latest news and participations from us
The Cyber Divisions Project organized with many volunteers a workshop in Jinja, Uganda for women and girls that wanted to learn how to code and make websites & mobile apps. The workshop was graced with 40 women that were eager to learn and to explore different aspects of programming, robotics and security. None of these girls had come across such an opportunity to attend an event like this. From ArtsSEC we started to support The Cyber Divisions two years ago sharing knowledge and materials for the communities.
CharruaCon is a security conference, held in Montevideo, Uruguay. ANTEL's bulding. CharruaCon is celebrating the 2nd Edition. It is a free event, which will be held in 2 days, May 24-25th, 2018. It seeks to generate awareness about security issues and bring the hacker philosophy closer to the organizations, encourage the reporting of responsible vulnerabilities and generate a collaborative environment in consideration of improving security at the national level. We invite all of you to participate, join us at .UY!
During May 15-16th, at the University of Palermo will be held the h4ck3d security conference, with two days of talks, with different topics. We will participate as speakers, together with other information security specialists. The main topics are: Cybersecurity, Security Management, CSIRT, Blockchain, Critical Infrastructures, Application Security. The Universidad de Palermo is located in Mario Bravo 1050, CABA, Argentina. You can find the agenda and talks available on the Official Website. Join us in 2nd edition of h4ck3d.
ArtsSEC participated in a new edition of OWASP Latam Tour in Buenos Aires. Maxi Soler, talked about Content Security Policy: common mistakes and lessons learned. The event was held at the Universidad Tecnologica Nacional. Students, developers, computer security experts and curious in general, shared with the OWASP community a new event. It was a full day of technical talks, in a relaxed and ideal environment to meet other people interested in application security. Argentina had 3 editions, Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Patagonia.
ParanaConf will celebrate the 1st Edition, March 29-30, in Parana, Entre Rios, Argentina. It is a new conference offering talks, demonstrations and workshops, covering all aspects of information technology and communications, from electronics to services. The topics expected to cover are related to networks, hardware and software, radio, systems administration, computer security, developrment, hacker philosophy and culture. It is a space where professionals, students or the general public can participate, share and learn together, join us and be part of this free and open event!
Join us in Bogotá, Colombia in March 7-8. Tactical Edge offers world-class content and the opportunity to be in contact during two days at Ágora Bogotá. At Tactical Edge you will hear about new and emerging technologies, trends, and receive practical recommendations from our invited experts. We hope to receive more than 300 professionals, 15 leading companies in the industry who will be present in the commercial area, and 12 renowned experts who will present topics such as Machine Learning, Artifical Intelligence, OSINT, Cloud Security, Social Engineering.
PampaSeg will celebrate its 9th edition, November 24-25th at the Centro Municipal de Cultura Quintana in Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina. PampaSeg is a space to share knowledge, make new friends and collaborate. The event is totally open and free. Since 2009, for 9 years constantly and uninterrupted PampaSeg has maintained the conviction of being able to make a great contribution to the community, bringing to all, dissertations on technological innovation and information security. We invite all of you to participate and contribute to the event!
After visiting 18 cities in 2017 Roadsec arrives in São Paulo for another historical edition: 5 tracks with awesome content and some of the biggest names in the area, shows Matanza, Raimundos, Dual Core, YTCracker and 10 other DJs, an arena with Robocore, the grand final of Hackaflag for Individual and Groups, 2 big areas with activities, communities, workshops. Roadsec SP will be held in Audio, Barra Funda, São Paulo the next November 11. Join us to the biggest hacker festival in Latin America!
8dot8 Lucky was the 7th Edition of the largest and oldest Computer Security Conference in Chile. This year the event was held during October in 4 countries, being Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Uruguay. ArtsSEC was there, we had the opportunity to enjoy the different talks and share knowledge among the Chilean community. Maxi Soler this year began to be part of the organization group. The conference gathered CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, ISOs, sysadmins, system architects, developers, specialists, consultants, students, hackers and geeks. Every year the conference is growing and offering more activities!
