Cybersecurity

Hello from the Hashdays conference, held in beautiful Lucerne in Switzerland.

The 5th Hacker Halted USA is now taking place in Miami under the slogan – Unravel the Enigma of Insecurity after hurricane Sandy passed Florida last weekend.

On the first day of the T2’12 conference in Helsinki, researchers discuss major problems with the security of Huawei’s VRP (Versatile Routing Platform) and pin-pad payment terminals.

The Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group Fall Meeting 2012 is being held in Denver, Colorado this year, organized by the DHS ICS-CERT.

I’m sending greetings from Canada, where I’m attending the 6th annual SecTor Security Education Conference in the very impressive city of Toronto.

Virus Bulletin 2012 is now over, the final chapter from this years conference needs to be written.

One of the things I don’t like from conferences is when there are two talks you want to attend scheduled at the same time. And this is what happened to me in VB2012.

Greetings from Dallas, Texas, where the anti-malware industry is meeting for the 22nd edition of Virus Bulletin.

The mobile Pwn2Own challenge at this year’s EuSecWest conference highlights the limitations of anti-exploit mitigations and confirms the need for a separation of work and play on mobile devices.

The Nordic Security Conference on Iceland is now over, and i must say that it was an amazing conference with several top notch presentations from both local and international researchers.

On 20th and 21st of August we had our 2nd Latin American Security Analyst Summit here in Quito, Ecuador.

Greetings from the IDC Security Roadshow in Johannesburg, South Africa!

Probably the two most important security conferences in the world are held in Las Vegas during the same week, gathering more than 15,000 attendees and offering dozens of talks.

Defcon 2012 marked its 20th anniversary with unexpected speakers, some pretty tough content, and the cultural dark magic that buzzes the conference every year.

BlackHat USA may have been wrapped up for the year but DEFCON is in full swing. I didn’t stay around for DEFCON though, which means I finally have some time to reflect on BlackHat.