important People

Sophia d’Antoine

I’m the Olympic CTF coach and we’re bringing the gold back from Tokyo.

@calaquendi44

Justine Bone

As CEO of MedSec, Justine Bone leads a company that conducts vulnerability research on medical devices and health care systems. She has also served as the CISO of Dow Jones and the CSO of Bloomberg LP, among other security posts.

@justinembone

Geoff Chappell

Geoff Chappell is a Summercon alumnus and the author of the Windows programming resource at www.geoffchappell.com, of some articles for Poc||GTFO, and long ago of the book “DOS Internals”. He has been reverse engineering since before many attendees were born. He developed it to be a better programmer but he occasionally moonlights as a security researcher. Some years he does well from being a bit of both. Others he can’t get work as either.

Julian Cohen

As a CISO, Julian is dedicated to building thoughtful and effective security programs based on adversary intelligence with teams of brilliant practitioners.

@hockeyinjune

Dino Dai Zovi

Hacker and aspiring pasta chef.

@dinodaizovi

Ian Roos

The winner of the discount dino lookalike contest 2019 and 3 time Summercon co-presenter.

@ian_roos

Joshua Steinman

Joshua Steinman is a former tech support minion turned military officer, turned entrepreneur, who most recently served as Senior Director on the National Security Council, where he spent four years coordinating all cyber, telecommunications, cryptocurrency, and supply chain policy for the United States Government. He is currently building an industrial control systems cybersecurity company. You can find him at @aredangerousmen on Twitter, and blogging at steinman.substack.com. Feel free to ask him about his sock company.

@aredangerousmen

Pete Markowsky

Pete Markowsky is also a computer security professional. His background consists of software engineering with a focus on security tools and automation. He’s favorite part about bios is that they can be short because he never knows what to write. Pete is also honored and excited to be presenting at SummerCon.

@petemarkowsky

Brandon Edwards

Brandon Edwards is a computer security professional and general technology enthusiast. His background comprises software security, software engineering, and reverse engineering. His favorite x86 branch instruction is JZ, but his favorite rapper is Nas. Brandon is honored and excited to be presenting at SummerCon.

@drraid

Idan Warsawski

Idan is a software engineer and hardware hacker who can fall asleep better in an airplane seat than his own bed. His background includes a wide range of experience, ranging from manufacturing, embedded systems, backend development and software security. He recommends you always get the pasta option.

@idanwarsawski

Himanshu Dwivedi

Himanshu Dwivedi is the CEO of Data Theorem, Inc., an application security company focusing on API Security (RESTful & GraphQL), mobile apps (iOS &Android), Cloud Apps (Serverless), and Single Page WebApps (SPAs). Himanshu has been an avid start-up entrepreneur since 1999, where he and 3 friends started the west coast office of @stake, an information security firm that was later acquired by Symantec. In 2004, Himanshu co-founded iSEC Partners, an application security company that was acquired by the NCC Group in 2010. Himanshu has several publications, including six different books (Mobile Application Security, Hacking VoIP, Hacking Exposed: Web 2.0, Hacker’s Challenge 3, Storage Security, and Implementing SSH) as well as the owner of one patent (Patent number 7849504). He has also presented at numerous conferences, including 6-time BlackHat speaker. Himanshu received a B.S. from the Carlson School of Management (University of Minnesota), where he was awarded the Tomato Can Loving Cup Award, which is given to the school’s top graduating student.

@hdwivedi

THE LINEUP

FRIDAY, July 9

START OF SHENANIGANS

10:00am

OPENING REMARKS AND FINANCIAL REPORT

John Terrill and Mark Trumpbour

10:45am – 11:00am

ADVERSARY-BASED THREAT MODELING AND RISK ANALYSIS

Julian Cohen

11:00am – 12:00pm

WHO OWNS YOUR KERNEL?

Sophia d’Antoine and Ian Roos

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm – 2:30pm

EXPLORING THE INSANE WORLD OF AIRLINE GDS SYSTEMS

Idan Warsawski

2:30pm – 3:30pm

HOW LOW-TECH HACKERS HACK YOUR APIs IN 15 MINUTES OR LESS

Himanshu Dwivedi

3:30pm – 4:30pm

DEEPER FAKES FOR REAL FRIENDSHIP

Ang Cui & Hans Wu

4:30pm – 5:30pm

PWNIES AWARDS SEASON KICK-OFF

Pwnies Team

5:30pm – 6:00pm

HAPPY HOUR presented by GEMINI

6:00pm – 7:00pm

END OF SHENANIGANS

7:00pm

SATURDAY, July 10

START OF SHENANIGANS

10:00am

BRIEF REMARKS, RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PREVIOUS DAY, AND APOLOGIES

John Terrill and Mark Trumpbour

10:45am – 11:00am

WHAT CAN WE KNOW ABOUT WINDOWS SOURCE CODE?

Geoff Chappell

11:00am – 12:00pm

HOW A DEATH WISH BECOMES A PART OF PREFERRED QUALITIES FOR AN ELECTION AUDITOR?

Harri Hursti

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm – 2:00pm

DR. STRANGECODE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND TO LOVE THE CLOUD

Dino Dai Zovi

2:00pm – 3:00pm

BUREAUCRACY HACKING: LESSONS FROM THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL

Joshua Steinman

3:00pm – 4:00pm

SOME SECURITY OBSERVATIONS ON GO

Brandon Edwards and Pete Markowsky

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CLOSING CEREMONIES & TRADITIONAL FLIP CUP

Mark & Crew

5:00pm – 6:00pm

HAPPY HOUR presented by RANDORI

6:00pm – 7:00pm

END OF SHENANIGANS

7:00pm

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What is Summercon

Summercon is one of the oldest hacker conventions, and the longest running such conference in America. It helped set a precedent for more modern “cons” such as H.O.P.E. and DEF CON, although it has remained smaller and more personal. Summercon has been hosted in cities such as Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Atlanta, New York, Washington, D.C., Austin, Las Vegas, and Amsterdam.