Summary of Cybersecurity Conferences Happening This Week [Week 46, 2016]

Henry Dalziel | Information Security Conferences | November 14, 2016

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This post is a summary of Information Security (InfoSec) events, conferences and meetings that are taking place this week: business week# 45 (November 14 – November 20, 2016).

Quick heads-up – our directory listing for cybersecurity conferences happening throughout 2017 is now live and rapidly growing. For more information please click here.

Here’s the week’s latest cyber security conference, event news & recommended talks:

• RSA Speaker List Announced For San Francisco (Feb 2017)
• Riyadh To Host The Second Annual International Cyber Security Conference (ICSC)
• Appropriate because of Trump: International Conference on Cyber Law, Cyber Crime & Cyber Security)
• Takeaways from the 18th Annual AT&T Cybersecurity Conference
• Video: FBI cybersecurity chief talks about aftermath of Wikileaks, Snowden, and 2016 election

Here’s the week’s recommened cybersecurity talks from conferences (this week they happen to all be from DEFCON.

• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Mudge Zatko and Sarah Zatko – Project CITL
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Panel – Ask the EFF
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Terrell McSweeny and Lorrie Cranor – Research on the Machines: Help the FTC
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: The Bob Ross Fan Club – Propaganda: You and your devices
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Dr Paul Vixie – Frontrunning The Frontrunners
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Jake Kouns – Cyber Who Done It: Attribution Analysis Through Arrest History
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Jennifer Granick – Slouching Towards Utopia – The State of the Internet Dream
• DEF CON 24 Conference – Jonathan Mayer, Panel – Meet the Feds
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Richard Thieme – Playing Through Pain: The Impact of Secrets and Dark Knowledge
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Shane Steiger Are You Playing with a Full Deck
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: DC101 – DEF CON 101 Panel
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Jay Healey – Feds and 0Days: From Before Heartbleed to After FBI Apple
• DEF CON 24 Wireless Village Speaker/s: Balint Seeber – SDR Tips and Tricks
• DEF CON 24 Wireless Village Speaker/s: Brian Butterly and Stefan Kiese – Introducing the HackMeRF
• DEF CON 24 Wireless Village Speaker/s: Village People – Wireless Capture the Flag Inbrief
• DEF CON 24 Wireless Village Speaker/s: Village People – WCTF Day 2 Kickoff
• DEF CON 24 Wireless Village Speaker/s: Matt Knight – Reversting LoRa Deconstructing a Next Gen Proprietary LP
• DEF CON 24 Wireless Village Speaker/s: Lyer and Nandedkar – Covert Cupid Under 11 Veil Approach for Covert
• DEF CON 24 Wireless Village Speaker/s:  Kat Sweet – I Amateur Radio And So Can You
• DEF CON 24 Wireless Village Speaker/s: Jose Gutierrez and Ben Ramsey – How Do I BLE Hacking
• DEF CON 24 Wireless Village Speaker/s:Gabriel Ryan – Slaving Rogue Access Points w/ Python & Cheap Hardw
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: goldfisk, follower – Breaking the Internet of Vibrating Things
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Elie Bursztein, Celine Bursztein, – Cheating at Poker
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Dr Phil – Mouse Jiggler: Offense and Defense
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Anthony Rose, Ben Ramsey – Picking Bluetooth Low Energy Locks a Quarter Mille Away
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Ang Cui – A Monitor Darkly: Reversing and Exploiting Ubiquitous OSD Controllers
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Zero Chaos and Granolocks – Realtime bluetooth device detection Blue Hydra
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Plore – Side channel attacks on high security electronic safe locks
• DEF CON 24 Conference Mike Use Their Machines Against Them Loading Code with a Copier
• DEF CON 24 Conference Aaron Luo – Drones Hijacking: Multidimensional attack vectors and countermea
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Amro Abdelgawad – The Remote Metamorphic Engine
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Anch – So you think you want to be a penetration tester
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Andy Robbins. Rohan Vazarkar, Will Schroeder – Six Degrees of Domain Admin
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: ashmastaflash – SITCH:Inexpensive Coordinated GSM Anomaly Detection
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Benjamin Holland – Developing Managed Code Rootkits for JRE
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Bertin Bervis Bonilla, James Jara – Exploiting seismological networks Rem
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: bigezy and saci – An introduction to Pinworm : MITM for your metadata
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Brad Dixon – pin2pwn: How to Root an Embedded Linux Box with a Sewing Needl
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Brad Woodberg – Malware Command and Control Channels: A journey into darkness
• DEF CON 23 Speaker/s: Brian Gorenc. Fritz Sands – State of the Union for SCADA HMI Vulnerabilities
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Bryant Zadegan, Ryan Lester – Abusing Web Standards for AppSec Glory
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Chris Eagle, Sk3wlDbg – Emulating many of the things with Ida
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: CINCVolFLT, AK3R303 – NG911: The Next Gen of Emergency Ph0nage
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Clarence Chio – Machine Duping 101: Pwning Deep Learning Systems
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Dan AltF4 Petro Reversing Video Games to Create an Unbeatable AI Player
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Joe FitzPatrick, Joe Grand – 101 Ways to Brick your Hardware
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Joe Grand and Zoz – BSODomizer HD: A mischievous FPGA HDMI platform
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Jonathan Brossard – Intro to Wichcraft Compiler Collection
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Jonathan Christofer Demay – Auditing 6LoWPAN Networks using Standard Tools
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Jonathan Christofer Demay, Arnaud Lebrun – CANSPY: Auditing CAN Devices
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Joshua Drake, Steve Christey Coley – Vulnerabilities 101
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: JusticeBeaver – Discovering and Triangulating Rogue Cell Towers
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: K2 – BlockFighting with a Hooker: BlockfFghter2!
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Kai Zhong – 411: A framework for managing security alerts
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Karyn Benson – Examining the Internet’s pollution
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Linuz, Medic – Sticky Keys To The Kingdom: Pre auth RCE
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: LosT – Hacker Fundamentals and Cutting Through Abstraction
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Lucas Lundgren, Neal Hindocha – Light Weight Protocol: Critical Implications
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Luke Young – Attacking Network Infrastructure to Generate a 4 Tbs DDoS
• DEF CON 24 Speaker/s: Willa Cassandra Riggins, abyssknight – Esoteric Exfiltration

