Presented at the SERENE-RISC Spring Workshop 2016 The intersection of traditional professional investigations and cybercrime investigations. Professional investigators are finding they have to know more about cybercrime investigations and cybercrime investigators are discovering that they have to know more about the law and professional investigations. This presentation will discuss local and multinational investigations, who should …
Presented at GoSec 2017 Michael Joyce works on the many different aspects of the SERENE-RISC knowledge mobilization operations. He is the person behind the Network online knowledge-sharing platform and one of the driving forces behind the Cybersec 101 training. At SERENE-RISC, Michael is also responsible for the production of the quarterly knowledge digest. Before joining …
Presented at the SERENE-RISC Workshop – 2016 Spring The cyber-attacks targeting individuals and businesses worldwide continue to grow and wreak havoc. But one particular threat type clearly stands out from everything else we see today or had faced before. The file-encrypting ransomware has taken its victims by storm recently. It’s dominating the current threat landscape …
Presented at GoSec 2017 Jessica is an intelligence researcher/analyst with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). She has been with the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) since 1998 and joined the Operational Support Unit in 2006. Jessica has previously been involved in most aspects of the CAFC disruption program. Along with providing tactical support to law …
What can you learn from Tom, Thelma and Ed about privacy and the possible role of libraries in advocacy? Jonathon Hodge from the Toronto Public Library presents “Advocating for digital privacy: the centrality of public libraries in a uniquely 21st century struggle” at 2017 Access (http://accessconference.ca/2017program/). Presents the work happening at the Toronto Public Library …
Presented at the SERENE-RISC Workshop Spring 2016 The discussion of cybersecurity is highly complex and struggles with the ever increasing rate of sophisticated cyberattacks and digital exploitation. Cybersecurity continues to fall low in prioritization amongst executive management where there is a denial for a need of protection against such attacks. The discussion in today’s technological …
Presented at the SERENE-RISC Spring Workshop 2016. Fighting cybercrime and IT related crime has always been a question of cooperation, with the industry on one side mostly due to the needs of the investigators looking for trace evidence in networks, and with academia on the other side, when looking for appropriate training for law enforcement …
Presented at the Spring 2016 SERENE-RISC Workshop. Assembly code analysis is one of the critical processes for mitigating the exponentially increasing threats from malicious software. It is also a common practice for detecting and justifying software plagiarism and software patent infringements when the source code is unavailable. However, it is a manually intensive and time-consuming …
Mathieu Lavoie has a B.Eng. from the École de Technologie Supérieure (E.T.S.). He is a pentester and previously worked as a malware researcher at ESET as well as a computer security freelancer. During his free time, Mathieu is an avid participant of CTFs where he developed a deep love-hate relationship with Crypto Challenges or …
Presented at 2017 GoSec, 30 October 2017 Susan Munn has over 35 years of security and business risk management experience in law enforcement, government, and private sectors. She is CEO of her own firm, CompassQ Inc. and also recently named to the Advisory Board for PARM – Proactive Risk Management – an international …