Presentations
The following are presentations that have been conducted by the secau – Security Research Centre.
12th March 2010 – Open Source Intelligence: Tradecraft & Tools
There has never been anything in the history of humankind that comes close to the ability of the Internet to reach to almost every part of the globe. But, as with all new technologies, it comes at a cost—many costs, in fact.
The first Google index in 1998 captured 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. In 2009 the Google Index hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!
It has been argued that we pay for the benefits of the Internet less in terms of money and more in terms of the currencies of our age: time, energy, and privacy.
With all that information out there, the trick is knowing what you are looking for and where to find it. This workshop has been designed specifically for Law Enforcement and Intelligence Practitioners to provide a better understanding of the tools and techniques of Open Source Research.
11th February 2010 - VoiP Something old something new
Over 30 years ago the “holy grail of hackers was the compromise and utilisation of PABX systems to enable free phone calls for voice and of course data at that stage. In response to this phenomenon PABX systems became increasingly secure and less able to be compromised. Now some 30 years on we now have home ADSL accounts with VoIP devices used for telephony, we appear to have learned little. There has been an attendant increase in network scanning activity that looks for available or VoIP systems. This talk will look at some of the tools and techniques being used by attackers to compromise these systems. The talk will also explore motivations for the attacks. Download Powerpoint
Upcoming Presentations for 2010
April – Terrorist Planning and Detection – Cameron Taylor, WA Police
May – Michael Crowley, ECU
June – Ken Fowle, Department of Mines & Petroleum
July – “Crossing the Great Divide” Managing information security from the business perspective – Robyn Hernaman, Woodside Energy Ltd
August – David Cook, ECU
September – Trish Williams, ECU
October – Patryk Szewcyk – ECU