AI
Forget Clippy. The new wave of AI isn’t here to write your emails—it’s here to pop boxes, trace infrastructure, and surface signal from noise. This talk explores how LLM-based assistants with integrated tooling (think Shodan, Censys, nmap, OSINT, and more) are changing the game for hackers, researchers, and defenders alike. We’ll walk through how to build, wield, and bend these assistants to your workflow—whether you’re mapping an attack surface, writing detection rules, or just trying to keep up with the flood of vulnerabilities. It’s not about automation for automation’s sake. It’s about putting a Sidekick in your shell—one that speaks your language, understands your tools, and helps you move faster without cutting corners.
Mark Milhouse (amne51ac) is a Marine Corps Veteran and ex-Amazon engineer with a broad technical background from investigating digital privacy and cybersecurity class action cases at Edelson PC to serving as Chief Technology Officer at 160 Driving Academy and Truckers Network. Mark has spoken previously at Hackers On Planet Earth, DerbyCon and TEDxIIT, and won the Tin Foil Hat competition at DEF CON last year as well as the Casino Heist at Cypher Con in Milwaukee this year. He is currently a Principal Software Architect, and in the market to adopt a dog!
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