[GLLUG] OSHUG #31 -- Privacy and Security, 20th February 2014.

[Tom Taylor]

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On 3 Feb 2014 18:44, "adam at geekism.co.uk" <adam at geekism.co.uk> wrote:

>  Is anyone planing on going to this?
>
> Adam
>
> Sent from my HTC
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> From: "Andrew Back" <andrew at carrierdetect.com>
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> Subject: [GLLUG] OSHUG #31 -- Privacy and Security, 20th February 2014.
> Date: Sun, Feb 2, 2014 21:04
>
> Hello,
>
> Details below of the first OSHUG meeting of 2014, which those with an
> interest in privacy, security and RFID hacking may wish to head along
> to.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> //
>
> Event #31 -- Privacy and Security (Security protocols in constrained
> environments, RFIDler, Indie Phone)
>
> 20th February 2014, 17:30 - 20:30 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The
> Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA.
>
>   Registration: http://oshug.org/event/31
>
> The thirty-first OSHUG meeting is dedicated to privacy and security,
> with talks on implementing security protocols in constrained
> environments, an SDR RFID reader/writer/emulator, and a new initiative
> that will use design thinking and open source to create a truly
> empowering mobile phone.
>
> -- Security protocols in constrained environments
>
> Implementation of security protocols such as TLS, SSH or IPsec come
> with a memory and compute overhead. Whilst this has become negligible
> in full scale environments it's still a real issue for hobbyist and
> embedded developers. This presentation will look at the sources of the
> overheads, what can be done to minimise them, and what sort of
> hardware platforms can be made to absorb them. The benefits and
> potential pitfalls of hardware specific implementations will also be
> examined.
>
> Chris Swan is CTO at CohesiveFT where he helps build secure cloud
> based networks. He's previously been a security guy at large Swiss
> banks, and before that was a Weapon Engineering Officer in the Royal
> Navy. Chris has tinkered with electronics since pre-school, and these
> days has a desk littered with various dev boards and projects.
>
> -- RFIDler: A Software Defined RFID Reader/Writer/Emulator
>
> Software Defined Radio has been quietly revolutionising the world of
> RF. However, the same revolution has not yet taken place in RFID. The
> proliferation of RFID/NFC devices means that it is unlikely that you
> will not interact with one such device or another on a daily basis.
> Whether it's your car key, door entry card, transport card,
> contactless credit card, passport, etc. you almost certainly have one
> in your pocket right now!
>
> RFIDler is a new project, created by Aperture Labs, designed to bring
> the world of Software Defined Radio into the RFID spectrum. We have
> created a small, open source, cheap to build platform that allows any
> suitably powerful microprocessor access to the raw data created by the
> over-the-air conversation between tag and reader coil. The device can
> also act as a standalone 'hacking' platform for RFID
> manipulation/examination. The rest is up to you!
>
> Adam "Major Malfunction" Laurie is a security consultant working in
> the field of electronic communications, and a Director of Aperture
> Labs Ltd., who specialise in reverse engineering of secure systems. He
> started in the computer industry in the late Seventies, and quickly
> became interested in the underlying network and data protocols.
>
> During this period, he successfully disproved the industry lie that
> music CDs could not be read by computers, and wrote the world's first
> CD ripper, 'CDGRAB'. He was also involved various early open source
> projects, including 'Apache-SSL' which went on to become the de-facto
> standard secure web server. Since the late Nineties he has focused his
> attention on security, and has been the author of various papers
> exposing flaws in Internet services and/or software, as well as
> pioneering the concept of re-using military data centres (housed in
> underground nuclear bunkers) as secure hosting facilities.
>
> Andy Ritchie has been working in the computer and technology industry
> for over 20 years for major industry players such as ICL, Informix,
> British Airways and Motorola. Founding his first company, Point 4
> Consulting at the age of 25, he built it into a multi-million pound
> technology design consultancy. Point 4 provided critical back end
> technology and management for major web sites such as The Electronic
> Telegraph, MTV, United Airlines, Interflora, Credit Suisse,BT,
> Littlewoods and Sony. Following Point 4 he went on to found Ablaise, a
> company that manages the considerable intellectual property generated
> by Point 4, and Aperture Labs. In his spare time he manages the worlds
> largest and longest running security conference, Defcon. Andy's
> research focuses on access control systems, biometric devices and
> embedded systems security, and he has spoken and trained at
> information security conferences in Europe and the US publicly and for
> private and governmental audiences. He is responsible for identifying
> major vulnerabilities in various access control and biometric systems,
> and has a passion for creating devices that emulate access control
> tokens either electronic physical or biometric. Andy has been
> responsible both directly and indirectly for changing access control
> guidelines for several western governments. Andy is currently a
> director of Aperture Labs Ltd, a company that specialises in reverse
> engineering and security evaluations of embedded systems.
>
> -- Indie: a tale of privacy, civil liberties, and a phone
>
> Can a phone really help protect our civil liberties? Aral Balkan
> thinks so. And he's embarked on an audacious journey to make one. Join
> us to hear the introduction of a two-year story that is only just
> beginning.
>
> Aral Balkan is is founder and designer of Indie Phone, a phone that
> empowers mere mortals to own their own data.
>
> Note: Please aim to by 18:15 as the first talk will start at 18:30 prompt.
>
> --
> Andrew Backhttp://carrierdetect.com
>
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