We’re delighted to announce the first speakers of next year’s
Troopers edition. Looks like it’s going to be a great
event again ;-).
Here we go:
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Ravishankar Borgaonkar & Kevin Redon: Femtocell: Femtostep to the Holy Grail
(Attacks & Research Track)
Abstract: Femtocells are now being rolled out across the world to enhance third
generation (3G) coverage and to provide assurance of always best connectivity in
the 3G telecommunication networks. It acts as an access point that securely
connect standard mobile handset to the mobile network operator’s core network
using an existing wired broadband connection.
… which was, as in the years before, an awesome event.
Great talks, great people, great fun.
Bruce Potter gave a keynote
which did exactly what a good keynote should do: make the audience think and
entertain it at the same time.
[Those readers familiar with ERNW’s security model will certainly notice that
we do not necessarily agree with everything he said. We still think that – in
particular in times where infosec resources are scarce anyway – putting your
bets on prevention provides a better cost/[security] benefit ratio than going
for extensive detection capabilities.
Fix the doors first, then think about installing a CCTV.
Still, human nature tends to exchange “good security with low visibility” for
“poor security with potentially good visibility” quite easily… as can be noted
every day in many environments.]
Just a short notice today on some recent presentations from our team. As some of
you might know we regularly give talks at conferences. This not only encompasses
highly sophisticated security events like Black Hat or
Troopers. Additionally – on our mission for a safer
world – we try to spread the (security) word at various industry events that are
usually focused on some aspect of the large and ramified IT world, not
necessarily equipped with a strong focus on information security.
A number of such events took place in the last few weeks and here’s some links
on presentations given there. While not being as technically deep as the average
Black Hat or Troopers attendee might expect, we still
hope that one or another valued reader finds them useful (pls note that some
parts are in German).
Yesterday we made our way to Vienna to participate and contribute to NinjaCon
(formerly known as PlumberCon, before Nintendo Inc. claimed their rights ;)).
After our arrival Oliver held a five hour workshop on
Penetration Testing and did the finishing
touches on his slides about
‘Attacking Cisco Enterprise WLANs‘, which
he will deliver later today together with Daniel. And last but not least Daniel
will be the Packet Master of PacketWars™ Vienna taking place in the evening.
I’m happy to announce that the presentations and a majority of the videos from
TROOPERS10 are finally available to you.
You’ll find the slides at the conference’s website
troopers.de, more precisely
here. Plenty of videos
were uploaded and are now ready for streaming at
viddler.com/TROOPERS. Enjoy!
Please excuse the long waiting time – this is a big point on our ‘improvements
for upcoming events’ list. Talking about improvements: If you have any
suggestions, criticism or even praise for past or upcoming events – let us know
in the comment section.
