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This is SecTor 2012 – Canada’s Premiere Security Conference

SecTor: Illuminating the Black Art of Security.

Above is the vendor area, and below is the lunch keynote, the talk I was most looking forward to.

Meet Charlie Miller, one of the world’s best hackers, and, leading expert in a personal favourite topic, NFC.

NFC – Near Field Communication. You likely haven’t heard much about NFC yet, but you will.

Think of those ads on TV, where you put your phone next to your buddy’s, and photo gets beamed over wirelessly. That’s NFC. Charlie has figured out how to use NFC to hack your phone; here he is in action (green shirt).

He brushes close to the victim’s phone, and tada – Charlie can now access and download all the photos, contacts, files, make it call and text… and nothing AT ALL appears on the victim’s phone that would alert him this is happening.

Andorid users: you are, as always, the most susceptible to this attack. Best defense – check ‘yes I want to approve each NFC connection before it happens’.

He also said this, which is so true:

 This is what hacking looks like.

And this.

Not all all like that famous Swordfish movie scene, eh.

Above is a contest called, ‘Capture the Flag’; there’s one at most conferences.

I saw a basketball playing robots.

And a lockpick village.

I’ll show you what using those tools looks like on video sometime. Like hacking, it is not at all like in the movies.

Went upstairs for a sunlight break.

SecTor is happening again today, click here for detials.

If you’re intersted in getting into information security, this is your opportunity. It’s a friendly, and resource-rich environment, in an fast-growing industry that has an almost 100% employment rate.

Thanks for a great time, SecTor, and congratulations on your 6th and largest year  to date!

 

 

This is THE Marketing Conference to Attend

It’s the Art of Marketing at the MTCC March 7.

I’ve been invited to attend, and click here for the KeriBlog $50 off promo so you can come, too! We can hang out with other marketing people and trade tips.

I’m most excited to hear these three speak:

Guy Kawasaki because hellooooo Cheif Evangelist of Apple, and specifically, he’ll discuss, “how to influence what people will do while maintaining the highest standards of ethics”.  

Avinash Kaushik because analytics and are so interesting, and something I would like to be better at.  And Avinash’s thing is you can do it in a hour/day, which is great because there is never enough time.  Oh time.

And oooooof course Gary Vaynerchuk.

Remember that time I interviewed Gary?  Love him.

Hope to see you there, learning is fun and if you see me yell hi!!

(don’t forget to use this code to register and save 50 bucks).