Dragos Ruiu just announced the speaker lineup for this year’s CanSecWest conference, being held next month in Vancouver Canada.
The Smart-Phones Nightmare – Sergio ’shadown’ Alvarez
Getting into the SMRAM: SMM Reloaded – Loíc Duflot
Network design for effective HTTP traffic filtering – Jeff "rfp"  Forristal, Zscaler
Ninja Scanning – Fyodor, Insecure.org
On Approaches and [...]

Another great event ran by Dragos and crew. I want to thank them for letting me cover the event on Twitter and the Infosec Events blog. My pictures are now up on flickr, and Ryo’s flickr page has a ton of pictures as well. Now lets celebrate another successful event by opening a champagne bottle [...]

Most Informative Talk: Intelguardians‘ cold memory forensics workshop. They leveraged the Princeton/Wind River/EFF research paper, and created two tools to extract passwords from a memory dump. The tools weren’t released at the conference, but they promise that it will be available soon. Two people from the original research (Jacob Appelbaum and William Paul) was also [...]

Most Informative Talk: Oded Horovitz’s talk on VMware. He showed off some upcoming features of the product, like VMSafe, security APIs, and session replay. With VMSafe and the security APIs, you will be able to run code inside the hypervisor! In one demo, he showed how VMSafe can detect malware that was modified to bypass [...]

I just finished the scapy dojo with Philippe, and it was awesome. We covered lots of ground for a one day class, but I wish we had at least another day for additional topics. Out of the course outline, we covered everything except the fuzzing and wifi sections.
One highlight of the class was [...]

CanSecWest is just around the corner, and TippingPoint just announced some additional incentives to the PWN to OWN contest. Like last year, TippingPoint is giving cash prizes away, but this year they are giving away at least $20,000!
For those that aren’t familiar with the contest, several machines are setup, with the latest OS patches [...]