2809, 2015

DeepSec 2015: The Early Bird Gets the Luxury Bed, Swimming Pool and a Royal Breakfast

Sanna/ September 28, 2015/ Administrivia, Conference, Veranstaltung

DeepSec 2015 is drawing nearer and tickets sell like hot cakes! Just an insider tip for all the smart birds out there: Get a DeepSec ticket for Early Birds and, while you’re at it book a room at our conference hotel straightaway – before they’re sold out! We have arranged a very competitive conference rate for you (including the breakfast, swimming pool & leisure aerea). Free Internet will be provided in the conference area. For comparison, direct booking rates are more expensive, and typically don’t include breakfast or free Wi-Fi. About the Hotel The Imperial Riding School Renaissance Vienna Hotel is located in a historical building, the former military horse riding school, which was built and used by Emperor Franz Josef I in 1850. Today this exquisite neo-classical hotel features 339 Deluxe Rooms, a Club Lounge, a conference centre, bar, library,

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0809, 2015

Social Engineering: Cold Call Warning (EHS, EHM)

René Pfeiffer/ September 8, 2015/ Administrivia, Odd

While we have a workshop on social engineering for you at DeepSec 2015, we do not do any trainings or exercises before the DeepSec event starts. A speaker alerted us that he got a cold call from a company offering cheap rates for accommodation. In case you have received any call from Exhibition Housing Management (EHM) and Exhibitors Housing Services (EHS), you can safely hang up. Both organisations have been used for scams in the past. Apparently they are alive and kicking. We thank EHS/EHM for providing exercise material and contact data for use during the conference.

0709, 2015

DeepSec 2015 Schedule is almost stable & BSidesVienna CfP Deadline

René Pfeiffer/ September 7, 2015/ Administrivia, Conference

The schedule of DeepSec 2015 is almost done. We’re still reviewing submissions and talk to authors. We are confident to call the schedule stable soon. Until this happens, we will describe the presentations and trainings with a little more detail here. Take a good look, but don’t wait too long before booking a ticket. The workshops can only accommodate a limited amount of attendees. Don’t miss the opportunity! We also like to point out that the Call for Papers for the BSidesVienna event is ending on 15th September 2015! If you have interesting content, please submit!

1606, 2015

DeepSec Ticket Registration: Early Worm gets to 0wn the Network

René Pfeiffer/ June 16, 2015/ Administrivia, Conference

Did you feed the cat? Did you lock the door? Did you switch off the Internet while on vacation? Did you wrap your wallet in tin foil? Did you buy this ticket to this conference you want to attend in November? How was it called? We have a foolproof way to get over this constant feeling that you forgot something. Go to our registration web site, book a ticket to DeepSec 2015, print it out, and write all the important things you have to remember on the back! Your laundry list of All Teh Important Things™ will last until November 2015. After that you will come up with a new way to help you. Looking forward to see you!

1405, 2015

Dates for DeepSec, DeepINTEL and BSidesVienna 2015

René Pfeiffer/ May 14, 2015/ Administrivia

We have been quieter than usual. We did a lot of preparations for the upcoming DeepSec events and were busy with research projects. In case you want to update your calendars, here are the dates to look out for. 17 to 20 November 2015 – DeepSec 2015 21 / 22 September 2015 – DeepINTEL 2015 21 November 2015 – BSidesVienna 2015 (still needs to be confirmed due to location) The Call for Papers for the DeepINTEL is open. Please contact us via (encrypted) email. The Calls for Papers for DeepSec and BSidesVienna will open soon.

0102, 2015

Reminder for the DeepINTEL Call for Papers

René Pfeiffer/ February 1, 2015/ Administrivia, Call for Papers

At the opening of DeepSec 2014 we announced the next DeepINTEL to be in Spring 2015. We have now finalised the date. DeepINTEL 2015 will take place on 11 / 12 May 2015, and it will be held in Vienna. The call for papers, already announced at the opening of last year’s DeepSec, is still open. We are looking for your submissions. Since we want to address security intelligence, we like to know everything about threats, risk assessment, metrics that give you an idea what you really see, forensics, and improvements on the way to detect and defend. We are definitely not interested in presentations about the cyber hype. We want to hear about real sabotage, real compromised systems; you know, reality and all that. Please make sure to send your ideas to cfp

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3101, 2015

DeepSec 2015 is coming – save the Date!

René Pfeiffer/ January 31, 2015/ Administrivia, Conference, Mission Statement

We are back from our break. We have been busy behind the scenes. The video recordings of DeepSec 2014 have been fully post-processed. The video files are currently on their way to our Vimeo account. The same goes for the many photographs that were taken by our photographer at the conference. We are preparing a selection to publish some impressions from the event. The dates for DeepSec 2015 and DeepINTEL 2015 have been finalised. DeepSec will be on 17 to 20 November 2015. DeepINTEL will be on 11 and 12 May 2015. The Call for Papers for DeepSec will be open soon. You can send your submissions for DeepINTEL by email to us (use either cfp at deepsec dot net or deepsec at deepsec dot net, the latter has a public key for encrypted

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2708, 2014

Preliminary Schedule of DeepSec 2014 published

René Pfeiffer/ August 27, 2014/ Administrivia, Conference

After weeks of hard work we have now the preliminary schedule of DeepSec 2014 online! We received over hundred submissions, and we had to navigate through a lot of publications, abstracts and references. We hope that you like the mixture of topics. We especially hope that you will find the offered trainings interesting. We still wait for content and corrections, so bear with us while the schedule takes its final form. Contrary to the past years we had a lot more to do in terms of completing information about submitted talks and trainings. We will tell you more about this in the upcoming blog articles (which we will announce on our Twitter account, so you don’t miss anything). Looking forward to see you in Vienna in November!

