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Upcoming Conferences I’d like to attend.

geeko.boy — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:05:00 +0000

This list below are conferences in the next 12 months I’d like to attend. There is some overlap. Mostly I’ll go to ones near Ottawa, but it would be nice to get to some of the others as well.

2011 IFIP Wireless Days (WD), 10 Oct – 12 Oct 2011, The Embassy Suites Niagara Falls Fallsview Hotel Niagara Falls, ON, Canada

SecTor, October 18 & 19, 2011.MTCC, Toronto, ON, Canada

SecureTech 2011, 25 Oct 2011 – 26 Oct 2011, Ottawa Convention Centre, Ottawa, Canada

MILCOM 2011, Baltimore Convention Centre, Baltimore, Maryland, November 7-9, 2011

SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 23 – 27 April 2012, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, San Francisco Bay Area, California, Spring 2012

2012 World Congress on Internet Security (WorldCIS-2012), 10 Jun – 12 Jun 2012, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

ICC 2012 – 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 10 Jun – 15 Jun 2012, Convention Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2012 79th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference (ARFTG), 22 Jun – 22 Jun 2012, Hyatt Hotel, Montreal, AB, Canada

2012 American Control Conference – ACC 2012, 27 Jun – 29 Jun 2012, QE Fairmont Hotel, Montreal, QC, Canada

2012 11th International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and their Applications (ISSPA), 03 Jul – 05 Jul 2012, Ecole de technologie superieure, Montreal, QC, Canada

Photonics North 2012, Hilton Montreal Bonaventure : June 6 to 8, 2012

2012 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA), 11 Jul – 13 Jul 2012, Delta Ottawa City Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2012 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 03 Sep – 06 Sep 2012, TBD,Quebec City, QC, Canada

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geeko.boy — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:19:44 +0000

Nato’s cyber defence centre

From the Naval Open Source INTelligence these buildings Nato’s cyber defence centre (CCD COE) in Tallinn Estonia. I guess Estonia’s issues with the Russians have created a need for expertises in cyber warfare. See more complete article here.

The Seven Types of Hackers

DWW — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:43:56 +0000

Hackers are no longer as simple as disgruntled teen hold up in his mothers basement anymore.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/02/the_seven_types.html

Are You A Uber-Hacker, Do You Want Be Uber-CSI?

DWW — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:21:11 +0000

What about combining these skills? Since 2006 the Defense Depar tment’s Cyber Crime Center, known as DC3, hold a competitions that allows teams or individuals test themselves against the best.

The event is called the DC3 Challenge. One of the features of this challenge that I like is the competition has skill levels from novice to developer. The event is open to individuals or teams from around the world. There are openings for high schools, universities and commercial entities.

This is what you will be working on in this competition: file signatures, suspicious software, meta data, passwords, breaking encryption, finding concealed data, developing new tools just to name a few.

The sponsors for this event are: the Defense Cyber Crime Center, the computer security organization SANS, the Malaysia-based International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats, the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants, the John Hopkins Carey Business School, Cyber Watch, and the United Kingdom Cyber Security Challenge.

There are awards for the following categories: overall, international, U.S. and U.S. academic.

So why not sign up, get a team together show that you have the right stuff and along the way you might even learn something new. For the lucky few, the geniuses of keyboards & circuit-boards, you will develop new tools that will help fight the next generation of cyber criminal.

Summer Is Here: Time To Go To A Conference

DWW — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:39:31 +0000

Well I’ve scrounged up enough money to go to this conference. Though I can not attend the full 3 days. Actually I’ve paid for three days just can not afford to take the full 3 days off of work. I should be about to attend 1/2 the presentations. Some of the stuff looks super interesting. Sadly, my experience is that even if the topic is ultra cool, you end up with some super nerd who has no presentation skills or a foreign accent so thick you need a translator for his/her English. Having said that I love going to these things. You meet some of the most interesting people working on seriously cutting edge stuff.

Sessions below I attended. For a full list of sessions please check the ANTEM/AMEREM website.

UPDATE: Well this was a great conference with sessions from image and signal processing for medical use to how to use cell phone antennas to find people in nearby buildings. I wish I could talk to more of the participants, it is alway hard for me to find a way to break the ice with people I don’t know.

2010 ANTEM/AMEREM

14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics [ANTEM] and the American Electromagnetics Conference [AMEREM]

The Program:

