The seventh White Rabbit workshop took place in CDTI, the Spanish Centre for Industrial Technological Development in Madrid on 27 and 28 November 2012. If you don't know about this project you might be interested in my last technical entry about White Rabbit project.
In this workshop Igalia reported on FMC TDC experience and some of the new technical ways used to fuel the project while developing and testing low level software using virtualization techniques.
Working in open projects is always a great experience and this time is not an excepction. Along this year we were collaborating and working with CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in several projects.
One the these projects goes under the name White Rabbit. But, what is White Rabbit? and how we are partnering with some of major European accelerators and research institutions to support it?
Chicago 2010, Boston 2011 and now... A Coruña 2012! ErlangCamp happened here in Europe for the first time and Igalia was among the sponsors. Great event and talks!
They were two days talking about Erlang and OTP framework, an open-source general-purpose programming language and runtime environment developed by Ericsson to build distributed and reliable soft real-time concurrent systems.
This event was planned and taught by Eric, Martin, Jordan and Laura. Thanks guys!
This year G.P.U.L held a new workshop (4th edition) on Cryptography, Security and Privacy. It was great enjoying this event again.
In the previous edition, I was among the speakers where I talked about self-replicating computer code, infection techniques and how security software was handling all this stuff.
This year, Ross Anderson was among the speakers. Good news having one world-class security expert talking about cryptology and security. If you don’t know Ross maybe you would like to check his personal web page on Cambridge. Ross is professor of Security Engineering at the Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory where he runs serious and pragmatic research on topics resolving global security issues.
Just blogging a quick post after caming back from Root3d CON in Madrid. This year I have to congratulate speakers again. They shared another year interesting ideas and good technical hacks. I would say this CON speaks loud and clear about the global security scene and the industry around it too. Congrats guys!
Related to technical work I would like to highlight some hot topics covered in talks such as banking attacks, loading malware in Domain Name Servers (DNS), subverting domotic facilities, cracking industrial embedded devices or bouncing along IP videos and on-line weather stations across the globe.
This past weekend I ended my lessons on our Master Software Libre.
If you follow this blog you will know I usually write down the topics I teach along these lessons. It is always good thing getting feedback and getting in touch with persons reading these lines.
By the way, this year our Master runs its fifth edition. I am proud to watch how it is working and how old and new students, teachers, collaborators, community advisors and all our friends build this knowledge community daily.
Great time at Master Software Libre teaching Physical Security and Cryptography contents this year. Two key areas at Information Security and Privacy.
These lessons were the first ones happening before my usual lessons on Networking, Security Networking and Linux Kernel.
On Physical Security time we worked on well-know physical system security methodologies, together with two new relevant topics: environmental design and design and evaluation of physical protection systems.
It was a lesson covering broad and detailed topics; ranging from designing defensible spaces, where you are able to use different elements and aspects to get natural social control and crime prevention, till a full description of technology and sensor availability to protect different facilities. Security standards or some notes to understand social behaviour (The Bronx study case) were worked out too.
On Cryptography, we walked along its history and development in order to understand cryptographic models and current crytographic systems, free/open software tooling, integration and usual use cases. At the end, everybody got their crypto stuff in place, ready to take part in keysigning parties and next social community events.
Ah! I almost forgot. This year, students will elaborate on the right design to build a safe and secure physical protection system for one embassy.
Happy to know about my two new sm7xx driver patches related to power management (PM) and framebuffer mode setting support were upstream in Linux kernel.
First patch adds the new PCI PM in order to let the PCI core code handling the PCI-specific details of power translations. It was tested in kernel version 2.6.38, including standby and hibernation support. I would like to thank to Wu Zhangjin. He was kind enough to run this testing.
Second patch implements dynamic framebuffer mode setting support. Previous code works with mode setting in a hard code way. It was tested with SM712 supporting 1024x600x16 as default hardware resolution.
Several months ago I faced an interesting project around eInk technology. Basically, it had several clear goals about porting GNOME technologies in order to get a better stack that the hardware manufacturer's. You know ... better development tools, better testbed and finally ... better user experience :)
With this project I played with a Hanlin v5 device as a test gadget. If you check original specs about the product you will realize this gadget runs a Samsung Arm 9 400MHz processor with SDRAM 32MB and main display eInk Vizplex (5" diagonal, 800x600 and 8 level grayscale) so ... what about getting some proof of concept to check possibilities! ;)
Root3d CON is gone. March 3th, 4th and 5th were hot days in Madrid where CON took place in Castellana Street ... funny watching a lot of grey hats walking along the street where major banks and financial companies are located :) ...
Regarding this second edition live hacking sessions became an usual practice with a lot of members of the community showing their black and white skills in short periods of time.
Far from commercial slots where some well known companies showed their products, services and so on some concrete talks attracted my attention:
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