EVENTS

IOActive will be attending this year’s DistrictCon, taking place January 24 – 25 in Washington, D.C. Let us know if you will be there! You can book a meeting in advance with our representatives use the page found here. ABOUT THE EVENT: “DistrictCon is a DC hacker con, focusing on hacking together and exchanging ideas over typical talk tracks. We want to grow the community through action and engagement that focuses on the greater good, while also enlightening policymakers. Topics will range…

IOActive Senior Security Consultant Maxine Filcher will be facilitating a training for the Minority Veterans of America group focusing on ‘Data Privacy in a Wireless World.’ The training takes place on January 27 and kicks off at 11:30am PT and will be held virtually. About the Training: “In this workshop we take a look at protecting ourselves and our data across a routinely ignored risk surface, wireless. From your home to class or the office, we are constantly broadcasting and interacting with multiple wireless technologies,…

IOActive Business Development Manager, Jessica Weiland, will present at this month’s Central Maryland Chapter – ISSA Monthly Meeting taking place on January 28 in Columbia, MD. Jessica’s talk, “Shut the Front Door: Forming Attack Profiles from Risky Hiring Practices,” focuses on the amount of information that is exposed when doing job postings while hiring. You can find the abstract to the talk below. ABSTRACT: This presentation is a novel way to look at the “open windows” that job listings provide to cyber criminals to profile a…

Join us for an evening of fun at this month’s hack::soho taking place 29 January, 6pm – 9pm GMT, set up to be a loose networking environment where cyber security professionals can chat, get some complimentary food & drink, and discuss rising global trends. This month’s hack::soho features a talk from IOActive Senior Security Consultant Simon Robin. The abstract of the talk, ‘Secure YAML, Insecure Clusters: Breaking Kubernetes Without Exploits,’ is below! hack::soho is a monthly event hosted at our London, UK office for the cybersecurity and hacking community to…

IOActive Senior Security Consultant Maxine Filcher will be running a workshop for the GrayHats Cybersecurity Club at the University of Washing Bothell’s Club Meeting, taking place February 6, in Bothell, WA. Maxine’s workshop will include discussions on the implications of security gaps with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), give members hands-on experience with tools, and dive into techniques that malicious actors use for exploitation across vectors. Maxine’s Bio:Maxine Filcher, UW Tacoma ’20 & ’22; GreyHat Group Tacoma VP ’19-’20, specializes in enterprise-scale wireless security, with deep expertise…