News & Events
December 20, 2011 - BugCON 2012 Special Edition Announcement
BugCon committee has finally marked the dates of February 2nd and 3rd 2012 to carry out the Security Conference at CFIE, Centro de Formación e Innovación Educativa del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico. This special edition has a slogan known as "I WANT YOU @ BugCon 2012". For more information, visit here.
September 26, 2011 - QA&TEST 2011, 10th International Conference on Software QA and Testing
Our founder Mr. Shakeel Ali has been invited as a speaker in QA&TEST 2011, 10th International Conference on Software QA and Testing on Embedded Systems. His vision and research will point the technical vulnerabilities and threats that exist in our national infrastructure (networked embedded systems). The title of the presentation has been designated as "Critical Infrastructure Assessment Techniques to Prevent Threats & Vulnerabilities". More information can be found here.
July 19, 2011 - BugCON 2011 has been cancelled
Due to unpredictable chain of events, the BugCon committee has decided to cancel the conference and re-schedule it for the early next year. All the relevant details will be announced in the coming months.
April 14, 2011 - BugCON 2011 Call For Papers Announcement
This year's BugCon Security Conference will take place on 5th-7th October at CFIE, Centro de Formación e Innovación Educativa del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City. You can get the description on Call for papers announcement from here
February 9, 2011 - CNN Mexico, Special Coverage by Resistencia Cibernética Mexicana (RCN)
Recently, Armin Garcia has been invited to talk and discuss the security state of Government systems following the security breach at Guerrero and the National Council for Culture and Arts (Conaculta) [Spanish: Guerrero y el Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Conaculta)] at CNN, Mexico. The press release and media coverage has been published online here (Spanish version). For English translation please click here
December 7, 2010 - Short article on Hardening Internet Business: Fighting Online Identity Theft and Fraud
Take a break and review your technical security controls hanging over e-commerce platform. This short technical paper will point and advise on the most common set of security threats that may lead to identity theft and fraud. Get the article here
November 16, 2010 - Smart Grid Security Presentation from BugCon 2010 added
A well versed presentation from BugCon 2010 "NextGen War Tactics: Practicing The Black Art Of Smart Grid Technology For Revenge Or Justice" has been added. You can download it from here
October 9, 2010 - BugCon 2010 First Day Speaker
As a prominent leader in security industry, Cipher Storm is gracefully coordinating this year's BugCon 2010 event in Mexico. The schedule for three-days conference has already been published here. Our key presentation on "NextGen War Tactics: Practicing The Black Art Of Smart Grid Technology For Revenge Or Justice" will be highlighting the weaknesses and vulnerabilities discovered in most Smart Grid technologies. The presentation has been scheduled on October 27, 2010 - 17:00.
May 9, 2010 - Article on Addressing the Inconsistency in Software Security Requirements
A recent publication of SecurityActs magazine has included number of interesting articles from worldwide security professionals. One of such article has been contributed by Mr. Shakeel Ali, mainly focusing on software security requirements and their inconsistencies within software development process. Get a copy of an article here
February 22, 2010 - BugCon 2010 Call For Papers Announcement
BugCon 2010 Security Conference will take place on 27-29th October at CFIE, Centro de Formación e Innovación Educativa del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico. The description on Call for papers announcement can be found here
February 20, 2010 - InfoKomputer Article pointing 2010 Security Challenges
An extensive and handful guide will focus on 2010 security challenges across multiple sectors. Topics under discussion involve threat landscape in 2009, facts and figures for highest to lowest rated threats, IT Security market and forecasts and the challenges that industry is likely to face. For more information, Click here
January 4, 2010 - Malware research report by Dinesh Theerthagiri
Our malware researcher Mr. Dinesh Theerthagiri from Linköping University has finally concluded
his research on "Reversing Malware: A detection intelligence with in-depth security analysis".
A report presents the exclusive malware detection techniques that can examine and detect
many modern malware types. The paper accomplishes the practice of unique research methodology,
distinguish the malware families with well-defined characteristics, demonstrate the detection
mechanisms, illustrate the attack trends in e-Banking systems, exhibit case study analysis
of SilentBanker trojan and extract the best-of-breed tools to detect, identify and monitor
the malware activity in a controlled environment. To access the report, Click here
September 8, 2009 - Media interview on "IT Security - What it Takes to be successful"
The President of OdinJobs, Mr. Naveen Bala has recently interviewed Mr. Shakeel Ali, our CTO and CEO, in a joint evaluation of
IT security market trends. The vision of this collective interview from industry leading experts is to give in-depth overview of skills, knowledge and experience required to deal with technical and managerial goals. The interview has been titled "IT Security - What it Takes to be successful". For more information, Click here
September 1, 2009 - Publication with InfoKomputer Magazine
Our security guru Mr. Shakeel Ali has recently announced to publish an interesting article for the security professionals based in Indonesia. "Reversing The Malware: A Manual and Automated Detection Approach" will highlight the latest research and analysis techniques used by industry professionals to fight against 0-day malware threat. It will be coming out on September issue through famous Indonesian Magazine Publisher, Prima Infosarana Media PT (InfoKomputer).
August 17, 2009 - BugCon 2009 Security Conference, Excélsior Mexico Media Coverage
Get the highlights on our recent BugCon 2009 security conference through media coverage report of Excélsior Mexico Online. Read more
June 7, 2009 - BugCon'09 Updates
BugCon'09 committee has finally announced to resume the conference on August 12th to 14th, 2009. For more information visit BugCon Website
May 31, 2009 - BugCon'09 Paused
A well known disease "Swine influenza" has caused to pause the BugCon'09 operation. The organizing committee will announce the future dates soon.
March 26, 2009 - Cipher Storm Ltd partnered at BugCon 2009 Mexico
Cipher Storm has become an official partner at BugCon 2009 Security Conference this year. Mr. Armin Garcia, as an organizer will be presenting Cipher Storm in the corporate track. He will be representing on behalf of Mr. Shakeel Ali (CEO/CTO), his presentation will highlight Cipher Storm interests, market trends and drivers, research, consultancy and training services. Conference will be commenced on June 24th to June 26th, 2009. More info at BugCon Website
March 15, 2009 - Cipher Storm sponsor a security researcher at Linköping University, Sweden
Cipher Storm has shown an active role in information security world by supporting a sponsorship for a researcher at Linköping University, Sweden. Mr. Dinesh Theerthagiri will be working towards advanced malware analysis and detection intelligence techniques. His research will provide comprehensive framework which will benefit commercial and non-commercial anti-malware solution providers. |
