The venue has been chosen. The dates have been set. CarolinaCon Seven is off and running.

We're updating the website at the moment and will try and get everything up to date as soon as we can.

Some of the information is not correct yet so if you call the Hotel and try and obtain a room, you might have trouble at the moment. We will let you know as soon as we have that information available by updating this site.

Until then, here is a slide show of CarolinaCon Six for you:

The planning process for CarolinaCon Seven continues to roll along. The call for speakers has officially ended. Thank you for submitting a talk if you did. We will get back to you as soon as we make decisions about the final lineup of talks.

Don't forget about the 2nd annual unofficial CarolinaCon shootout. Chill, the organizer of the event, has put up a website for it here.

It's been a while since the last update but the CarolinaCon staff is running along at full speed and we've got a lot to tell you about.

In case you missed it, here is the link for getting the special $69/night room rate for the conference at the Holiday Inn on Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh, NC.

We have a very special surprise that all of our Twitter Followers found out about early. We have selected the first round of speakers for CarolinaCon Seven. The speakers and their presentations are:

• Deral Heiland - If you own a Multi Function Printer (MFP), then I own you
• Chris Teodorski - Kippos and bits and bits and bits: Fun with SSH honeypotting
• Keith Pachulski / sec0ps - The Failure that is Penetration Testing, Network and Physical
• Gerry Brunelle - Dissecting the Hack: Malware Analysis 101

Congratulations to those speakers listed above. We're happy to have you presenting. For those of you who haven't heard from us yet, we are still making decisions. Also, the deadline for all submissions is March 1st, 2011 so if you have an idea for a presentation that you want to give then get your submission in now!

We are also in need of donations for swag and give-aways. If you are interested in providing us with something then let us know by sending an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

For the first time at CarolinaCon, we have a second full conference room available and we are open for ideas to how to use it so if you have any then send us an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or post your idea on the NC2600 Forum. We also have some side events happening. One of those will be the second annual unofficial CarolinaCon shootout. If you want information about that then head over to the NC2600 Forums.

We also have a T-Shirt design contest going on. The winner gets two free shirts, free admission to the con, and mad props.

Well, the time has arrived for us to unveil the list of great speakers for CarolinaCon Seven. It was a very tough series of decisions this year to select the following speakers out of the plethora of talk submissions that we received.

In many cases, there were only a few staff votes separating those who were chosen with those who were not. We invite those speakers who were not chosen to still attend the conference and we are very grateful that they took time to send in a submission.

• sec0ps - The Failure that is Penetration Testing
• Gerry Brunelle - Dissecting the Hack: Malware Analysis 101
• G. Mark Hardy - Tales from the Crypto
• Deral Heiland - If you Own a Multi-Function Printer then I Own You
• Chris Teodorski - Fun with SSH Honeypotting
• Lisa Lorenzin - Security Lessons from Cracking Enigma
• Thomas Holt - Do Personality Traits Increase the Likelihood that You will Hack?
• Dr. Tran - How to Own and Protect Your Office Space
• Omar Santos - Current and Future Trends in Cybercrime and Exploitation
• mjg - Yara and Python: The Malware Detection Dynamic Duo
• Branson Matheson - TTL of a Penetration
• Nick Fury - Serial Killers: USB as an Attack Vector
• Justin Troutman - Mackerel: A Progressive School of Cryptographic Thought
• Ryan Linn - PIG: Finding Truffles without Leaving a Trace
• purehate - Why your Password Policy Sucks
• ronin - Hack from a Library with Katana
• Adam Drew - Music and Audio Production with FOSS
• Jordan Sissel - logstash: Open Source Log and Event Management

For all of you out there in hacker land who are just now finding out about CarolinaCon, we wanted to put all of the relevant information right on the home page in one easy to find spot.

• CarolinaCon Seven will be held on April 29th, 30th, and May 1st, 2011
• CarolinaCon Seven will be held at the Holiday Inn on Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh, NC
• Registration opens at 5:30pm on Friday, April 29th
• Registration opens at 9:30am on Saturday April 30th
• Registration will be open during general conference hours throughout the weekend
• The total cost for CarolinaCon Seven is $20 (cash only) at the door
• You cannot pre-register for CarolinaCon Seven
• The schedule of talks and talk abstracts can be found ON THIS PAGE!

But wait, there's more! CarolinaCon is going to have a mixture of side events, including:

• TOOOL Lockpicking Village
• Capture The Flag (CTF)
• Hacker Trivia
• Hacker Movie Screenings
• The Unofficial CarolinaCon Shoot
• ....and more!!!