conferences

Day-Con, Dayton Ohio’s annual hacker conference, celebrated its 7th year last month with a completely re-imagined format: limited seating, invitation only, and …

You can throw lots of time and money at scanning your systems for unknown malware, but the reality is that you will only identify a small portion of the bad stuff. Changing …

Most organizations already have a defense model in place that is meant to protect them from attacks, but the problem is that many use an outdated one. But the threat landscape …

Does the Internet of Things scare you? It probably should. This DerbyCon video discusses why embedded device security is laughably bad, handling vendor notification, and …

In the maritime business, Automated Identification Systems (AIS) are a big deal. They supplement information received by the marine radar system, are used for a wide variety …

In this DerbyCon video, John Strand will demonstrate the Active Defense Harbinger Distribution, a DARPA funded, free Active Defense virtual machine. He will debunk many of the …

This video from DerbyCon discusses the basics of the AV evasion problem, what techniques work, which ones don’t and why. The talk has a particular focus on AV evasion as …

Microsoft’s SmartScreen application control feature, introduced with Internet Explorer 8 and lately ported to Windows 8 is a good addition to the new OS. It might …

Many security professionals have heard about Command & Control botnets, even more have been infected by them. Very few have had the opportunity to actually look inside …

There are a number of factors that make the IPv6 protocol suite interesting from a security standpoint. Firstly, being a new technology, technical personnel has much less …

There is a never ending stream of vulnerabilities in the mechanical and cyber systems that support the grid. So, why hasn’t there been any significant breach of the …

In this video from DerbyCon, Deral Heiland discusses the leveraging of SSIDs to inject various attacks into wireless devices, and management consoles. The type of injection …