MRMCD16 – diagnosis:critical

Sat, 03 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This year’s MRMCD16 had a topic that immediately let me submit a talk about medical device security: “diagnosis:critical”. Or to quote the official website:

Security issues in soft- and hardware have a low chance of healing, especially in medical IT.

Despite years of therapy using code reviews and programming guidelines, we still face huge amounts of vulnerable software that probably is in need of palliative treatment.

Security vulnerabilities caused by the invasion of IT in the medical sector are becoming real threats. From insulin pumps over analgesic pumps through to pace makers, more and more medical devices have been hacked already. This year’s motto “mrmcd2016 - diagnosis:critical” stands summarizing for the current state of the whole IT sector.

IPv6@MRMCD2015

Mon, 14 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Greetings everyone,

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.

The engagement of everyone was stunning. I questioned the most engaged attendees relentlessly and they fired back. I was being constantly bombarded with questions from enthusiastic geeks and they got, hopefully, what they deserved. This provided for a great learning environment, a friendly atmosphere and in my humble opinion really constructive dialogues. Well, one has to be interested and enthusiastic in order to spend three hours on a rainy Saturday evening discussing IPv6.

MRMCD on Insinuator.net - Bold Statements

MRMCD16 – diagnosis:critical

IPv6@MRMCD2015