Like I did in previous years/versions, this year I participated again on Pixels.camp, a kind of conference plus hackathon. For those who aren’t aware, it is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) technology event in Portugal (from a technical perspective not counting with the Web Summit).
So, as I did in previous editions, I’m gonna leave here a small list with the nicest talks I was able to attend.
Lockpicking versus IT security
This one was super interesting, Walter Belgers showed the audience a set of problems in make locks and compared those mistakes with the ones regularly done by software developers.
Al least for me the more impressive parts of the whole presentation were the demonstrations of the flaws on regular (and high security) locks.
Talk description here.
Containers 101
“Everybody” uses containers nowadays, on this talk the speaker took a step back and went through the history and the major details behind this technology. Then he shows how you could implement a part of it yourself using common Linux features and tools.
Talk description here.
Static and dynamic analysis of events for threat detection
This one was a nice overview about Siemens infrastructure for threat detection, their approaches and used tools. It was also possible to understand some of the obstacles and challenges a company must address to protect a global infrastructure.
Talk description here.
Protecting Crypto exchanges from a new wave of man-in-the-browser attacks
This presentation used the theme of protecting crypto-currency exchanges but gave lots of good hints on how to improve security of any website or web application. The second half of the talk focused on a kind of attack called man-in-the-browser and focused on a demonstration of it. In my opinion, this last part was weaker and I left with the impression it lacked details about the most crucial part of the attack while spending a lot of time on less important stuff.
Talk description here.