BristolR Remote June 2020

Whether you're an R newbie or experienced Data Scientist, all are welcome at Bristol R. Welcome to our second online meetup!

7:00pm - 8:00pm Talks

7.00pm Mohamed El Fodil Ihaddaden - Reveal shiny elements when they scroll into view with scrollrevealR.

7.30pm Colin Gillespie - Jumping Rivers (jumpingrivers.com) - R and Security

Data science using R is increasing performed in the cloud or over a network. But how secure is this process? In this talk, we won't look at complex hacking but instead, focus on the relatively easy hacks that can be performed to access systems. We'll use three R related examples of how it is possible to access a users system. In the first example, we'll investigate domain squatting on the Bioconductor website. By registering only thirteen domains, we had the potential to run arbitrary on hundreds of users. In the second example, we'll look at techniques for guessing passwords on RStudio server instances. Lastly, we'll highlight how users can be a little too trusting when running R code from blogs.

Bristol R User Group is proudly sponsored by Unai, the R Consortium, and Ovo Energy who are our venue sponsor when we're back to running these in person!