Mike “Dop” Dopheide: Okay, so we get root access, we’re playing around and everything’s great and no one really cares. But we got lazy; they upgrade system – and we lost all of our access. And I can’t remember why we decided we needed to get it back, but I remember we were in one […]
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Kevin Nassery: The NeXT stuff was really cool for me to see because it was probably the first UNIX system I had shell on, and this was the first time we were exposed to UNIX. And it was kind of eccentric and cool. Here I put up just a picture side by side of the […]
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Hi! I’m Kevin Nassery; this is Mike “Dop” Dopheide. We’ve been friends for about 15 years, we actually work together now; and we are going to kind of talk about how Dop and I got to know each other a little bit. We grew up in the same town – Quincy, Illinois. We have a […]
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This talk is “Not-So-Limited Warranty: Target Attacks on Warranties for Fun and Profit.” This talk is for people who like unconventional forms of social engineering, who want to learn more about serial numbers and how they’re used to protect products, and people who enjoy finding holes, of course. This isn’t for anyone who works for/with […]
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Now we are going to talk about asymmetrical encryption. We were talking about symmetrical encryption, where we’re basically just using a password to protect a file. And that’s really great if Alice and Bob know the password and if they can share it. What if Alice and Bob have never met? They’ve never met, somehow […]
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Hi, my name is Dru Streicher, and I am going to talk about encryption today. A little bit about me, I am a Systems Administrator for Hurricane Labs, we’re Cleveland based network security company. I am a hardware hacker and a chip musician, and I also collect arcane technology. And I also collect vinyl records. […]
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A Proposal We’re done with the complaining. Now I’m going to spend a couple of minutes trying to talk about what you might be able to do about this, and what I think is going to happen to our industry over the next couple of years. Instead of looking at this as a sum of […]
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Data Center Security – an Incoherent Mess When I started thinking about a data center I had to try and find some lines to slice it along to try and make sense to the world. Here’s how I did it. I started thinking about the data center in 3 tiers: the Network, where the security […]
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Hi there! My name is Brian Chess. I’m Chief Scientist at Fortify Software. We were acquired by HP at the end of last year, and we’re excited to join the HP family. Today I’m talking about software security in the big picture. I tell you this is a real departure for me; I kind of […]
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Implementing process improvements Another area to focus on for security metrics would be to sort of look around and figure out what’s broken and what needs fixing. A few areas that I’ve broken this down into are the process area and the technology area. And I actually think that in some cases process improvements are […]
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