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Here’s a summary of events this week:

SANS London 2016, November 14 – 19, 2016, London, United Kingdom
SANS Events are awesome. They are extremely beneficial to your career and you will learn a ton. This week we notice two events taking place in London and Houston Texas.

SANS Healthcare Cyber Security Summit & Training 2016, November 14 – 21, 2016, Houston, United States
The SANS events in Texas is in fact their “Fourth Annual Healthcare Cybersecurity Summit.” At this event professional cyber folk will be discussing proven and effective approaches for securing and succeeding in the new healthcare environment. You’ll have the chance to meet with leaders from top organizations and see what truly works in securing healthcare.

The Fifth International Conference on Informatics and Applications (ICIA2016), November 14 – 16, Kagawa, Japan
We do not typically get that many events cyber (information security) events from Japan so we are more than delighted to list this event. This event, which takes place over three days, will include presentations delivered by researchers from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures.

The 4th International HLS & CYBER Conference, November 14 – 17, 2016, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
This is a great event for those living and working in cybersecurity in Israel. This cyber event, according to the organizers, “provides an extensive array of outstanding and innovative technologies specifically designed to counter a variety of threats in an ever-changing world.”

World Congress on Internet Security (WorldCIS-2016), November 14 – 16, 2016, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Also taking place this week is the World Congress on Internet Security. This event, according to the organizers, is to “bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem and to fostering discussions on information technologies, information systems and global security applications. The WorldCIS-2016 invites speakers and researchers to submit papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation.”

Data Connectors Phoenix Tech-Security Conference (Cybersecurity Event), November 17, 2016, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Data Connectors’ technology security conferences are focused on providing you with the latest best practices, products and services available to the community right now in an educational environment.

GreHack, November 18, 2016, Grenoble, France
The International Symposium on Research in Grey-Hat Hacking – aka GreHack. It will gather researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to discuss new advances in Security.