🕹️ SecTalks :: Hackers & Defenders of the "Cyber" Security Arena

Topic of the month: Reasonably Secure Boot Setup 🔐💻 (Bricking your laptop speedrun!) 🚀

Full disk encryption is great, but is it enough? What happens when someone gets five minutes alone with your laptop? Enter the world of Evil Maid attacks – where having your data encrypted doesn't necessarily mean your machine is safe!

In this month's SecTalks Holland session, we'll dive into the chain of trust that keeps our machines booting securely (or at least, that's the idea!). From firmware and Secure Boot to signed kernel images and the TPM, we'll explore what actually happens before your operating system even starts, and how attackers might take advantage of it!

We'll look at how to take control of our own Secure Boot keys, rather than blindly trusting the default vendor and Microsoft keys. And of course, what better way to learn than by doing? We'll walk through a reasonably secure boot setup live on a VM (hopefully without bricking anything!), followed by attack demos against the boot chain to see how our defenses hold up!

A practical guide will be shared afterwards, so you can give it a try yourself (at your own risk ^_^).

Whether you're curious about how computers establish trust during boot, or just harbor a healthy distrust of big vendors and default keys, this session is for you!

See you all there!

THEME:
Let's meet for an informative session where you can ask security experts any questions you have in your mind no mater how basic or advanced that is. Every month we try to have a different topic, and there's always time to discuss anything important to you as well!

FAQ:
▶️ The heck is SecTalks?
✔️ SecTalks meetups are about participating in information and cyber security discussions, learning from others, and improving problem-solving skills.

▶️ Where & When is this event? What?
✔️ Every LAST Thursday of the month 18:30 at CIC Rotterdam, (along the Venture Cafe / GHG drinks); SecTalks continues as usual & we still meet at the same place! Doors open at 17:30 - drinks and snacks provided!

▶️ I want to speak at your talk
✔️ Cool, message us here on Meetup.com and get in touch, or on twitter, or be creative!

▶️ Does it cost me something?
✔️ No.

▶️ Cool idea, I want to sponsor the event.
✔️ If you want to sponsor these sessions please get in touch via messages or on twitter with the organizers, Nicolas @nicolasnow

SecTalks takes place at the CIC innovation community - and part of the Venture Cafe Rotterdam gathering which is now (temporarily?) on halt.

Doors for SecTalks open at 17:30 we have drinks (and some snacks). SecTalks session starts at 18:30. If you are there earlier, drop a line so we can connect and socialize more.

Notes:
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