BHack Conference is an Information Security conference in Brazil that celebrates its 5th edition. The event will be held in Belo Horizonte and is consolidated in the national scenario as one of the most important annual conferences. The edition for 2017 of BHack will take place November 18th and 19th. During the two days of the event, the speakers will present different lectures in order to cover current and relevant topics. From ArtsSEC we want to invite you to participate and enjoy the activities offered by BHack Conference!
Maxi Soler, our CTO, will participate at the Nordic IT Security, in Stockholm, Sweden. The 10th edition will be held in Stockholmsmässan on November 7th, a full day of dynamic summit and exhibition area, where pioneers and leaders in Security exchange ideas, showcase products and develop partnerships in a creative collision of the best industry minds. Maxi will talk about Security in Docker: More than containers. Including benefits, how it works, testing a deployment and identify vulnerabilities before and after the implementation.
The University 21st Century (Spanish: Universidad Siglo 21, S21) from Buenos Aires, Argentina will be organizing an event Friday 15th, dedicated to Computer Law and Cybercrimes, with well-known professionals and specialists in cybercrime, new technologies and information security. Marcos (CEO) and Maxi (CTO) will talk about What we know about Ethical Hacking? sharing their knowledge and experience over the years. Universidad Siglo 21, created in 1995, is the largest university in Argentina private management.
ArtsSEC is going to Las Vegas, for Black Hat USA 2017 and DEF CON 25! For this edition Black Hat USA will be celebrating the 20th year at Mandalay Bay, offering Trainings (July 22-25) followed by the two-day main conference (July 26-27) featuring Briefings, Arsenal, Business Hall, and more; while DEF CON will (July 27-30) at Caesars Palace, with all the Hacker Community, technical talks, contests, workshops and villages. Find the agenda, activities, speaker list online for each event. Black Hat | DEF CON
ArtsSEC is sponsoring ROOTCON 11, the real hacking conference in the Philippines. ROOTCON 11 will be held in Taal Vista Hotel in Tagaytay on September 21-22, 2017. Maxi Soler, our CTO, has joined the CFP Review Board. The inception of ROOTCON was inspired due to the lack of legit security / hacking conference in the Philippines, the conference is fully inspired from the world's largest hacking conference in the world. ROOTCON has maintained its posture as the neutral grounds for the hacking community, both underground and the enterprise.
Andsec is a young hacking conference that gathers the different aspects of ITSec, from both defensive and offensive perspectives, contemplating a technical and philosophical approach. It is a place to learn, teach, make friends, and discover the potential of Infosec people from Argentina (and all over the world), while having fun and enjoying Buenos Aires. Maxi Soler, will be presenting his talk Security in Docker: More than containers. Including benefits, how it works, testing a deployment and identify vulnerabilities before and after the implementation.
Internet Day offers a congress, exhibition area with news, demos of products and services, also includes workshops and many other activities related to the Internet industry. We will participate moderating the debate about Cybercrime, as an activity of the moment in a digital economy. The debate will help to understand the risks, challenges and what is possible to do. Well-known and talented professionals will participate in the debate organized by CABASE. The event is held during two days and brings companies from the Internet industry.
SASO Conf is a computer conference held in Curuzu Cuatia (Corrientes, Argentina). It offers topics related to open technologies, network and computer security. The event has two full days of activities and has become a reference in the region. In its third edition, the conference has a main auditorium where the main talks are held, two classrooms to use as a workshop and labs simultaneously. ArtsSEC is sponsoring SASO Conf and we will participate giving talks and a workshop. SASO Conf is open and free to the general public.
1HackParaLosChicos is a project with solidarity purposes. Security professionals united from Argentina, creating and participating in events, to collect and donate food, clothing, personal hygiene products, etc. to different Non-Profit Organizations. ArtssEC Team is helping our friends to organize the next edition in Santa Fe, Argentina, in benefit of CENAELE, whose mission is to improve the quality of life of onco-haematological patients. Promoting access to adequate treatment, with no age or time limit. Providing to the patient and his family the best conditions of support and care.
