05-02-2020 - COBOL CTF by Sam Bowne!

Online meeting: https://phack.my.webex.com/meet/phack
2PM Pacific Standard Time. From there Sam will take it away!.

COBOL CTF

Description:

The world runs on COBOL, but few people remember it: "an elegant
weapon for a more civilized age." Learn COBOL programming in a fun
CTF-style workshop. Challenges include building Web requests,
brute-forcing logins, number theory, and cracking classical encryption
methods. We will use Open COBOL on free Debian 9 Google cloud
servers. Participants need to bring a computer and a credit card,
which won't be charged. Familiarity with coding (in any language) is
helpful but not required.

Come party like it's 1959! COBOL will never die!

Bio:

Sam Bowne has been teaching computer networking and security classes
at City College San Francisco since 2000, and is the founder of
Infosec Decoded, Inc. He has given talks and hands-on trainings at
Black Hat USA, RSA, DEF CON, DEF CON China, HOPE, and many other
conferences.

Credentials: PhD, CISSP, DEF CON Black Badge Co-Winner