After a brief hiatus, BSides Vancouver has risen from the ashes and back in full force in 2017 to deliver Vancouver's highest calibre grassroots Cyber Security conference. This year, the conference features: 2 Full Days of Knowledge Sharing and Networking 3 Speaking Tracks 25 Speakers CTF ...
Initial work is complete on the a the first version of the HAR (HTTP Archive) File eXtractor. It's available for download at https://github.com/RuanMuller/harx/ Description HAR eXtractor. This utility was developed to assist security analysts working with HTTP Archive (HAR) files to list and extract the contained objects. More information about the HTTP...
The Mainland Advanced Research Society (MARS) is starting a new security focused knowledge sharing event. Join me on May 19 with panelists Jake King (HootSuite), Ryan Wilson (Medeo / Kubera), Kris Constable (ProvaSecTec / NXT Level You) and our moderator, Alex Dow (MARS / AJS Networks) What are...
On November 24, the Vancouver Enterprise Forum is hosting a panel discussion on Cyber Crime + eMoney Laundering. Join me and panelists Mark Fenton (Tech Crimes Unit VPD / Cyber Training International), Patrick Neal (Crime and Intelligence Lab Manager, BCIT), Dominic Vogel (Independent Cyber Security Contractor), Edward...
Security BSides Vancouver 2014 is fast approaching being scheduled for March 10/11 this year. Also have just been provided confirmation that I will be hosting a Build and Fly Your Own Drone workshop this year. The drone is based on as many Open Source hardware and...
Doing a small fire session at Security BSides Vancouver 2013 dissecting the time frame of events surrounding the detection, analysis, response and lessons learned from a malware assisted financial crime targeting a large company. If you are attending, come stop by and have a quick...
pfSense has changed considerably since the first generation of the fantastic FreeBSD based firewall platform and with that, 3rd party utilities such as glTail require updated configs and log parsers to restore the ability to visualize pfSense 2 firewall logs since the logging system in...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published two new documents on cloud computing: the first edition of a cloud computing standards roadmap and a cloud computing reference architecture and taxonomy. Together, the documents provide guidance to help understand cloud computing standards and categories...
MIT researchers have devised a protocol to flummox man-in-the-middle attacks against wireless networks. The all-software solution lets wireless radios automatically pair without the use of passwords and without relying on out-of-band techniques such as infrared or video channels. Dubbed Tamper-evident pairing, or TEP, the technique is...
RSA Security will replace virtually every one of the 40 million SecurID tokens currently in use as a result of the hacking attack the company disclosed back in March. The EMC subsidiary issued a letter to customers acknowledging that SecurID failed to protect defense contractor...