Hi all - I will try and make it Monday as well! MSJ
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Lane Rasberry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Monika Sengul-Jones www.monikasengul.com (206) 715-2320 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
