Mon 10 Oct 2016, 8:30pm | Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College
Matthew Garrett (CoreOS) speaks on
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The modern world keeps giving us demonstrations of governments finding new and exciting ways to spy on computers. It’s unlikely that you’ll be the target of any of this surveillance, but where governments start, criminals probably won’t be too far behind. We’ll talk about some of the more unsettling attacks seen in the past few years, but also discuss some of the things normal users can do to protect against them.
Securing computers from highly skilled attackersThe modern world keeps giving us demonstrations of governments finding new and exciting ways to spy on computers. It’s unlikely that you’ll be the target of any of this surveillance, but where governments start, criminals probably won’t be too far behind. We’ll talk about some of the more unsettling attacks seen in the past few years, but also discuss some of the things normal users can do to protect against them.
Matthew GarrettCoreOS Matthew Garrett (screenname: mjg59) is a kernel developer who is a major contributor to CoreOS, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and many other projects. He did his PhD in genetics here in Cambridge (which explains the screenname!), where he worked with fruitflies. When not watching "Hackers" or replying to tons to emails, Matthew likes to exploit security systems of hotels with Android-enabled light switches and blog about it (http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/40505.html). He was awarded the Free Software Award from the Free Software Foundation for his work on Secure Boot, UEFI, and the Linux kernel.
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