Posts tagged 'securi-tay'

Another year, another Securi-Tay, another talk... and this time we're sponsoring the bar!

Another year has rolled by (damn, I really don’t update this blog much, do I?) and Securi-Tay IV is coming up. I’ll be speaking about security issues related to serialisation and deserialisation of data in modern programming languages, including PHP and C#. My colleague FreakyClown will be talking about robbing banks for a living, which promises to be amusing at the very least (which reminds me - ask me about coathangers and server rooms when you see me). Most importantly though: we (and by that I mean...

Talking about crypto at Securi-Tay 2014 (Dundee, Scotland)

I’m doing a talk about cryptography at Securi-Tay 2014 on the 15th of January, up in Dundee, Scotland. The talk is aimed at people who are interested in cryptography from a practical perspective, but are put off by the slew of hieroglyphs and maths-speak that tends to plague the field. The talk is entitled “Breaking bad crypto without breaking your brain”. I promise that there are no Breaking Bad references in there, primarily because I seem to be the only person on earth that still hasn’t started watching...