Week 13 In Review – 2017

Events Related

• TROOPERS Conference
  I’m in Heidelberg (Germany) for the 10th edition of the TROOPERS conference. The regular talks are scheduled on Wednesday and Thursday. The two first days are reserved for some trainings and a pre-conference event called “NGI” for “Next Generation Internet” focusing on two hot topics: IPv6 and IoT.
  • TROOPERS 2017 Day #1 Wrap-Up – blog.rootshell.be
  • TROOPERS 2017 Day #2 Wrap-Up – blog.rootshell.be

• Bloomcon 2017 Videos – www.irongeek.com
  These are the videos from the Bloomcon conference.

• BSides Indy 2017 Videos – www.irongeek.com
  These are the videos from the BSides Indy conference.

Resources

• Workshop and Presentation Slides from 2016 Q4 and 2017 Q1 – jumpespjump.blogspot.com

Tools

• Hashview – github.com
  Hashview is a tool for security professionals to help organize and automate the repetitious tasks related to password cracking. Hashview is a web application that manages hashcat (https://hashcat.net) commands.

Other News

• The New Laptop Ban Adds to Travelers’ Lack of Privacy and Security – www.eff.org
  It can be difficult to understand the intent behind anti-terrorist security rules on travel and at the border. As our board member Bruce Schneier has vividly described, much of it can appear to be merely “security theater”—steps intended to increase the feeling of security, while doing much less to actually achieve it.

• Senate Votes 50-48 To Allow ISPs To Sell Your Data – tomshardware.com
  Last fall, the FCC adopted a new privacy framework that would allow broadband consumers to have a much bigger say into what happens to their data as it passes through internet providers’ cables. The Senate has just voted to kill those protections, before they went into effect.