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That's right folks, there will be no shipping from August 4th - 11th.

Your orders will be processed as soon as our team returns.

Thank you

Wall of Sheep team

Several amazing workshops also added:

• How Machine Learning Finds Malware Needles in an AppStore Haystack by Theodora Titonis
• Sniffing Scada by Karl Koscher

There will also be a very special workshop from 3 - 4 PM on Saturday, August 8th.

For complete schedule, abstracts and bios, see http://www.wallofsheep.com/pages/speaker-workshops-at-def-con-23

• Creating REAL Threat Intelligence With Evernote by Salvador Grec
• Fishing To Phishing: It's All About Slimy Creatures by Wayne Crowder
• From XSS to Root on Your NAS by Tony Martin
• Haking the Next Generation by David Schwartzberg
• Mobile Data Loss - Threats & Countermeasures by Mike Raggo
• Remaining Covert in an Overt World by Mike Raggo
• Violating Web Services by Ron Taylor

For abstract and bios, see http://www.wallofsheep.com/pages/speaker-workshops-at-def-con-23

• Is Your Android App Secure? by Sam Bowne
• The Packets Made Me Do It: Getting Started with Distributed Full Packet Capture Using OpenFPC by Leon Ward

For abstract and bios, see http://www.wallofsheep.com/pages/speaker-workshops-at-def-con-23

• 802.11 Monitoring with PCAP2XML/SQLITE by Vivek Ramachandran
• The Digital Cockroach Bait Station: How to Build Spam Honeypots by Robert Simmons
• dnstap - A Standard Interface to Real Time DNS Transaction Flows by Paul Vixie
• Global Honeypot Trends by Elliot Brink
• Hacker's Practice Ground by Lokesh Pidawekar
• I See You by Brian Wohlwinder and Andrew Beard
• MITM 101: Easy Traffic Interception Techniques Using Scapy by Bob Simpson
• PowerShell for Penetration Testers by Nikhil Mittal

For abstract and bios, see http://www.wallofsheep.com/pages/speaker-workshops-at-def-con-23

The Wall of Sheep would like to announce a call for presentations at DEF CON 23 at the Paris and Bally's Hotels in Las Vegas, NV from Friday, August 7th to Sunday, August 9th. This year, all accepted talks will be announced, recorded, and published by DEF CON Communications, Inc (yes, by the conference).

How: Complete the Call for Papers Form and send to cfp2015[at]wallofsheep[dot]com. Please also refer to the form for more details.

Our shipment leaves China between August 15th and 20th. We are being told we will have a demo unit ready for DEF CON.

Would you like to learn how tap into a network?

Do you want to learn how to capture people’s passwords or hear their phone conversations?

There are many learning opportunities at DEF CON, especially at the Wall of Sheep.  If you want to learn how to tap into a network, capture people's passwords, want to contribute to the Wall of Sheep, play Packet Detective, or play Capture The Packet, it is important that you come prepared with a computer with tools already installed!  You do not want to be downloading tools and software at the conference as the DEF CON network is arguably the world's most hostile network.

Computer Requirements

A computer with wired or wireless networking is required. Any platform is acceptable (e.g., Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Android). Administrative access on the computer is required!

Tools Used

Here is a list of tools that are frequently used at the Wall of Sheep and thus you should install most of them on your computer:

• Wireshark (http://www.wireshark.org/)
• Ettercap (http://ettercap.github.io/ettercap/)
• tcpdump  (http://www.tcpdump.org/)
• WinDump  (http://www.winpcap.org/windump/) --Windows only
• ngrep  (http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/)
• NetworkMiner  (http://www.netresec.com/?page=NetworkMiner)
• Xplico (http://www.xplico.org/)
• Cain & Abel (http://www.oxid.it/cain.html) -- Windows only

You can also choose a Linux distro live-CD aimed at penetration testing such as Kali Linux (https://www.kali.org/) to get up-and-running quickly as it has almost all the above tools installed already.

Step 1: Configure Your Machine

You will need to set your computer to allow it to capture ALL the traffic on the network, not just information sent specifically for that machine. An example of this would be to set your network adapter to promiscuous mode.

Helpful videos can be found under Tools and Training of our website.

Step 2: Be the Detective

The steps, repeat:

1. Monitor the traffic
2. Save the captures
3. Analyze the data

Once you have your machine configure and some of the tools installed, you can practice and hone your skills at the Wall of Sheep. The Wall of Sheep will supply you with a live feed of the DEF CON wireless network so you can capture packets and analyze the data.

Be sure to test your Packet Detective skills at the Packet Detective tables by experiencing the same type of challenges that are used in Capture The Packet.

Additional Information

There is bit more than installing the tools, configuring your machine, and the repetitive steps: you also need to understand the network you will be investigating. That is:

• Are you going to tap into and sniff a wired network or a wireless network?
• Does the network use a hub or a switch?

Many thanks to our sponsors for DEF CON 22!

Wall of Sheep Title Sponsor: Splunk

Wi-Fi Sheep Hunt Title Sponsor: O'Reilly

Emerging Mobile Technology Showcase Title Sponsor: MobileIron 

Emerging Mobile Technology Showcase Sponsor: Veracode

Packet Detective Title Sponsor: Fidelis

Wi-Fi Sheep Hunt Title Sponsor: Webhead

If you are interested in sponsoring the Wall of Sheep at an event, please e-mail info@wallofsheep.com to receive the latest sponsorship package. Thank you!