The speaker discusses their work detecting and preventing malware by sandboxing it, picking it apart programmatically, and finding indicators to build new signatures to prevent future campaigns.
The importance of framing cybersecurity objectives in a high-level way and telling a story rather than just handing in a report that people might not read, as it can help prevent hackers from exfiltrating customer data or backdooring source code.
The song "All the Things" was created at Defcon one year after a friend suggested the phrase "drink all the booze, hack all the things." The artist, his producer, and a friend were playing parties when the song was created.
A musician recalls playing all over the US, Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Dubai, and Europe, and shares a story of a spontaneous set in Vegas with a chorus of "drink all the booze" and "hack all the things".