conferences
Google offers over $3M for breaking Chrome OS
With $3.14159 prize pool and a completely new target, Google’s Pwnium contest has become an even greater challenge for security researchers out to make a buck from their …
Hackers the movie: A retrospective
In this lecture, Don A. Bailey will take a look back at another great milestone in information security: the movie Hackers. In this retrospective from Hack in The Box 2012, …
Video: Practical exploitation of embedded systems
This video from Hack in The Box conference is an in-depth exploration of the reverse engineering and exploitation of embedded systems. It covers hardware by showing how to …
Video: History of the JavaScript security arsenal
In 2006 we had the first JavaScript port scanner. The same year we saw the incarnation of more advanced tools such as AttackAPI, Carnaval and Backframe. A year later we saw …
Video: Data mining a mountain of vulnerabilities
Every day, software developers around the world, from Bangalore to Silicon Valley, churn out millions of lines of insecure code. Veracode used static binary analysis on …
What makes a good information security professional?
Information security is a very competitive industry, and one of the very few that kept doing fine even during the recession. It’s also a dynamic field that promises a …
Video: Hacking Huawei VRP
Huawei routers are no longer devices only seen in China. Entire countries run their Internet infrastructure exclusively on these products and established tier 1 ISPs make …
Huge GPU cluster makes password hacking a breeze
Cracking encrypted passwords is getting increasingly easier as researchers come up with new ways of harnessing CPU, GPU and cloud power to perform the task. The latest of the …
(IN)SECURE Magazine issue 36 released
(IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication discussing some of the hottest information security topics. Issue 36 has been released today. Table of contents: …
Video: Incident response and cloud computing
Moving into a cloud environment can bring many advantages to organizations in terms of flexibility, scalability and other benefits. However, it also brings a number of …
IRISSCERT warns Irish businesses on key cybercrime threats
IRISSCERT is to hold its fourth annual cybercrime conference this coming Thursday the 22nd of November where they will highlight key trends and issues that businesses in …
Life cycle and detection of an exploit kit
As the process of owning systems and dragging them into botnets becomes ever more commercialized, exploit kits have emerged as a favorite of attackers. Their point-click-own …