Category Archives: Conferences

Report from SecurityZone 2011 – The 1st International Security Conference in Colombia (Cali)

Last month I was invited to Cali’s SecurityZone for the 1st International Security Conference of Colombia. Edgar Rojas, CEO of The MuRo Group, brought together 16 well-known and strong international security experts for a 2+1 days of conference in a DEFCON/BlackHat style. Among them, … Continue reading

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Report from RAID 2011

A few weeks ago we attended the 14th Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) Symposium in Menlo Park, California. The conference was held at SRI International and featured 20 talks about malware, application security, anomaly detection and network security. Our … Continue reading

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Report from the USENIX Security Symposium 2011

Last week we attended the 20th USENIX Security Symposium in San Francisco. Taking advantage of the high availability of travel grants and of the fact that the conference was close to Santa Barbara, we packed a minivan with people and … Continue reading

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Short update on Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2011

Yesterday, I returned from the Financial Crypto conference. This year, FC was organized on the beautiful island of Saint Lucia. The small Caribbean island covers 620 km2 of land and it has an estimated population of 173.765 people. Two mountains, … Continue reading

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G-Free: Defeating Return-Oriented Programming and ACSAC 2010

After an adrenaline-inducing trip involving an aircraft breakdown and heavy snowing, I am back from Austin, TX, where I attended ACSAC ’10 together with Davide. Austin is promoted as the “The Live Music Capital of the World”, and it shows: … Continue reading

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OWASP BeNeLux 2010

I just got back from Holland where I was invited to participate in the annual OWASP BeNeLux conference with a talk on Clickjacking. For the second year, the OWASP chapters of Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg co-organized an event with the … Continue reading

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Short RAID 2010 Report: A New Threat for Social Networks?

It has been over a month since I returned from the RAID conference in Canada. This year, RAID was organized in Ottawa, the capital. I tend to think that Ottawa was declared “the capital” for its location rather that its … Continue reading

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