Cybersecurity

This week I was invited to speak at the Fifth Congress on Cybercrime, an event promoted by the São Paulo State Federation of Commerce (FECOMERCIO).

DEFCON21 – one of the world-largest conferences of hackers – was held in Las Vegas from 2nd-4th August.

Details from the USENIX Security Symposium (22nd edition), the conference known to be a leading forum to discuss and present novel and scientifically significant practical works in computer security.

Learn about the International Conference on Cyber Security, which brought together participants from government, the private sector and academia.

Campus Party is considered the world’s most important event in the areas of Innovation, Creativity, Science and Digital Entertainment.

World’s largest Hacker conference is taking place these days in Las Vegas, just after BlackHat.

Blackhat 2013 day 2 brought 0day, a sad remembrance of young researcher Barnaby Jack, and ICS/SCADA security vulnerabilities and review.

Learn about incidents related to the storage and transfer of corporate documents via a personal mailbox or a cloud service and the use of software for P2P file sharing.

Keynote NSA’s Alexander Provides Details, and Talks on Embedded and Low Level Attacks

Passwords13: a free to attend conference about passwords and authentication from attackers and defenders perspective.

According to surveys conducted in Europe and the United States, company employees spend up to 30% of their working hours on private affairs.

Portable applications, stored on removable media, are very convenient. However, such applications can also pose a threat to information security.

Fostering knowledge exchange among different generations of security researchers is maybe one of the best traits of a good security conference. Judging by its attendance, NoSuchCon can easily claim to be one of these.

The Counter eCrime Operations Summit VII (CeCOS VII) engages questions of operational challenges and the development of common resources for the first responders and forensic professionals who protect consumers and enterprises from the electronic-crime threat every day.

The annual event, organized by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is this time held in Buenos Aires (Argentina).

The experience of many information security officers shows that only a small portion of security incidents take place as a result of meticulously planned and sophisticated targeted attacks, while most incidents are due to a lack of effective security and control measures.