Great! I will be there! Monday, April 16, 2018 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM Surf Incubator 999 3RD Avenue Suite 700 · Seattle, WA
<https://www.meetup.com/TA3M-SEA/events/qqffppyxgbwb/> Thanks On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Lee Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 04/13/2018 04:33 AM, Lane Rasberry wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am in Seattle [...] > > Is anyone free and interested to meet up at any time Monday [...] > > 3rd Mondays is, of course, TA3M Seattle, SURF Incubator downtown. > > All from Wikipedia are invited. > > Lane was one of the first people that helped me get TA3M organized, with > local contacts, though he was in NY. > > Details: > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [ta3m-seattle-announce] We're on for Monday April 16 TA3M: > Firmware Security and SPC, Emerald Onion Updates > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:26:16 -0700 (PDT) > From: Paul English <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Paul English <[email protected]> > To: Seattle Privacy <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected], > [email protected] > > > ...and also thanks to TA3M organizers, we've also got a meetup.com > thingie. > > Join us on Meetup.com! > https://www.meetup.com/TA3M-SEA/ > (note: RSVPing via meetup.com will assist with food and space planning. > If you’d rather not use meetup.com, a more private / secure channel RSVP > would be welcome) > > > https://www.meetup.com/TA3M-SEA/events/qqffppyxgbwb/ > https://seattleprivacy.org/event/ta3m-seattle-for-april- > 2018-firmware-security/ > > TA3M Seattle for April 2018: Firmware Security and SPC, Emerald Onion > Updates > April 16 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm > Event Navigation > « TA3M Seattle for March 2018: Securing the 2020 Election Process > April 16 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm > > SURF Incubator > 999 3rd Ave Suite 700 > Seattle, 98104 United States > > 6:30 – 7 Casual chat, Cryptoparty / PGP key exchange / Signal > Verification, Intro slide(s) > > We’ll have pizza! ** > > ============ > > 7-7:30 Emerald Onion Update > > Emerald Onion has been online for 10 months now! They will provide an > update of current work, and future ideals. More info at > https://emeraldonion.org/ > > 7:30 – 8:00 Seattle Privacy Coalition General Meeting / Update > > SPC Topic(s) TBA > 8:00-9:00 – Firmware Malware Self-Defense > > Paul English and Lee Fisher, PreOS Security > > For attackers, platform firmware is the new software. > > Activists, journalists, lawyers – regardless of your threat model, the > first steps are to secure the operating system, passwords / phrases, use > 2 factor authentication and disk encryption. > > Firmware security is an advanced topic, but well worth understanding, > particularly with data on portable devices and the risk of the Evil Maid > Attack. > > Most systems include hundreds of firmwares – UEFI or BIOS, PCIe > expansion ROMs, USB controller drivers, s torage controller host and > disk/SSD drivers. Firmware-level hosted malware, bare-metal or > virtualized, is nearly invisible to normal security detection tools, has > full control of your system, and can often continue running even when > the system is “powered off”. Security Firms (eg, “Hacking Team” sell > UEFI 0days to the highest bidder), and government agencies include > firmware-level malware (eg, Wikileak’ed Vault7 CIA EFI malware). > Defenders need to catch-up, and learn to defend their systems against > firmware-level malware. In this presentation, we’ll cover the NIST SP > (147,147b,155,193) secure firmware guidance, for citizens, rather than > vendors/enterprises. We’ll discuss the problem of firmware-level > malware, and cover some open source tools (FlashROM, CHIPSEC, etc.) to > help detect malware on your system. We’llbe discussing a new open source > tool we’ve just released to help make it easier for you to do this check. > > Paul is CEO and Lee is CTO of PreOS Security, a local firmware security > startup focused on helping enterprises defend their systems firmware. > Lee co-founded TA3M Seattle, Paul is one of TA3M Seattle’s main > organizers. PreOS Security has been funding TA3M’s pizza up until recent > Cloudflare transition > > ============= > > Pizza sponsored by Cloudflare. > > https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-wants-to-buy-your- > meetup-group-pizza/ > > Be prepared that there will be an opt-out group photo, taken from the > back of the room to fulfill the sponsorship requirements. > -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
