With BayThreat 2014 being cancelled, OpenDNS has offered to host the first day of the two day No Big Thing (NBT) conference. In a short time, the organizers of the event have had an amazing group of speakers, sponsors, and volunteers help organize a great hacker conference.
The event is currently at capacity but there is a waitlist that anyone can add themselves to.
The event includes two days of advanced information security presentations, food, drinks, and a hallway track for socializing. Starting Friday, December 5th at 2:00pm PST, OpenDNS opens its doors to kick off the conference at 135 Bluxome Street.
Schedule:
Friday, December 5th at OpenDNS (135 Bluxome St, San Francisco, CA 94107)
Time | Speaker | Topic |
2:30-3:30 | Richo Healy | “Audible networking with Groundstation” |
3:30-4:30 | MainBoard | “point bREak : trolling BBS applications and users back in the 90s” |
4:30-5:00 | Jason Craig | “SIGINT isn’t just for the government anymore” |
5:00-6:00 | Speaker TBA | Topic TBA |
6:00-6:30 | Provided dinner break | |
6:30-7:00 | Ping Yan | “Applied statistics and machine learning techniques on in-app events” |
7:00-8:00 | Alex Pinto | “From Threat Intelligence to Defense Cleverness: A Data Science Approach” |
8:00-10:00 | Provided tacos and cerveses | |
10:00-? | Hosted party at bar TBA |
Saturday, December 6th, the conference is being hosted at the Salesforce office (121 Spear St, San Francisco, CA 94105) starting at 10:00am.
Time | Speaker | Topic |
10:00-11:00 | Kymberlee Price | “More Libraries! More Vulnerabilities! More Things!” |
11:00-12:00 | Morgan Marquis-Boire | “Eve, Mallory, and Jack Bauer: Real threats for RealPeople” |
12:00-12:30 | Ben Sadegh | “How bug bounty hunters do and don’t” |
12:30-1:00 | Provided lunch | |
1:00-2:00 | Wartortell | “The trials and tribulations of an APTmalware author” |
2:00-3:00 | John Menerick | “Breaking or Protecting the Internet’s BuildingBlocks” |
3:00-4:00 | TBA + break | |
4:00-5:00 | Dan Hranj and Josh Schwartz | “Red vs Blue” |
5:00-6:00 | Evan Booth | “MacGyveresque creative problem solving” |
6:00-8:00 | Provided dinner and drinks | |
8:00-10:00 | Hosted party at bar TBA | |
10:00-? | Cash Bar Crawl (check Twitter for location updates) |
Each evening will have a hosted happy hour and dinner with an afterparty at a local bar. We hope to see you there!
Check out our the official Twitter account for the latest announcements: @nbtcon.
For directions to OpenDNS, please use the following map for a point of reference:
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Last week we had the pleasure of speaking at the 6th Irish Reporting and Information Security Service Computer Emergency Response Team (IRISSCERT) Cyber Crime Conference (IRISSCon) in Dublin, Ireland. IRISSCERT is an independent, not-for-profit company, limited by guarantee, and founded in 2008 to provide a range of free services to Irish businesses and consumers in relation to information security issues to help counter the security threats posed to Irish businesses and the Irish Internet space.
In addition to presenting a talk on the threats facing Ireland’s corner of the Internet, we were also at IRISSCon to announce a data sharing partnership between IRISSCERT and OpenDNS. Visibility into emerging threats, as they are being staged, is a critical first step in staying ahead of Internet attacks and limiting their damage. We are pleased to be announcing this intelligence sharing relationship with IRISSCERT so they can use OpenDNS solutions for early detection, response, and remediation of threats in Ireland.
IRISSCERT will use OpenDNS Investigate to alert and protect Irish businesses and other organizations from malicious domains that are hosting malware, phishing sites, and botnet command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure. OpenDNS will use the threat intelligence data shared by IRISSCERT to support our ongoing research into malicious online activity around the world. The full press release can be found here.
The organizers informed us that the conference sold out (at roughly 300 people!). Not only did it sell out, but there was a lengthy waitlist to get in, with organizations and individuals calling on the day of to try and obtain “special” access.
Prior to the event, the conference speakers (myself included) got together for dinner, drinks, and lengthy discussions on the global security landscape – with a focus on Ireland and Western Europe. This was a pleasant change from the typical US-centric discussions we often encounter at North American security conferences. The craic was mighty.
For a one day conference, there were far too many great talks to call out. As you can see in the keynote by Paul Gillen, Head of Operations at @Europol_EU European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the conference was very well attended.
In addition to the speaking portion of the conference, a well attended capture the flag (CTF) competition was run in the adjacent room. The winners, a group of students from the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown (ITB) in Dublin, had participated in previous years’ IRISSCON CTFs.
Oh, and did I mention the amazing food and drink?
Look for OpenDNS Labs at more EMEA events in 2015 as we continue to bring our global security platform to every corner of the globe. Also, if you would like to explore an information sharing partnership like the one we’ve established with IRISSCERT, please reach out to me directly at andrew.hay@opendns.com.
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As a follow up to our previous post, the agenda for the S4 Incident Responder and Researcher Conference, being held at OpenDNS HQ on September 18th, 2014, is now finalized.
Time | Title | Presenter |
8:00 | Breakfast and coffee (first talk 9AM SHARP!) | n/a |
9:00 – 11:00 | Malware Analysis for Incident Responders | Lenny Zeltser, The SANS Institute |
11:00 – 13:00 | Using Bro* | Anthony Kasza, OpenDNS |
13:00 – 15:00 | Using Moloch | Scott Floyd, Salesforce |
15:00 – 17:00 | IR 2.0 : Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana (ELK) | The folks at Elastic Search |
Note: Lunch will be provided and available during the Bro session.
Time | Title | Presenter |
17:00 – 17:20 | Measuring the IQ of your Threat Intelligence Feeds | Alex Pinto, MLSec Project |
17:30 – 17:50 | FastResponder: New Open Source weapon to detect and understand a large scale compromise | Sébastien Larinier, Guillaume Arcas, and Olivier Zheng, Sekoia |
18:00 – 18:20 | Threat intelligence for Incident Responders | Sam Liles, Cyberforensics Laboratory at Purdue |
18:30 – 18:50 | Building Your Own DFIR Sidekick | Scott J Roberts, GitHub |
19:00 – 19:20 | GRR and Rekall: State of the Union | Elizabeth Schweinsberg and Kristinn Gudjonsson, Google |
19:30 – 22:00 | Networking, drinks, and conversation | n/a |
Who: Incident Responders, Security Researchers, Security Analysts
What: S4 (San Francisco Security Series): Incident Responder and Researcher Conference
When: September 18, 2014 (registration starts at 8:30 AM. First training at 9:00AM)
Where: OpenDNS HQ, 135 Bluxome St., San Francisco, CA 94107
Price: Free
Food and Drinks: Provided
Free and reliable WiFi: Provided
Event Hashtag: #s4con
OpenDNS Twitter Account: twitter.com/OpenDNS
Please reserve soon as space is limited. Again, the registration link can be found here: https://irespond.eventbrite.com.
We look forward to seeing you!
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