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BT SnoopCon

I 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

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NANOG64

I 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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ERNW @PHDays V in Moscow

Здравствуйте Insinuator Followers,

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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Advanced Security Evaluation of Network Protocols

Hi,

I’m back from London where I gave a talk about security evaluation of proprietary network protocols. I had a great time at InfoSecurity Intelligent Defence and BSides London, many thanks for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to speak to so much nice people.

Find the abstract and the download link to the slides after the break.

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Blog 5: Beyond the Thunderdome:
A Review of TROOPERS15

Troopers13_101     The final blog in our series “Beyond the Thunderdome: A Review of TROOPERS15” focuses Exploitation & Attacking. With the last of this series we hope we you are already fired up and inspired for what lays a head during our upcoming TROOPERS16 (March 14-18, 2016)! Can’t wait to see you there!

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ERNW@HAXPO/HITB 2015

Last week we enjoyed quite a wonderful HAXPO exhibition and HITB conference in Amsterdam. A number of great talks could be heard at the main HITB conference such as “Bootkit via SMS: 4G Access Level Security Assessment” or “Stegosploit: Hacking with Pictures“. And not only that: there were also several engaging hands-on workshops.

Apart from the main conference, there was the HAXPO – a hacker exhibition. At this exhibition you could connect with people from different companies, get a lot of merchandise, and also listen to several briefings on security and its philosophy. Fortunately, we had the pleasure to present two of these briefings and maybe you tested your web application skills at the ERNW booth.

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