0108, 2014

Reviewing all your Submissions for DeepSec 2014

René Pfeiffer/ August 1, 2014/ Administrivia, Conference

The Call for Papers of DeepSec 2014 officially ended yesterday. We are currently reviewing all your submissions and will publish the preliminary schedule in the course of the next two weeks. As always, you did a very good job of finding things to break and to exploit. Our choice what to include in the schedule will be pretty hard! For those who still have bright ideas and no time to submit, please send us your abstracts as soon as possible! We will consider everything submitted so far first, but we will take your proposals into account. You just need to tell us.

1806, 2014

Ticket Registration is open

René Pfeiffer/ June 18, 2014/ Administrivia, Conference

The ticket registration for DeepSec 2014 „The Octave“ is open. You can either use the embedded version on the DeepSec web site or go directly to the ticketing site. The tickets are now available for the early bird tariff. Make sure you get your tickets as soon as possible. The later tariffs are more expensive. The current Call for Papers for DeepSec 2014 (and DeepINTEL 2015) is open, and we are looking for talks applying the power of knowledge to information security. Would you like to know more?

2901, 2014

DeepSec supports BSidesLondon – join the Rookie Track!

René Pfeiffer/ January 29, 2014/ Administrivia, Conference

The next BSidesLondon on 29 April will feature a Rookie Track again. We are glad to support the event with a ticket to DeepSec 2014 and two accommodations at our conference hotel for the best rookie delivering a presentation. We will also be present at BSidesLondon to get in touch with you (and to watch all talks of the Rookie Track, of course). Supporting young talents in information security has always been on our agenda. This is why we maintain a special category of talks, the U21 slots, for speakers under 21 years of age. Conferences are meant to exchange ideas and to present new perspectives. IT security is all about creativity and thinking outside the box. We have seen lots of promising content from young infosec researchers while encouraging them to submit to

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1212, 2013

Recordings and Slides from DeepSec 2013

René Pfeiffer/ December 12, 2013/ Administrivia, Conference

We are still dealing with the administrative tasks of DeepSec 2013, and we would like to give a short update on the publication of the slides. We have published all PDFs from the talks on our web server. Some speakers are still refining their documents. We will add them to the collection as soon as we get the files. There are audio and video recordings as well. Both are in post-production in order to ensure that the content is ok and everything works (we had some troubles with broken media files and storage containers in the past). We will put the audio recordings on our web site, too. The videos will be published on our Vimeo account soon. So, thank you for attending and speaking at DeepSec 2013! We hope to see you again

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2111, 2013

DeepINTEL 2014 – 3rd Security Intelligence Conference – Call for Papers is open!

René Pfeiffer/ November 21, 2013/ Administrivia, Call for Papers, Security Intelligence

Good news everyone, there will be a DeepINTEL conference in 2014, and we are looking for presentations! DeepINTEL 2014 will be held in September at the same location as in 2013. This single track two day event addresses mainly critical infrastructure, state organizations (administrative and law enforcement), accredited CERTs, finance organizations and trusted parties and organizations with a strong relation or partnership to the aforementioned. Due to the sensitive topics and the nature of the participants and speakers we will have a vetting process for participants. We’d like to know our audience, so that we all can talk freely and openly during the event. If you have questions on this, please contact us directly via deepsec@deepsec.net or the contact information given on our web site. Here is the Call for Papers for DeepINTEL 2014:

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1911, 2013

Last Changes to DeepSec 2013 Schedule

René Pfeiffer/ November 19, 2013/ Administrivia, Conference

Unfortunately we had to change our DeepSec 2013 schedule again. We promise that this will be the last changes before the conference starts (or a certain Murphy will get a talk slot). Marcus Ranum couldn’t make it to DeepSec. He apologised, and there really is no way he could have made it. We will invite him for DeepSec 2014, so you will have a good reason to come back next year. We are grateful for Aaron Kaplan from CERT.at who helps out with a presentation about better cryptography. In essence he talks about applied crypto hardening in order to help everyone deploying cryptography to improve the configuration and to Get Things Right™. We highly encourage you to attend his talk. For anyone interested in geopolitics: Wim Remes has kindly agreed to hold the keynote

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0511, 2013

No more Early Birds! No Regular! Get your DeepSec 2013 tickets now!

René Pfeiffer/ November 5, 2013/ Administrivia, Conference

If you like to attend DeepSec 2013, here’s your last chance. Space is getting crowded and the ticket sale enters the last minute tariff! For everyone interested in booking tickets for the workshops, now is the time! Don’t wait for others to fill your seat. You have been warned. In case you are still deciding, as always DeepSec will feature 0talks with tricks, code, vulnerabilities not seen before in public. Give yourself a premature Christmas treat, enjoy the conference, and leave for home with a dozen of 1337 presents information-wise. Totally beats the stuff Santa and the elves will bring you weeks later. We are looking forward to see you all at DeepSec 2013!