WebVivant

NOV 2008

  • Anti-Social Networking: the dangers of social network sites (Steve Mansfield-Devine)
  • Preventing hypervisor-based rootkits with trusted execution technology (Gebhardt et al)
  • Network reconnaissance (Shaikh et al)
  • Technological alternatives in incident response (Dario Forte)
  • An everyman SIM (Bruce Potter)

 

DEC 2008

  • Desktop encryption (Ken Munro)
  • Automating security events management (Fabian Libeau, ArcSight)
  • Danger in the clouds: the potential weaknesses of cloud-based solutions (Steve Mansfield-Devine)
  • False positive response (Siraj Shaikh, Cranfield Uni)
  • The ‘phasing-in’ of security governance in the SDLC (Jack Danahy, Ounce Labs)
  • Dealing with forensic software vulnerabilities: is anti-forensics a real danger? (Dario Forte)

 

2009

JAN 2009

  • Anatomy of a malware attack (Jacques Erasmus, Prevx)
  • Dollars for downloading (Maksyn Schipka, MessageLabs)
  • Technologies for spam detection (Simon Heron, Network Box)
  • Microsoft SDL Threat modelling tool (Bruce Potter)
  • So are we going to govern this security business? (Dario Forte)

 

FEB 2009

  • Password protection: the next generation (Tom Rowan, Magirus)
  • De-perimeterisation: inevitable and essential (Alastair Broom, Dimension Data)
  • A window to the world? (Tamas Biro, Sense/Net)
  • From vulnerability to patch: the window of exposure (Aditya Sood, SecNiche)
  • Three tips for your network (Bruce Potter)
  • The death of MD5 (Dario Forte)

 

MAR 2009

  • Google hacking 101 (Steve Mansfield-Devine)
  • Here’s looking at you Kido (Vitaly Kamluk, Kaspersky Lab)
  • In-session phishing and knowing your enemy (Ori Eisen, 41st Parameter)
  • Is your system pwned? (Aditya Sood, SecNiche Security)
  • Creating risk management strategies for IT security (Steve Southern, Amethyst Risk Management)
  • Security audits in mixed environments (Dario Forte)

 

APR 2009

  • Cyberwar in Estonia and the Middle East (Aviram Jenik, Beyond Security)
  • Simple website footprinting (Steve Mansfield-Devine)
  • Chinese cyber-attack tools continue to evolve (Dennis Dwyer, SecureWorks)
  • A good policy (Simeon Heron, Network Box)
  • Real security for virtual machines (Ulf Mattsson, Protegrity)
  • Anatomy of a phishing attack: a high-level overview (Dario Forte)

 

MAY 2009

  • Fuzzing tools: making sense out of nonsense (Aviram Jenik, Beyond Security)
  • The cybercrime threat to online transactions (Bruno Rodriguez, Panda Labs)
  • Real-time cross-layer design for a large-scale flood detection and attack trace-back mechanism in IEEE 802.11 wireless mesh networks (Khan, Loo)
  • Joing the dots (Richard Walters, Overtis Systems)
  • Phishing in Depth (Dario Forte)

 

JUN 2009

  • Online privacy and browser security (Simon Heron, Network Box)
  • A matter of trust (code signing) (Steve Mansfield-Devine)
  • Not-so-smart meters? (Steve Gold)
  • Towards scalable intrusion detection (Shaikh et al)
  • Intrusion detection systems (Ben Rexworthy, Securinet)

 

JUL 2009

  • Application whitelisting (Steve Mansfield-Devine)
  • Are you court validated? (Dario Forte)
  • Understanding and exploiting the reverse patterns of peer-to-peer file-sharing application (Luca Caviglione)
  • The enemy within (Wendy Goucher)
  • A review of L0phtCrack 6 (Bruce Potter)
  • The importance of log files in security incident prevention (Dario Forte)

 

AUG 2009

  • Behaviour analysis & the needs for standards (James Mortleman)
  • SCADA systems security (Steve Gold)
  • The role of Information Security Managers (Dario Forte)
  • Numeric Data Integrity & regulatory compliance (Jane Frankland, Corsaire)
  • Security in a virtualised world - cloud computing (Kevin Sloane, Amethyst Risk)
  • The security challenges of 10Gbps networks (Daniel Joseph Barry, Napatech)