Hacker Halted Redux
September 28, 2009
I had a blast at Hacker Halted last week, and I did a talk that I was incredibly excited about. It was the first time I was going to talk about some of the new research I’ve done and, while I didn’t plan to give out a huge number of details on the methods, I hoped that the talk was going to be well received.
Well, I’m sure that it would have been, had it actually finished. Because I didn’t read the program nearly closely enough, and I prepared a normal 80 minute talk, only to realize that my speaking slot was 45 minutes.
So, I only got about 1/2 way through my slides, and much of the meat was lost. A couple of audience members talked to me afterwards and seemed a bit disappointed, so I promised I’d provide the talk another way.
I do like to keep promises. So I sat down at my computer this morning and recorded the slides and the audio. The entirety of the talk that the audience would have seen is below.
Let me know your thoughts and opinions and ask questions if you have them (since I didn’t get to take audience questions at the conference, either).
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Recap: The Hope Symposium
September 23, 2009
This past weekend, I had the privilege of speaking at The Hope Symposium. It was a small conference put on by my friends over at NLP Canada.
I was actually lucky enough to speak twice at the conference – I was the opening speaker and the final speaker before Chris and Linda closed out the conference.
More (including video of my talks) in the coming days, but for now, just a picture of me, Chris Ron Verreggen of RapidSuccessCoach.com.
Social Engineering Abounds
September 16, 2009
I’ve been ranting for years that we need more exposure about the threat that is Social Engineering. As time goes on, we move more toward a model where the human is the prime exploit target.
I just found out that some other people are thinking the same way. Today launches the first Social Engineering Framework. I’ve recently become a contributor, as have many incredible names in this industry.
I expect great things from that crew and hope to be part of some of them. Also, keep your eyes out for new developments here – I’ve been head-down working on some SE-related projects that all will hit in Q3 and Q4.