Month: August 2016

Bitcoin: An impartial assessment of its use and potential for cybercrime

In this video, Prof. Jeremy Clark defines what bitcoin is, how it is used and its relation to cybercrime. This talk was presented in Toronto on May 31, 2016, at the SERENE-RISC Tutorial “Examining Cybercrime 2: Financial Edition”. Jeremy takes something mystical and clearly explains it. There’s this data structure which you may have heard …

Autonomous Hacking ?

DARPA held their cyber grand challenge in Las Vegas last week.  The challenge pitted 7 autonomous security systems against each other in a Capture The Flag Competition.  The winning system then went on to compete in DEFcon’s regular CTF against human competition and did as well as was expected (dead last). The job of commentating 7 …