Tag: Presentation

  • BSidesDC 2014 Keynote

    In October, 2014, I was asked to offer the conference keynote for BSidesDC. My first keynote of this kind, where it was the first talk of the conference, solo, and I had to cover bigger ideas and direction. I tried to give a bit of inspiration, where I saw the security industry, and cover a…

  • 112 Years of Vulnerabilities: How did we get here, knowing what we know?

    I gave a presentation on computer vulnerability history at BSides Delaware in November, 2013. Shortly after, I gave the presentation a couple times at Westchester Community College and the University of Pennsylvania, along with a brief version for the Invisible Harms conference at UPenn. The linked version below is the revised copy after my initial…

  • Our Straw House: Vulnerabilities

    I was asked by RVAsec to fill in as a last minute replacement for a speaker that canceled. The topic of Vulnerability Databases (VDBs) is very familiar to me, so the only trick was cramming an intricate topic into about 50 minutes. Overall, I attempt to enumerate the serious weaknesses in most VDBs that make…

  • Cyberwar: Not what we were expecting

    For BruCON 4 (2012), and for THOTCON 0x04 (2013), Josh Corman and I presented on Cyberwar. While the topic has been beaten to death, our talk focused on two aspects. First, a solid debunking of the rhetoric and hype that has dominated the topic for years. Second, building up a new set of ideas that…

  • Errata Hits Puberty: 13 Years of Chagrin

    I presented on the 13 year history of the Errata project at RVAsec giving a behind-the-scenes look at the nightmare and headaches involved. Both from the project, and from the security industry. This presentation was updated slightly, and given a month later at the Black Hat Briefings 2012 in Las Vegas. The attrition.org Errata project…

  • Anonymous 20*20: The Beginning is Near

    Josh Corman and I did a keynote presentation at SOURCE Boston 2012 about the hacktivist “group” Anonymous. Anonymous as a hacktivist group has been around in one form or another since 2008. That is only 4 years, yet to some it feels like a decade. Observation and commentary has been reactionary so far, with very…

  • Whoever Fights Monsters: Aaron Barr, Anonymous, and Ourselves

    I was part of a panel scheduled with Aaron Barr and Josh Corman that was moderated by Paul Roberts at DEF CON 19 in 2011. Due to legal concerns regarding HBGary, Barr had to bow out last minute and Kryptia stepped in to participate. He began wearing a disguise so the audience thought it might…

  • Everything is Vulnerable

    Jake Kouns and I gave a talk that covered vulnerability databases: inherent problems, important issues, major players, research & rankings, and the future. The presentation was at CanSecWest 2005 in Vancouver.

  • Lessons Learned From attrition.org / Mirror Image

    B.K. and I did a talk about our experience running the Attrition defacement mirror at BlackHat Briefings USA 2001.

  • Feds, Felons, and Flakes: Reflections on the Attrition Mirror

    In 2000, Matt, Dale, and myself did a presentation at BlackHat Briefings in Las Vegas on the Attrition defacement mirror, after we had concluded the project. Below is the summary and one slide from the stats for perspective. This presentation covered the basics of running the Defacement Mirror, problems we ran into, the mirror process,…