Wim Remes, Managing Consultant for IOActive, to present at DeepSec 2013
PRESENTER: Wim Remes, Managing Consultant for IOActive PRESENTATION: Cultural Learning Of China To Make Benefit Glorious Profession Of Infosec CONFERENCE: DeepSec 2013 LOCATION: The Imperial Riding School Vienna, Austria DATE & TIME: Thursday November 21, 2013 at 9:10am INFO: https://deepsec.net/index.html The current debate about China’s role in international hacking incidents and corporate espionage has largely been framed in a US-centric narrative. This fails to account for the fact that China was familiar with innovation, economic, and societal (im)balances long before Christopher Columbus accidentally landed in the…
Eireann Leverett, Senior Security Consultant for IOActive, to present at GreHack 2013
PRESENTER: Eireann Leverett, Senior Security Consultant for IOActive PRESENTATION: Vulnerability Inheritance in Programmable Logic Controllers CONFERENCE: GreHack 2013 LOCATION: Amphi Vaujany Grenoble, France DATE & TIME: Friday November 15, 2013 at 12:35pm INFO: http://grehack.org/en/ Eireann Leverett will deliver an academic paper that illustrates how over 200 types of PLCs and EWSs share a common runtime library. This commonality makes them susceptible to authentication bypass vulnerabilities discovered by Reid Wightman, Senior Security Consultant at IOActive, over a year ago. Using this flaw, an unauthenticated attacker could upload…
Lucas Apa, Security Researcher for IOActive, and Carlos Penagos, Senior Security Researcher for IOActive, to present at PacSec 2013 Conference
PRESENTER: Lucas Apa, Security Researcher for IOActive and Carlos Penagos, Senior Security Researcher for IOActive PRESENTATION: Compromising Industrial Facilities From 40 Miles Away CONFERENCE: PacSec 2013 Conference LOCATION: Aoyama Diamond Hall, Tokyo Japan DATE & TIME: Wednesday November 13, 2013 at 10:50am INFO: http://pacsec.jp/index.html Lucas Apa and Carlos Penagos uncovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in wireless technologies that are extensively used in the ICS world. Recently, they conducted a security assessment of the next generation deep-sea oil platforms and discovered that a carefully developed security architecture and its careful implementation…
Sofiane Talmat, Senior Security Consultant for IOActive, and Andy Saunders, Managing Consultant for IOActive, to present at Kraft IS 2013
PRESENTERS: Sofiane Talmat, Senior Security Consultant and Andy Saunders, Managing Consultant for IOActive PRESENTATION: Meters: The Risk of Being Smart CONFERENCE: Kraft IS 2013 LOCATION: Thon Hotel Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, Norway DATE & TIME: Thursday November 14, 2013 at 2:45pm INFO: http://norsis.no/nyheter/2013-10-07-kraftis.html Utility companies across the globe are replacing existing meters with smart meters and promoting them as tools to manage ever-increasing energy bills. Unfortunately, the increased functionality of these smart devices makes them more vulnerable to attack. IOActive’s presenters will trace the evolution of the smart meter and…
Chris Valasek, Director of Security Intelligence for IOActive, and Charlie Miller, Security Researcher for Twitter, to present at COUNTERMEASURE 2013
PRESENTERS: Chris Valasek, Director of Security Intelligence for IOActive and Charlie Miller, Security Researcher for Twitter. PRESENTATION: Adventures in Automotive Networks and Control Units CONFERENCE: COUNTERMEASURE 2013 LOCATION: Ottawa Convention Centre, Ottawa, Canada DATE & TIME: Thursday November 7, 2013 at 3:45pm The original automotive computers, or Electronic Control Units (ECU), were designed and introduced to improve fuel efficiency and reduce tail pipe emissions in the 1970s. They evolved into integral parts of in-car entertainment, safety controls, and enhanced automotive functionality. This presentation examines some of the ECU controls…
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