September 25, 2014
Getting to know what’s going on is a primary goal of information security. There is even a name for it: intrusion detection. And there are tools to do this. That’s the easy part. Once you have decided you want intrusion detection or intrusion prevention, the implementation part becomes a lot more difficult. Well, if you […]
Tags: DeepSec, IDS, Infrastructure, Workshop
Posted in Conference, Internet, Training
September 24, 2014
Backdoors are devious. Usually you have to look for them since someone has hidden or „forgotten“ them. Plus backdoors are very fashionable these days. You should definitely get one or more. Software is (very) easy to inspect for any rear entrances. Even if you don’t have access to the source code, you can deconstruct the […]
Tags: DeepSec, Espionage, Hardware, Research, Talk
Posted in Conference, High Entropy
September 21, 2014
If you haven’t been at 44CON last week, you missed a lot of good presentations. Plus you haven’t been around great speakers, an excellent crew, “gin o’clock” each day, wonderful audience, and great coffee from ANTIPØDE (where you should go when in London and in desperate need of good coffee). Everyone occasionally using wireless connections […]
Tags: 44CON, Hacking, Information, InfoSec
Posted in High Entropy, Security, Stories
September 17, 2014
Filtering inbound and outbound data is most certainly a part of your information security infrastructure. A prominent component are anti-virus content filters. Your desktop clients probably have one. Your emails will be first read by these filters. While techniques like this have been around for a long time, they regularly draw criticism. According to some […]
Tags: DeepSec, Defence, Malware, Talk
Posted in Conference
September 16, 2014
Modern environments feature a lot of platforms that can execute code by a variety of frameworks. There are UNIX® shells, lots of interpreted languages, macros of all kinds (Office applications or otherwise), and there is the Microsoft Windows PowerShell. Once you find a client, you usually will find a suitable scripting engine. This is very […]
Tags: DeepSec, Hacking, PenTest, Talk
Posted in Conference
September 12, 2014
The „Cloud“ technology has been in the news recently. No matter if you use „The Cloud™“ or any other technology for outsourcing data, processes and computing, you probably don’t want to forget about trust issues. Scattering all your documents across the Internet doesn’t require a „Cloud“ provider (you only need to click on that email […]
Tags: Cloud, DeepSec, Infrastructure, Talk
Posted in Conference
September 11, 2014
Do you get a lot of email? Do customers and business partners send you documents? Do you talk to people on the phone? Then you might be interested in an assessment of your vulnerability by social interactions. We are proud to host a presentation by Enrico Frumento of CEFRIEL covering this topic. As anyone probably […]
Tags: DeepSec, Defence, Research, Social, Talk
Posted in Conference
September 10, 2014
All good defences start with some good ideas. The is also true for information security. DeepSec 2014 features a presentation by Vlado Luknar who will give you decent hints and a guideline on how to approach the dreaded risk assessment with readily available tools. We have kindly asked Vlado to give you a detailed teaser […]
Tags: DeepSec, Risk, Talk, Tool
Posted in Conference
September 9, 2014
In case you haven’t noticed, the Internet is getting crowded. Next to having billions of people online, their devices are starting to follow. Information security experts can’t wait to see this happen. The future relies on the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 features a lot of improvements over IPv4. Since you cannot get complex […]
Tags: DeepSec, IPv6, Network, Talk
Posted in Conference, Internet
September 8, 2014
It’s good if your organisation has someone to take on information security. However it’s bad if you are the person in this position. Few are lucky enough to actually deal with improving information security. And some are caught in compliance fighting an uphill struggle against regulations and audits that have nothing to do with the […]
Tags: DeepSec, Talk
Posted in Conference
September 5, 2014
Microtrash37 of the EuroTrashSecurity podcast is out! We had a little talk with Chris about the schedule of DeepSec 2014 and what to expect. It’s a teaser for the blog articles about the talks and the trainings to come. We will describe more details on the blog, but you get a good overview what to […]
Tags: DeepSec, Podcast, Talk, Workshop
Posted in Conference