The 16th DFN-CERT Workshop is over and it was again a very nice event. The talk about JBoss Application Server insecurities we gave seemed to be well received, as we got a lot of positive feedback. The German slides are now online at our publications page, btw.
The other talks were quite interesting, as always. Dr. Neil Long from Team Cymru gave a very informative keynote about the computer underground, not so much from an “I didn’t know this!” point of view but more because it was a nice wrap-up of the current situation. With a lot of interesting IRC conversations. I guess you have to play at least two years of online games before you have the adequate skills to write in the same language as those guys and girls. The way 1337 sp33k is going scares me…
Anyway, lots of familiar faces and interesting conversations with people mostly coming from a university background, working in the data centers. The broad attack surface of a university network gives them quite a lot to do in the security sector, so it’s always interesting to hear their stories. The social event at the Gröninger Braukeller in the evening of the first day is also quite legendary by now ;).
We are of course planning to go there again next year, hopefully with a new topic for a talk.
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