October 18, 2016
Your phone might be telling the world more than you think – and Solomon Sonya is listening. The US Air Force trainer, who speaks today at SecTor 2016, will be unveiling a tool that can find out where your phone has been. It can be put together using little more than a Raspberry Pi and […]
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October 7, 2016
Some of the music industry’s best hits came from B-sides. Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive was a B-track, as was the Red Hot Chilli Pepper’s most successful single ever, Soul To Squeeze. Vanilla Ice’s US #1 hit Ice Ice Baby was also a B-side, but we try not to talk about that. The point is […]
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September 29, 2016
Analyzing malware has always been a little like working in a digital virology lab. Researchers have to organize virus and worm samples, and keep them in a protected environment that won’t risk infecting anyone else. Then they must pick the viruses apart, often trying to outwit malware coders that may have built anti-analysis measures into […]
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September 17, 2016
Chris Pogue has a special interest in last year’s US Office of Personnel Management data security breach – his details were among those that were stolen. Pogue, chief information security officer at Nuix, spent several years in the US army teaching cyberwarfare. His was one of the 21.5 million government-employed individuals whose information ended up in the […]
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September 9, 2016
The sharing economy enables people to unlock the latent value in their time and property. Renting your apartment to someone for a weekend is good for the wallet. Letting someone stay in it for free as part of a worldwide peer-to-peer hospitality network is good for the soul. Underneath all of the warm fuzzies, though, […]
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August 31, 2016
A message from Brian Bourne, director and co-founder of Black Arts Illuminated. For every proposed talk that makes it into the SecTor conference, there are many others that don’t make the cut. We decided to share this blog post to help those people understand why their talk may have been declined. Hopefully, it will also […]
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August 29, 2016
What should Canada’s next cybersecurity strategy look like? The federal government is asking the country how it should the harden private and public sector against attack. Public services minister Ralph Goodale announced the three-month consultation in late August, after voicing the need for an update. Items on the government’s agenda include certification schemes for business […]
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August 22, 2016
Roger Grimes gets angry when stories like this one, about Microsoft’s UEFI security snafu, emerge – and not just because he works for Microsoft. “It’s so complicated to pull off, it’s going to be fixed with a patch, but they’re not patching Java, or Acrobat, or the things that are actually being exploited,” said Grimes, […]
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August 10, 2016
What have modern policing and cybersecurity got in common? Both sometimes suffer from a lack of perspective and alienate the public that they’re supposed to serve, according to Brendan O’Connor. As a lawyer working in the cybersecurity space, the SecTor 2016 speaker sees a lot of opportunity for both cops and security pros to improve their […]
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July 29, 2016
Why are most cybersecurity professionals men? Laura Payne has an idea or two to share, and she’ll be presenting them at SecTor this October. Payne, a senior information security advisor at BMO, will be addressing this topic in a keynote session at the conference. Gathered together with a panel of female cybersecurity experts, she’ll explore […]
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July 22, 2016
Chris Maddalena’s programming skills have come a long way in the past year. An information security consultant at eSentire, he relies heavily on other peoples’ open source ethical hacking tools for his practice, but recently decided to start developing his own. In his talk at SecTor this October, he’ll describe how creating your own set of […]
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