TA2: ANTEM Small Tunable Antennas and New Materials; [Organized Session]Tuesday, July 6th, MacDonald
TA5: UWB Noise Radar Applications in Homeland Security [Organized Session]; Tuesday, July 6th, Laurier Room
TA7: ANTEM Arrays and Leaky Wave Antennae; Tuesday, July 6th, Renaissance
TP9: ANTEM Antennas for Space Applications [Organized Session]; Tuesday, July 6th, MacDonald
TP10: ANTEM Sensors; Tuesday, July 6th, L’Orangerie
TP13: UWB Radar Systems and Signal Processing; Tuesday, July 6th, Drawing Room
TP14: ANTEM Bioelectromagnetics; Tuesday, July 6th, MacDonald
TP16: HPEM Electromagnetic Compatibility; Tuesday, July 6th, Burgundy
WA18: ANTEM Reflectarray Antennas [Organized Session]; Wednesday, July 7th, Renaissance
WA19: ANTEM Recent Developments on Earth-Space Propagation Research Applied to Satellite Communications [Organized Session]; Wednesday, July 7th, MacDonald
WA24: HPEM Antennas; Wednesday, July 7th, Burgundy
WP25: ANTEM Antenna Theory & Design I; Wednesday, July 7th, Renaissance
WP26: ANTEM Antennas for GPS/GNSS Applications [Organized Session]; Wednesday, July 7th, MacDonald
WP28: UWB Sensing Through Walls [Organized Session]; Wednesday, July 7th, Burgundy
WP29: HPEM Threats, Coupling Effects, Protection and Standards II [Organized Session]; Wednesday, July 7th, Laurier Room
TA33: ANTEM UWB Antennas and Systems II; Thursday, July 8th, Renaissance
TA34: ANTEM Microwave Devices and Circuits; Thursday, July 8th, MacDonald
TA36: UXO, Landmine, IED Detection I; Thursday, July 8th, Burgundy
TA37: UWB Antennas, Radiation and Propagation; Thursday, July 8th, Laurier Room
TA39: ANTEM EMI/EMC; Thursday, July 8th, Renaissance
TP40: ANTEM Artificial Dielectrics & Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures [Organized Session]; Thursday, July 8th, Renaissance
TP42: ANTEM Microstrip Integrated and Active Antennas; Thursday, July 8th, L’Orangerie
TP43: UXO, Landmine, IED Detection II; Thursday, July 8th, Burgundy
TP44: UWB Target Detection, Discrimination & Imaging; Thursday, July 8th, Laurier Room
TP45: HPEM Threats, Coupling Effects, Protection and Standards I [Organized Session]; Thursday, July 8th, Drawing Room
TP46: ANTEM Microwave and Millimeter Wave Antennas; Thursday, July 8th, L’Orangerie
TP48: UWB Communication [Organized Session]; Thursday, July 8th, Laurier Room

Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications (CISDA), 2009

DWW — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:56:01 +0000

Ottawa as has a cool conference coming up IEEE Symposium: Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications:Detecting and Adapting to Emerging Threats (CISDA), 2009. The Symposium runs 8-10 July 2009 here in Ottawa it look like a good line up of presentations.

* Applied Computational Intelligence in Biometrics
* Military Operational Logistics Modeling and Simulation
* Adaptive Network Security and Management
* Advanced Information Systems, Intelligence Exploration and Utilization, and Computer Architectures for Military and Security Applications
* Complex Systems Engineering: Defence and Security Applications
* Computational Intelligence Techniques for Complex Adaptive Systems in Defence and Security
* Computational Intelligence Systems in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

I will be attend at least two days and maybe more. I look forward to this opportunity to hobnob with a bunch of super geeks.

EDIT NOTE (Wed. 17, June, 2009): It is confirmed. I will be attending the full 3 days of this conference. Life is good.

Yet Another PHP Security Book

DWW — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:19:45 +0000

Securing PHP web applications

Tricia Ballad; Addison-Wesley 2009

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PHP is one area that really needs work when it comes to security. Its wide spread implementation has lead to numerous security concerns. In the last year we have seen several books on the topic. I can only hope that those that write PHP will take the time to read what is available, including this book. Too many times as a have I heard for customers/programmers say that security is not their problem… let the Sys. Admin’s take care of that…. Other PHP books is O’Reilly’s Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett and Pro PHP Security by Chris Snyder and Michael Southwell

Check out the Amazon reviews

New Security Book – Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks From Start To Finish

DWW — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:05:52 +0000

Chained exploits: advanced hacking attacks from start to finish

Andrew Whitaker; Addison-Wesley 2009

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Just got my hands on this book. To be honest I’m surprised a book like this took so long to make it to print. As a Linux user I chain commands together through something called bash scripting. So why wouldn’t crackers be doing the same thing. Lets be realistic, most crackers are automating their attacks and they’ve been doing this for a long time. So isn’t chaining various attacks together just good sense? I mean from the perspective of the bad guys.

Check out the Amazon reviews

The Ghost of Quantum Entanglement

DWW — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:25:20 +0000

I’m a bit of a quantum guy, but is an area that does not make the press that often. So I was quite happy when I came across an article online as Scientific American about about the possibility of quantum entanglement last past the point of entanglement destruction. “Spooky action at a distance” is how Albert Einstein described quantum entanglement.

quantum physicist Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that memories of entanglement can survive its destruction. He compares the effect to Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights: “the spectral Catherine communicates with her quantum Heathcliff as a flash of light from beyond the grave.”

If proved out this would have implications for quantum cryptography and quantum computing. Two areas of intensiveness research. Lloyd was investigating entanglement for illumination. Entangled photos could improve photography where a flash is used by reducing the amount of noise in the returning signal.

The area that this research might benifit from are radar, x-ray, optical telecommunications and microscopy increase there sensitivity maybe millions of times.

Source: sciam.com