Conference: B-Side Title: Pentultimate Hack – Manipulating Layers 8 & 9 of the OSI Model (Management & Budget) Speaker: Rafal Los (aka Wh1t3Rabbit) This talk was well prepared but not as dynamic and entertaining as…
Conference: B-Sides Title: Transparent Botnet Command and Control for Smartphones over SMS Speaker: Georgia Weidman The title actually says most of it. SMS is used because it is easy to conceal the botnet. Malware on…
Conference: B-Sides Title: How to Hide Your Pr0n Speaker: Orlando Barrera II and Josh Sokol Pr0n being a fanciful distortion of “porn”… itself a fanciful name for any data you value and might want to…
Conference: B-Sides Las Vegas Title: Cultural Cues from High Risk Professions Speaker: Gal Shpantzer In this B-Sides LV talk,Gal Shpantzer employed the Swiss cheese model of catastrophe as a parallel for the information security industry. The model was originally developed by James…
Conference: B-Sides Title: History of Physical Security Speaker: Schuyler Towne This was a great entertaining talk. This guy enters my pantheon along with Joseph McCray (conspicuous in his absence this year) as a must-attend for…
Conference: B-Sides Title: Boyd’s OODA and General Predator/Prey Theory Speaker: Tim Keanini The NTO team had a great time at Black Hat, B-Sides and Defcon this year. This blog post is the first in a…
After 5 years, I have finally added a contributing writer to the blog. MJ Power (aka Mike Morton) is a good friend and fellow founder of NTO. Mr. Power and I created NTOSpider together, with…
Blackhat: Already kicked off and there are a number of good talks this year. I recommend the picks from Veracode for those going to Blackhat. As usual its unlikely that I will be attending any…