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While searching for some photos for my last blog post on Thinkst Canary I found a couple more from our recent trip to Black Hat USA and DEF CON, which I consider worth sharing. Nothing too technical, just some visual impressions and comments from my side. Let’s get it on!
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Well, it’s a canary (these cute yellow songbirds some people have as a pet), and its main feature is that it dies before you will.
What the hack [pun intended]? And by the way… what has this to do with IT Security? Well… let me first quote Wikipedia on the birds:
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On Saturday last week I had the pleasure of delivering a workshop on IPv6 networking at the MRMCD2015 conference in Darmstadt, Germany. It goes without saying that the atmosphere was quite amicable; as usual at CCC-related events. What definitely impressed me the most was the diversity of the audience. There were around thirty attendees representing several age groups and all with seemingly differing backgrounds.
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Continue readingRecently I had the pleasure to attend the 24th USENIX Security Symposium and its co-located Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT) in Washington, D.C. The workshop has received quite some attention this year, 57 submissions of which 19 have been accepted, so that the organizers decided to double its length from one to two days. Continue reading “24th USENIX Security Symposium & WOOT Workshop”
Continue readingThis year’s Black Hat US saw a number of quite interesting talks in the context of Windows or Active Directory Security. For those of you too lazy to search for themselves 😉 and for our own Windows/AD Sec team (who couldn’t send anyone to Vegas due to heavy project load) I’ve compiled a little list of those.
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Continue readingAfter the first “IPv6 Hackers Meeting” held two years ago in Berlin, Fernando Gont kindly organized a similar event in Prague last week.
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Continue readingI had the honour to be invited to BT‘s SnoopCon, which is their annual internal conference for people involved with security at BT. There were several external and internal speakers and I was stunned by the quality of the talks and the collaborative atmosphere. Since this event is somewhat internal (even though I’m obviously allowed to talk about it), I won’t go into details, however there were two particularly great talks about military war games (which I personally enjoyed very much given my history in CTF contests) and PoS security.
I was presenting on our progress in the area of Connected Car security and presented the lessons we learned from our lab and the Troopers Connected Car Roundtable (which we will have again for TR16) and how they will influence our traditional pentesting approach when it comes to cars (slides can be found here).
Best,
Matthias
Continue readingFlo and I had the pleasure to present at the CSA Nordic Summit in Norway. Being in Oslo for the first time, we enjoyed the conference (small, familiar atmosphere) very much and want to thank Lars and Kai for putting together such a good event & having us there!
Our slides can be found here:
Tools of the Trade: Lessons Learned from the (C)ISO’s Desk
best,
Matthias
Continue readingI recently had the pleasure to join the 64th NANOG (North American Network Operators’ Group) meeting in San Francisco, which can be understood as one of the largest Internet engineering conferences at all. It takes place three times a year at different locations in North America.
What I personally like about NANOG is its strong collaborative and cooperative character. It is not about single persons and also not too much about spectacular projects but more about discussing technologies, ideas, challenges and numbers. Every talk has a comparatively large time slot reserved for discussion, which is often more than fully used. Discussion is typically actively focused and is more time-consuming (and even more relevant) than the talk itself. Which often is intended by the community. The climate of discussion is almost always impressively polite and constructive, even for controversially discussed topics.
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End of May eight ERNW members were travelling to Moscow (Russia) to visit the PHDays V conference. It was a very nice trip because we met a lot of gentle people, ate some great food and had quite some fun in this exciting and history-charged metropole, and we were able to get around using hands and feet (and Google translate ;-)).
The remainder of this post contains summaries of some of the most interesting talks at PHD V:
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