Running around

It's been a few crazy weeks for me. A few weeks ago I finally moved back to the wonderful Barcelona and trying to get settled in between trips to SOURCE Boston, BlackHat Amsterdam and now RSA in San Francisco... and next week is going to be HitB in Dubai where I'll be showing a new tool I've put together.

SOURCE Boston was a really interesting event, impeccably organized and with really great speakers and atmosphere. The technical level of the talks I could see was great, but missed the first day of conference because of tight scheduling. The materials will be coming out here. It was the first installment and sure hope will be the first of many, as it was really fun and enjoyable.

In BlackHat Amsterdam I was teaching the training with Pedram Amini. We got some good feedback and the course should be seeing some good updates in Las Vegas later in the summer.

BlackHat Vegas is nearly here...

I'll be there, teaching with Pedram a couple of rounds (weekend and week) of our training, Reverse Engineering on Windows: Application in Malicious Code Analysis. And then ranting together with Halvar in a turbo talk, 4 x 5

Pedram and myself "live on stage"

For the people more into cutting edge vulnerability research, Halvar will also be doing his Analyzing Software for Security Vulnerabilities. Feel free to grab any of us during the conference if you have any questions regarding BinDiff, BinNavi or VxClass.

And now that I am in the mood of advertising things, be sure to check OpenRCE's event calendar, you can even subscribe to the iCal feed. I try to keep it up to date with whatever events fall into my ears. If anyone knows of more, please let me know.

Training in BlackHat Tokyo

Pedram and I will be teaching our Reverse Engineering on Windows: Application in Malicious Code Analysis training in the Black Hat Japan Spring Training 2007 in Tokyo on May 28th and 29th.

The Annapurna circuit the Google Earth way

I was playing a bit with Google Earth this evening.

Threw in the GPS data I recorded during the trip, some pictures from the Google Earth community and got something like this.

Back from Nepal

What an incredible trip. Nepal and trekking along the Annapurna Circuit has been one of the greatest trips I've done.



The scenery, the people, the contrasts, the physical challenge and the remoteness made it quite an unforgettable experience. The pleasure of being away and cutting off from the daily routines, and everything in general, in such a drastic manner is something wonderful and truly difficult to value enough.




Some random highlights and impressions of the trip were:

• Kathmandu is chaotic beyond belief (I've been told Delhi is even worse, need to see it to believe it)


• Pokhara is an active "little" city, more pleasant than Kathmandu in my opinion, and very touristic (lots of treks start and end there)


• The mountains are big enough to make words have a hard time to describe them


• The Thorong La pass is hard but totally doable if reasonably fit (the views of the Mustang valley during the descent are nothing short of breathtaking)





• When they say it's windy in the stretch from Muktinath to Jomsom they really mean it!


• Tatopani (meaning "hot water" for its hot springs) is a gorgeous, lovely little town, one must stop there


• Catching the sunrise from Poon Hill is a must-do if one takes the path up to Gorepani


• Paragliding in Pokhara after the trek is a good way of wrapping up the trip

Also... on the way back we had a long layover, 13 hours, in Bahrain (Gulf Air were cool enough to give free hotel and transportation to Manama for the day!). The National Museum is fairly good, the exhibit on the Dilmun civilization is really enlightening.

There are other curious pieces, like some mathematics book from the 18th century, apparently covering some geometry concepts.



I've got hooked, now I must go back and do the Everest circuit trek...

Trekking in Nepal

In a matter of hours, after a probably short night sleep, I'll be traveling to Nepal, taking nearly a month off to go trekking in the Annapurna region. I'm sure it's going to be an incredible experience.

I'll be back on the beginning of May.

In New York

I'll be in New York from the 27th until the 2nd of February. If someone wants to meet and go out for a beer or something and talk about BinNavi, BinDiff and what we do at Sabre-Security or just rant... drop me a line to ero.carrera at gmail