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November 23, 2016 by Niki Vonderwell

CCS’16 – Day 2 – 25th October 2016

Hello again.

Andrei Costin (at http://firmware.re project) is here, and this is the second post from a series of guest postings courtesy of ERNW (thanks Niki and Enno!).

Few days ago, the first CCS’16 summarization post went online: https://insinuator.net/2016/11/introduction-ccs16-day-1-24th-october-2016/

It summarized five presentations of the 6th Annual Workshop on Security and Privacy in Smartphones (SPSM’16). In short, it contained presentations on: over-the-top and phone number abuse, smartphone fingerprinting, apps privacy increase and protection/security, and apps privacy ranking. Continue reading “CCS’16 – Day 2 – 25th October 2016”

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November 21, 2016 by Niki Vonderwell

Introduction & CCS’16 – Day 1 – 24th October 2016

I am Andrei Costin (at http://firmware.re project), and this is the first post from a series of guest postings courtesy of ERNW.

Between 24th and 28th October, I had the pleasure and the great opportunity to attend ACM CCS 2016 in Vienna, Austria, where I also presented at the TrustED’16 workshop my paper titled “Security of CCTV and Video Surveillance Systems: Threats, Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Mitigations”.

My attendance throughout the entire ACM CCS 2016 week and my presentation at TrustED was possible thanks to generous support from Enno Rey and ERNW, and I thank them again for this opportunity!

In these guest postings I am going to summarize the talks I have attended, and will try to make you interested in exploring more on each of the mentioned papers. Continue reading “Introduction & CCS’16 – Day 1 – 24th October 2016”