<span style>CarolinaCon-8 will be held on May 11th-13th 2012 in Raleigh NC. For the cheap price of your average movie admission with popcorn and a drink ($20) YOU could get a full weekend of the following instead.</span><br style>
<br style><br style><span style>FASCINATING TALKS / ESTEEMED PRESENTERS!!!</span><br style><br style><span style>- Big Bang Theory: The Evolution of Pentesting High Security Environments (OR) Advanced SQL Injection - Joe McCray</span><br style>
<span style>- Spyometrics: New World of Biometric Surveillance - Dr. Noah Schiffman</span><br style><span style>- Identifying Cyber Warriors - Professor Farnsworth / Tom Holt</span><br style><span style>- Bypassing Android Permissions - Georgia Weidman</span><br style>
<span style>- Patch to Pwned: Exploiting Firmware Patching to Compromise MFP Devices - Deral Heiland</span><br style><span style>- Attacking CAPTCHAs - Gursev Singh Kaira</span><br style><span style>- Hacking as an Act of War - G. Mark Hardy</span><br style>
<span style>- Project Byzantium: Improvisable Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Networking for Disaster Zones - The Doctor</span><br style><span style>- Hacking your Mind and Emotions - Branson Matheson</span><br style><span style>- Intro to Hacking Bluetooth - ronin</span><br style>
<span style>- Malware Retooled - Big-O</span><br style><span style>- Inside Jobs: Stealing Sensitive Data and Intellectual Property - Vic Vandal</span><br style><span style>- It's 2012 and My Network Got Hacked - Omar Santos</span><br style>
<span style>- DevHack: Pre-Product Exploitation - Snide</span><br style><span style>- Raspberry Pi's Impact on Hacking - DJ Palombo</span><br style><span style>- Declarative Web Security: DEP for the Web - Steve Pinkham</span><br style>
<span style>- Dr. Tran goes to Switzerland - Dr. Tran</span><br style><br style><span style>BONUS TALK!!!</span><br style><br style><span style>- purposely unannounced topic - purposely unannounced presenter (NSFW and NSFKids, will occur late Friday night)</span><br style>
<br style><br style><span style>MEGA-FUN SIDE EVENTS!!!</span><br style><br style><span style>- Capture The Flag (CTF)</span><br style><span style>- Crypto Challenge</span><br style><span style>- Hacker Trivia</span><br style>
<span style>- Unofficial CarolinaCon Shootout</span><br style><span style>- Lockpicking Instruction (random times to be announced in breakout room, not quite as big or organized as the past couple of years)</span><br style>
<span style>- and more!!!</span><br style><br style><br style><span style>CarolinaCon proceedings will run;</span><br style><span style>- 7pm to 11pm on Friday</span><br style><span style>- 10am to 10pm on Saturday</span><br style>
<span style>- 10am to 5pm on Sunday</span><br style><br style><br style><span style>LODGING:</span><br style><br style><span style>If you're traveling and wish to stay at the Con hotel here is the direct link to the special CarolinaCon group rate ($95, sorry for the rate hike, we outgrew the last hotel and it's at the Hilton this year):</span><br style>
<a href="http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/R/RDUNHHF-CCC-20120511/index.jhtml" target="_blank" style>http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/R/RDUNHHF-CCC-20120511/index.jhtml</a><br style><span style>Shorter link version:</span><br style>
<a href="http://bit.ly/vK8Y2y" target="_blank" style>http://bit.ly/vK8Y2y</a><br style><br style><br style><span style>For the final schedule and all the other exciting details (as they develop and as our webmaster gets to them) stay tuned to;</span><br style>
<a href="http://www.carolinacon.org/" target="_blank" style>http://www.carolinacon.org</a>