Cybersecurity

This years DefCon just ended and thousands of hackers, security professionals and other visitors heading back home.  This years schedule was again a good mix of talks, but which to attend is not that easy due to the mass of visitors.

This year’s BlackHat had a particularly wide range of topics. A more diverse range of topics means that more targets are under attack.

Blackhat2014 USA was held at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, after being held at Caesar’s for the past 15 years or so.

Summer, sand and sun may let you think about vacation at a beach, but not IT-Security interested people. Every year gatherings happen in Las Vegas attracting amateurs and professionals from around the globe – BlackHat and Defcon.

Today was the last day of the REcon 2014 conference where reverse engineers from all over the world meet and share their research.

Well, this event went under a renaming process and was formerly known as Hashdays, that took place in Lucerne. However, the steering team behind it still is the DEFCON Switzland group

As the Bitcoin 2014 conference is unwinding here in Amsterdam today, I have to admit that I am impressed by how the crypto-currency community is making rapid steps towards reaching maturity.

The twenty-fifth edition of Securmática was held in Madrid (Spain) on April 22, 23 and 24, 2014.

CODEGATE 2014 was held in COEX, Seoul Samsung from 2nd-3rd April.

The eighth annual Counter-eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS VIII) was held in Hong Kong on April 8th , 9th and 10th, 2014.

In the first week of April 2014 we were at “The Symposium on Security for Asia Network" (SyScan), a “geeky” single-track conference located in Singapore.

During the course of the last nine months in particular that trust in the Internet has been eroded and replaced with suspicion. How do we fix this?

Last week RootedCon celebrated its fifth birthday, gathering more than 1000 attendees. It is now firmly established as the most important security event in Spain.

From February 17th – 18th, 2014 we were at an event in Tokyo called “CODE BLUE”, a new international information security conference originating from Japan.

Suits and Spooks Collision DC 2014 wrapped up this week, and I had the opportunity to speak on two panels at the event.