Forthcoming talk

Hacking the Internet of Things (IoT)

Thursday 14 May 2015

8.00pm at the offices of Sopra Steria, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 7AH

The IoT is a paradigm of how devices are now interconnected by various media to each other locally and across the Internet, allowing them to exchange information or to interact with us. You can control the heating in your home from a smartphone or monitor the hundreds of buoys free floating in ocean currents. IoT has great potential for aiding both us and malicious activities. This talk discusses the IoT and its potentials, followed by discussions and demonstrations of how the IoT can be hacked to reveal details of our interactions or take control of the environment around us.

It includes a demonstration of RFID can be compromised by looking at an attack on a RFID based door access controller.

RFID Cloner

RFID Door COntroller

The event is being organised by the Hertfordshire branch of the BCS, details of the talk are on their event page

If you wish to attend this meeting, please would you book your places using this booking link.

Talk: Hacking the Internet of Things

I will be giving an introductory level talk titled Hacking the Internet of Things on Tuesday 13th May, details are available on the Bedfordshire branch of the BCS.

http://www.beds.bcs.org.uk/events.php

If you wish to attend you need to pre-book using the BCS event booking system https://events.bcs.org/book/1063/

Description of the talk

The Internet of Things describes a paradigm of how electronic devices including everyday items are now interconnected by various media to each other locally and across the Internet. This allows them to exchange information and to interact with us in order to make life easy. You can now control the heating in your home from a smart phone app or monitor the movement of hundreds of buoys free floating in ocean currents from anywhere in the world.

RFID Controlled Door lock

The Internet of Things has great potential for aiding us. However the potential for malicious activities is just as great. This talk discusses the Internet of Things and its potential. This will be followed by discussions and demonstrations of how the Internet of Things can be hacked to reveal details of our interactions or to take control of the environment around us.

New Talk being developed

Been asked to give a talk on Internet Security to a group of  Occupational Health and Safety professional at one of their safety association meetings, so the talk will be low level on the technicality but the synopsis of the talk is given below

Title: How the web hacks you

The internet has become a feature of all our lives whether at work or at home. Recent developments such as cloud services and the government's push to move its activities online mean that more and more in our personal and work life we are conducting transactions over the web. The web has made a wide range of interactions from finding information to purchasing and banking activities so much more convenient for us. However it has also made it easier for us as individuals and organisations to be attacked via the web with phishing, scams, malware and hacking occurring. Not a day goes past when some form of attack via the web is reported in the news. This talk will outline the reasons why the web is vulnerable, explain some of the more frequent attacks and suggests countermeasures that make it less likely you will be hacked via the web.

WiFi talk Feb 2013

Received some pictures of the talk I did in Feb this year to the Bedford branch of the BCS at Bedford College.

"WiFi Networks: The Practicalities of Implementing A WiFi Network" is the topic of a talk by Geraint Williams, Information Risk Consultant and Trainer, IT Governance Ltd., and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire.

Secure configuration is becoming ever more important as an increasing number of devices are incorporating wireless technology - from laptops, smartphones, tablets, projectors and cameras, to multimedia entertainment systems and games consoles. The growing demand for allowing BYOD ("Bring Your Own Device") within the corporate network means that larger numbers of organisations are implementing wireless networks.

The wireless network standard 802.11 was originally released in 1997 by the IEEE and, by computing timescales, is a mature technology with a large base of manufacturers and both commercial and domestic users. Despite initiatives like Wireless Protected Setup (WPS) to make installation easier, there are still issues in implementing a network using wireless technology in both the corporate and home environments.

The courts have already convicted paedophiles for piggybacking neighbours wireless networks to download material, and hackers for using wireless networks for pirating software, music and films and for spying on occupants using their own security cameras.

Wireless networks have a history of security problems with flaws in the implementation of WEP and recently with WPS. This talk will look at these issues, the (open source) tools that can be used, and how these apply to the wireless environment. The talk will include practical demonstrations of the tools and techniques discussed in the presentation and will unravel the alphabetic soup of the available standards.

Talk at Bedford College 28th June

A bit of blatent promoting of a talk I'm doing at Bedford College on the 28th June.

Hollywood Effect on Digital Forensics

The success of forensics-based dramas like CSI, Numb3rs, and NCIS has ensured there is no shortage of applicants to study forensics. Hollywood and its public are enamoured by the apparently supernatural potency of the discipline. This talk looks at Hollywood and the TV interpretation of digital forensics and gives an insight into how it is really done.

If you want to attend please book online at www.bedfordtrainingservices.co.uk/forensics