KEYNOTE: From Payment to Ransomware, Via the Internet of Things Presented by Tony Gee

Photos by @AlexjElliott and ‏@GoyJohn

Here's our Tony Gee with his "How IoT and your connected car can reveal your privates" presentation. Photos courtesy of @brianjsmyth and @MattyHatton.

Security is often considered in strictly technical terms, but in the future worlds of IoT, many parties will be involved in delivering and maintaining devices, data and services – from chip vendors and software developers through ODM’s to service providers. Maintaining security needs not just good encryption standards and implementations, it demands that every party […]

***The Thermostat, the Hacker, and the Malware*** Following the PoC thermostat ransomware that Pen Test Partners performed at DefCon 24, this presentation digs even deeper into IoT devices and their apps. Staying with the thermostat Ken will walk through the ransomware attack and then move onto general malware - which has no easy method for […]