Personal Security + Hacking with hardware

Personal security

You are one of the most significant security threats to your company. We all know we are going to fix better passwords / encryption / firewalls / etc. one day. Getting properly hacked is one of those things that is a lot more comfortable to prevent beforehand than to gather the shattered pieces afterwards. In this talk, we will take a practical approach to good personal digital security. We will start with the easy parts before drilling through the layers of security, down to the parts that are unpredictable and dangerous. Bring your laptop and a tin foil hat.

Topics include: What it's like to get properly hacked. Using password managers. Operating system security. Browser security. Encryption, firewalls, factors, and other means of protection.

Michael Johansen is a software consultant at Knowit during the day and a startup founder during the night. At NTNU I studied entrepreneurship, computer science and psychology. During my studies I also took a year off to be a board member at NTNU's Board of Directors. As part of my startup venture I've gotten first-hand experience with the startup scene in both Boston and in Silicon Valley. Humans and machines are the two things that interest me the most. I'm a bit systematic.
I care more than most people about personal security, and it's a topic on which I'd like to share my insights.

Hacking with Hardware: Tools for Physical Intrusion and Persistent Network Access

Reading about the latest zero-day vulnerabilities can be fun (or scary), but what about known vulnerabilities from years or even decades ago? When it comes to technologies like USB, wireless mice and access cards, many old vulnerabilities are still around, largely ignored in risk assessments and easier than ever to exploit in style, due to the availability of versatile, low-cost hardware gadgets. If humans are tool-using animals, hackers are gadget-using humans.In this presentation attendees will see examples of real physical and short range wireless attacks that will work against most organizations to bypass security controls and gain persistent physical access to the target facility and its network. Yes, billions of people can attack you from the Internet—that doesn’t mean you should forget about the ones who walk through the front door.

Ryan Mattinson is a penetration tester and managing consultant in KPMG Norway's cyber defence practice. He will share stories from the trenches and introduce some of his favorite gadgets anyone can buy online or easily build at home to get into a target organization's buildings and onto their network.