After reviewing the speaking schedule and event lineup this year I thought it would be helpful to mow down a path of ‘must-see’ interesting talks and events.  With 5 tracks and countless side events going on not to mention the line jockeying that will undoubtedly have to take place to even get into some of these talks, a loose but objective plan may prove useful yet again.

Full schedule: https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-18/dc-18-schedule.html

Thursday, July 29th

1300 Capri Room 111 Go Go Gadget Python! : Introduction to Hardware Hacking

Events

2000 Top of the Riv – Penthouse Monaco Tower The Summit

Friday, July 30th

1000 Track 4 Welcome and Making the DEF CON 18 Badge

1100 Track 2 Cloud Computing, a Weapon of Mass Destruction?

1200 Track 1 DNS Systemic Vulnerabilities and Risk Management: A Discussion

1230 Track 5 Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun

1300 Track 4 How Hackers Won the Zombie Apocalypse

1400 Track 4 Build your own UAV 2.0 – Wireless Mayhem from the Heavens!

1500 Track 2 Tales from the Crypto

1600 Track 4 VirGraff101: An Introduction to Virtual Graffiti

1700 Track 3 An Observatory for the SSLiverse

1800 Track 3 Bad Memories

1900 Track 4 Getting Root: Remote Viewing, Non-local Consciousness, Big Picture Hacking, and Knowing Who You Are

Saturday, July 31st

1000 Track 2 Exploiting SCADA Systems

1100 Track 2 Kim Jong-il and Me: How to Build a Cyber Army to Defeat the U.S.

1200 Track 5 Katana: Portable Multi-Boot Security Suite

1300 Track 3 Trolling Reverse-Engineers with Math: Ness… It hurts…

1400 Track 2 Wardriving the Smart Grid: Practical Approaches to Attacking Utility Packet Radios

1500 Track 5 My Life As A Spyware Developer

1600 Track 3 How to Hack Millions of Routers

1700 Track 1 Resilient Botnet Command and Control with Tor

1800 Track 4 Hacking with Hardware: Introducing the Universal RF Usb Keboard Emulation Device – URFUKED

1900 Track 1 You’re Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles

Events

2000 Contest Area Crash & Compile

2100 Track 1 Hacker Jeopardy

Sunday, August 1st

1000 Track 5 WiMAX Hacking 2010

1100 Track 5 Hardware Hacking for Software Guys

1200 Track 2 Powershell…omfg

1300 Track 1 How I Met Your Girlfriend

1400 Track 4 Breaking Bluetooth By Being Bored

1500 Track 2 Toolsmithing an IDA Bridge, Case Study For Building A Reverse Engineering Tool”

1600 Track 4 ExploitSpotting: Locating Vulnerabilities Out Of Vendor Patches Automatically

1700 Track 3 0box Analyzer: AfterDark Runtime Forensics for Automated Malware Analysis and Clustering