ArtsSEC will be participating in the next OWASP Latam Tour, in Buenos Aires, Argentina next Friday 28 April 2017. The event will have talks with the following topics mobile applications, NoSQL, hardening Wordpress, BB84, SDLC, HTTP/2 and more. The objective is to raise awareness about application security in the Latin America region, so that people and organizations can make informed decisions about true application security risks. Everyone is free to participate in OWASP and all of our materials are available under a free and open software license.
ArtsSEC is supporting Cyber Divisions, a Non Profit Designed to Spread Information Security Education through learning programs, awareness, competitions, mentorship to identify and enable Africa's poorest Citizens to become cyber defenders that will protect Africa's Infrastructure. We believe that the Only Strategy to securing the future Africa is through Education and making Information Security Known. You can also help this project to grow and continue its purpose, donating material, give computer hardware equipment, designing a CTF and more.
Maxi Soler, our CTO, who also participates in ToolsWatch and Black Hat Arsenal will be in Singapore with the Arsenal Team, this 3rd edition will feature 24 open-source tool demos over the course of two days. Independent researchers will showcase their work while answering questions in a dynamic setting. So if you have the chance to attend Black Hat Asia, please stop by the Arsenal area to watch some mind blowing demos, some tools are new never presented before, see the agenda at Black Hat official website.
Marcos García (ArtsSEC – CEO) and Emiliano Piscitelli (VHGroup – CEO) will talk about “Security with Open Source Tools” in the VII National Meeting of Technicians of CABASE, held on 31st March and 1st April. They shall introduce the most common tools to perform Penetration Tests; how to mitigate said attacks; and best practices to avoid them. As usual, the event will gather the leading figures of Internet of our country, who will dissertate on Security, Internet of Things (IoT), IPv6, VOIP, Cyber Crime, OSPF, MPLS and VPLS in Mikrotik, among others.
The IAE Business School has a Program Management for Small and Medium Business (DPME), which consists of intensive training to strengthen management skills and abilities. The companies Kinkaya, VHGroup and ArtsSEC were invited at a breakfast organized by IAE Business School with the aim of sharing knowledge. Our contribution was related to the Digital Transformation and the aspects of Information Security. It was a very fun and dynamic talk where we were able to exchange experiences and the attendees answer their queries and learn more about infosec.
EKOParty takes place annually in Buenos Aires. In this event, attendees, guests, specialists and references on the subject from around the world, have the opportunity to engage with the latest technological innovations, vulnerabilities and tools, in a relaxed environment of knowledge sharing. Maxi Soler will be helping EKOParty with EKOLabs during two full days, in a dedicated with independent researchers showing their awesome tools for first time during the event in Ciudad Cultural Konex.
After participating in Chile’s 6th Edition, called "Resistencia" of 8.8 Computer Security Conference, we were invited to dissertate in Bolivia, in the city of La Paz, where the country’s 2nd edition was held. We shared our experience on HTTP/2, how it works, the benefits related to performance, improvements and differences from HTTP/1.1; finally, important considerations about its implementation, potential attacks and vulnerabilities found in this binary protocol. The conference gathered CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, ISOs, sysadmins, system architects, developers, specialists, consultants, students, hackers and geeks.
It had been a while since our last visit to Brazil. In this occasion we dissertated in the oldest Latin American event, the Hackers 2 Hackers Conference (H2HC), in San Pablo. This event gathered different researchers from the corporative world, research groups, underground communities and more. We were present to talk about HTTP/2, blow the dust off our Portuguese, and review the RFC 7540 that brings life to this new binary protocol. We presented its characteristics, differences from its previous version and new vectors of attack for this Internet protocol.
8.8 Computer Security Conference, is a computer security conference with several editions, organized in the beautiful city of Santiago, Chile. Its 6th Edition, called "Resistencia", was held in October 20-21, 2016. The attendees of this event were renowned local and international lecturers. It is considered the only 100% technical conference of this country. Maxi Soler, our CTO, attended the conference and shared his experiences about the HTTP/2 protocol, through his speech of "Knowing Security of HTTP/2", including multiplexing, HPACK, header compression, server push and more.
