Resources Cyberspectrum: Bay Area Software Defined Radio #1 (Nov 2014) HD – youtube.com A video of DSP topics relevant to implementation of simple software-defined radios. Focuses on visual explanations of fundamental manipulations of digital signals, including analytic signals, frequency shifting, sampling rates, filtering, and the discrete Fourier transform. Tools HDD firmware tools – github.com This repository contains [...]
Resources SHack3rcon 5 Videos – irongeek.com Here are the videos from Hack3rcon^5. You can watch and download the videos from here. Let's Play NSA! The Hackers Open-Sourcing Top Secret Spy Tools – motherboard.vice.com Last August, at Defcon, the hacker conference in Las Vegas, engineer and security researcher named Michael Ossmann stood on the stage of a lecture [...]
Events Related Amazon Fire Phone, iPhone, Nexus 5, Samsung S5 All Popped At Mobile Pwn2Own – forbes.com A slew of the world’s most popular smartphones have been prized open at the Mobile Pwn2Own hacking contest in Tokyo, Japan this week. Hosted by the HP Zero Day Initiative, the competition offered up big cash prizes for those [...]
Resources Secure messaging scorecard – eff.org Many companies offer “secure messaging” products—but are these systems actually secure? EFF decided to find out, in the first phase of a new EFF Campaign for Secure & Usable Crypto. Google Study: Email Users 36 Times More Likely To Get Scammed If Friends’ Accounts Get Hacked – consumerist.com So you think [...]
Events Related Inside BlackHat Europe 2014 – blog.fortinet.com The conference started with Adi Shamir's keynote. Axelle Apvrille was really happy to listen to such a brilliant mind like Adi Shamir. In this blog post, Axelle has given his personal opinion on some of the best talks he attended. Resources Social-Engineer, Inc. Releases Annual Report on DEF [...]
Here are information security events in North America this month: 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security : November 3 to 7 in Scottsdale, AZ,USA 7th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS-2014) : November 3 to 5 in Montréal, Canada CISO Executive Summit Boston : November 3 in [...]
Events Related Hack.lu 2014 Wrap-Up Day #1 – blog.rootshell.be After attending BlackHat last week in Amsterdam, Xavier is now in Luxembourg until Friday to attend the 10th edition of Hack.lu. here is Xavier’s wrap-up for the first day. As usual, the first day started via a first bunch of workshops. Hack.lu 2014 Wrap-Up Day #2 – blog.rootshell.be [...]
Events Related BlackHat Europe 2014 Wrap-Up Day #1 – blog.rootshell.be BlackHat is back in Amsterdam and here is Xavier's wrap-up for the first day. The day started with the Adi Shamir’s keynote and some crypto. BlackHat Europe 2014 Wrap-Up Day #2 – blog.rootshell.be Here is Xavier's small wrap-up for the second BlackHat day. His first choice was [...]
Resources nullcon Goa 2014: Pentesting Proprietary RF Communications by Justin Searle – youtube.com This talk will demonstrate practical techniques to identify, assess, and exploit a subclass of control systems found in your companies that use proprietary RF communications, such as fire alarms, proximity cards, automotive security gates, car alarms, conference rooms, and building automation systems. The [...]
Resources SLouisville Infosec 2014 Videos – irongeek.com Here are the videos from the Louisville Infosec 2014 conference. You can download the videos from here. Derbycon 2014 Videos – irongeek.com These are the videos of the presentations from Derbycon 2014. You can watch and download the videos from here. Shellshocker! – Episode 029a – in-security.org You might have head [...]