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Episode 107: What’s Hot at Black Hat & does DHS need its new Risk Management Center?
In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#107): Hacker Summer Camp takes place in Las Vegas this week as the Black Hat, DEFCON and B-Sides conferences take place. We’re joined by DigiCert Chief Technology Officer Dan Timpson to talk about the presentations that are worth seeing. And, in our second segment, The Department of Homeland Security launched a new Risk Analysis Center that sounds a whole lot like some programs it already runs. Is this bureaucratic overkill or is DHS on to something?
Black Hat: Algorithms are not our Friends
The Black Hat Briefings conference kicks off this week in Las Vegas. The annual event, jokingly referred to as “hacker summer camp,” has long been a proving ground for top researchers and a stage for headline grabbing hacks and exploits.
This year will be no different, with attacks on implantable medical devices and smart cars on the agenda.
What are the big trends at this year’s show? To find out, we invited Dan Timpson the Chief Technology Officer at DigiCert* back into the Security Ledger studios to talk about what talks and demonstrations caught his eye, and about the most important themes to emerge from this year’s show.
Dan said that the security and integrity of machine learning systems and the algorithms that are dictating security behavior is a major area of interest and concern. He recommended the Raffael Marty’s talk on Thursday on “Why Algorithms are Dangerous.”
Dan and I also talk about DigiCert’s latest foray into the BlockChain scene as a new member of the Linux Foundation and also the HyperLedger initiative. While BlockChain is no (clear) replacement for traditional PKI deployments, there are many potential applications of the technology. “There is some magical thinking (about) blockchain topic. It’s in the point of time where its still being proven,” Timpson told me. “But on the legit side, I think we see opportunities with electronic health records or supply chain management.” Blockchain, he said, could be used to track food within complex food or technology supply chains and DigiCert sees opportunities to use its background as a Certificate Authority and managing digital identities to further Blockchain adoption.
Some other presentation that Dan and I discus:
* Understanding and Exploiting Implanted Medical Devices
* Over-the-Air: How we Remotely Compromised the Gateway BCM and Autopilot ECUs of Tesla Cars
* Deep Neural Networks for Hackers: Methods Applications and Open Source Tools
* Applied Self Driving Car Security
* Breaking the IIOT: Hacking Industrial Control Gateways
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In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#107): Hacker Summer Camp takes place in Las Vegas this week as the Black Hat, DEFCON and B-Sides conferences take place. We’re joined by DigiCert Chief Technology Officer Dan Timpson to talk about the presentations that are worth seeing. And, in our second segment, The Department of Homeland Security launched a new Risk Analysis Center that sounds a whole lot like some programs it already runs. Is this bureaucratic overkill or is DHS on to something?
Black Hat: Algorithms are not our Friends
The Black Hat Briefings conference kicks off this week in Las Vegas. The annual event, jokingly referred to as “hacker summer camp,” has long been a proving ground for top researchers and a stage for headline grabbing hacks and exploits.
This year will be no different, with attacks on implantable medical devices and smart cars on the agenda.
What are the big trends at this year’s show? To find out, we invited Dan Timpson the Chief Technology Officer at DigiCert* back into the Security Ledger studios to talk about what talks and demonstrations caught his eye, and about the most important themes to emerge from this year’s show.
Dan said that the security and integrity of machine learning systems and the algorithms that are dictating security behavior is a major area of interest and concern. He recommended the Raffael Marty’s talk on Thursday on “Why Algorithms are Dangerous.”
Dan and I also talk about DigiCert’s latest foray into the BlockChain scene as a new member of the Linux Foundation and also the HyperLedger initiative. While BlockChain is no (clear) replacement for traditional PKI deployments, there are many potential applications of the technology. “There is some magical thinking (about) blockchain topic. It’s in the point of time where its still being proven,” Timpson told me. “But on the legit side, I think we see opportunities with electronic health records or supply chain management.” Blockchain, he said, could be used to track food within complex food or technology supply chains and DigiCert sees opportunities to use its background as a Certificate Authority and managing digital identities to further Blockchain adoption.
Some other presentation that Dan and I discus:
* Understanding and Exploiting Implanted Medical Devices
* Over-the-Air: How we Remotely Compromised the Gateway BCM and Autopilot ECUs of Tesla Cars
* Deep Neural Networks for Hackers: Methods Applications and Open Source Tools
* Applied Self Driving Car Security
* Breaking the IIOT: Hacking Industrial Control Gateways
*