Month: March 2025

March 25, 2025 (in-person)

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Hi!

We have our regularly scheduled DC407 in-person meeting on March 25, 2025 at Serendipity Labs:

Date: March 25th at 7pm
Where: Orlando City Hall building. 450 S Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32801
Parking: Free parking is available on the street, there is paid parking in the parking lot behind the City Hall building, which costs approximately $14 for the meeting visit.

The meeting is held in the Serendipity Labs co-working space on the 3rd floor.

If you have any issues finding the meeting location post in our Discord #general channel and one of us will help you out.

Welcome our speaker James McQuiggan!!

Talk: The Art of Deception 2.0: Navigating Deepfakes and Social Engineering

Abstract: The convergence of advanced AI technologies and social engineering tactics has introduced sophisticated threats leveraging deepfakes and synthetic media. These malicious tools manipulate trust, compromise security, and exploit vulnerabilities within organizations. By utilizing realistic synthetic voices, manipulated videos, and fake credentials, cybercriminals deceive individuals, bypass authentication systems, and undermine organizational integrity. Understanding the mechanics of these attacks, their potential impacts, and the strategies to detect and mitigate them is critical for maintaining security. Insights into real-world examples and forward-looking solutions provide the foundation for safeguarding organizations against these increasingly convincing synthetic deceptions.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify and Analyze Synthetic Media Threats
  • Evaluate the Impact of Synthetic Media on Insider Threats
  • Implement Defensive Measures to Combat Deepfakes

Please make sure to get on discord (if not already): DC407 Discord !

See you all there!!

March 13, 2025 (Online) 8PM EST

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DC407 Online, Thursday March 13, 2025 at 8PM Eastern time on zoom.

The Imposter’s Guide to Hacking… Without Technical Talent! – Jayson E. Street

Hear from a lifelong imposter who has been fooling people for decades! Watch examples of the no talent and lack of technical know-how hacks using just a credit card and imagination. See a new perspective on utilizing everyday devices and toys being repurposed with almost zero modification into attack tools. Marvel at the audacity of this speaker’s declaration of his right to be called a hacker! Listen to this “pick me guy’s” virtue signaling rants on subjects that he can only be considered a tangible ally on at best! Try to make it to the end of his talk where he casts judgments and harsh critiques on a community that is failing so many of us with nonsense standards and prejudiced expectations which are only there to appease gatekeepers whose insecurities fuel the toxicity in OUR community! Oh, and there will probably be some memes so yeah that’ll help!

Jayson E. Street referred to in the past as: A “notorious hacker” by FOX25 Boston, “World Class Hacker” by National Geographic Breakthrough Series, a “paunchy hacker” by Rolling Stone Magazine and, as a “Change Agent” by the Director of Counter Intelligence at the Pentagon! He however prefers if people just refer to him simply as a Hacker, Helper & Human. He’s a Simulated Adversary for hire. The author of the “Dissecting the hack: Series” (which is currently required reading at 7 colleges in 4 countries that he knows of). Also the DEF CON Groups Global Ambassador. He’s spoken at conferences & summits in over 50 countries such as DEF CON, Le Hack, GISEC, IT-Defense, SYSCAN and at several other ‘CONs & colleges on a variety of Cyber Security/Hacking subjects. He also was asked to speak at the Pentagon on his revolutionary process of Situational Awareness training. He loves to explore the world & networks as much as he can. He has successfully robbed banks, hotels, government facilities, Biochemical companies, etc.. on five continents (Only successfully robbing the wrong bank in Lebanon once all others he was supposed to)! *He is a highly carbonated speaker who has partaken of Pizza from Bulgaria to Brazil & China to The Canary Islands. He does not expect anybody to still be reading this far but if they are please note he was proud to be chosen as one of Time’s persons of the year for 2006.

Please make sure to join our DC407 discord server: DC407 Discord Server.

RSVP: https://discord.gg/x8gq6q9P?event=1338348419583967302