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...
Members of the European Parliament have demanded to know what lawmakers intend to do about the conflict between the European Union's Data Protection Directive and the U.S. Patriot Act. The issue has been raised following Microsoft's admission last week that it may have to hand over...
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...
Facebook has released specifications for their data center infrastructure as an open hardware project. They specifications include detailed electrical and mechanical data for everything from the server motherboards to the data center power distribution system. The specifications are licensed under a the Open Web Foundation Agreement. Via: Slashdot...
RSA, the Security Division of EMC Corp., said Thursday that information related to its SecurID two-factor authentication products was stolen in an "extremely sophisticated cyberattack" against the company. In an open letter to customers posted on the company's website, Art Coviello, RSA executive chairman, said RSA recently...