old habits die hard

I’m coming back from Istanbul where I posted some quick notes from hotel and airports … awesome city and very good people

As you know, I landed this thursday at Coruña and on friday I was teaching at Master on Free Software the last security networking lesson. With this lesson we finished our first security block. This time we finished with a full laboratory covering practical corporative firewalling and a real web hacking session.

We played a dynamics group too where we were talking about security industry and how it impacts our enterprises and organizations. In particular we spoke about adding effective countermeasures in your organization/business, our current security situation, being productive with open security tools, handling vulnerability responsible disclosure or the new vulnerability markets among other topics.

We close this master class answering doubts and sharing our opinions and ideas about effective security.

Intense days here in Istanbul attending to GUADEC 2008 where I could track some very interesting and revealing key notes and technical sessions.

GUADEC is truly an innovation engine where among meetings, talks and so far you can share and evolve good ideas and opportunities with maybe the best minds changing the world quickly. This time I was chatting to people at Canonical, Nokia, Imendio or Sun (good party and beers guys!) and it was really fantastic knowing about their opinions and expertise at different domains.

I had the opportunity to talk to Stormy Peters too, our new Executive Director and an awesome industry analyst. As you know she was responsible for Hewlett Packard’s open source strategy, policy and business practices. Among different topics we share the same ideas about software and passion and how it impact the organization’s culture. I really enjoyed a lot talking to her.

Now, GUADEC 2008 is over and we already know the new place hosting GUADEC 2009. It’ll be a beautiful and sunny island, Gran Canaria. See you there guys!

As you know I landed at Istanbul yesterday in order to enjoy some good talks at GUADEC and drink some beers with old and new friends

Today I attended to Clutter (beautiful prototype guys!), Leisa Reichelt’s key note and Miguel de Icaza talk about desktop apps for the web. At night we listened the GNOME band while enjoying the Istambul’s coastline … just a good day here

The last weekend I put my black hat on again. I was teaching network security at Master on Free Software talking and showing a lot of different and effective attacks targetting current networks with very practical examples.

Now, people attending those classes know about tactics and tools used by blackhats while breaking in real targets. We focused on different topics such as design flaws, protocol weakness, hijacking connections, fragmentation attacks, active/passive fingerprinting, switched sniffing, MITM attacks, advanced scanning and so far.

The next master class, scheduled on the 18th/July, we’ll see advanced and strategic defense for organizations. Among the practices we’re going to analyse real attacks and play dynamics group.

By the way, I’m blogging from Istanbul … see you guys at GUADEC!