FOSSMeet is the annual Free and Open source software meet at NIT Calicut. We are inviting proposals for talks and workshops at FOSSMeet 2017.
Through FOSSMeet, we intend to get the attendees, mostly students, get started with the development and usage of free software. You may propose to conduct a lecture, demo, tutorial, workshop, discussion or panel at FOSSMeet. If the contents of your session is the ‘I am feeling lucky’ result of some Google search, there is low probability that it’ll be accepted. Same applies to proposals titled ‘The absolute beginner introduction to X’ and others on a similar line. On the other hand, if your talk is on some obscure, albeit important, free software project that will go over most students head, this might not be the best platform to deliver that talk. There are always exceptions and we leave that to your judgement. If our audience wants it, we’ll try our best to accommodate it. Of course, if you find people interested in your proposal, you can always call a BoF. We are all for BoF’s! :)
Take the above with a pinch of salt. They are no s̶t̶r̶i̶c̶t̶ ̶r̶u̶l̶e̶s̶, only guidelines. All your proposals are welcome and we celebrate every single one that we receive! :D Looking forward to see you folks here.
Your audience (mostly) comprises of smart, above average, GNU/Linux aware students.
Call for proposals opens: Oct 27, 2016
Proposal submission deadline: Jan 15, 2017
Proposal acceptance: Jan 20, 2017
Presentation upload: Feb 15, 2017
For more information about speaking and proposals, contact speakers@fossmeet.in.
Siddharth Muralee
@tr3x
Submitted Nov 27, 2016
Today, the necessity of strong cybersecurity measures is self evident. A proliferation of cyber attacks is causing increasing damage to companies, governments and individuals.. Organizations need to respond to this increased threat by adopting strict cybersecurity measures. And the awareness should begin with programmers.
Learn how your mistakes get exploited by Hackers and how to take necessary precautions to prevent your organisation getting compromised.
Should I really learn how to code safe? How big of a mistake must I make to get hacked?
It is the small parts of the code that a programmer doesn’t notice or ignores that in the end leads to the program/site getting exploited. The mistake you made which we call as a vulnerablity would be so small that any amateur programmer may ignore while writing or reviewing the code.
How much destruction can a vulnerablity cause ?
The StuxNet a malware which used four vulnerablities in the Windows operating system managed to get access into the Iran nuclear facility and destory one-fifth of its centrifuges, slowing down the Iran nuclear program by years. It also managed to spread through the internet and affect millions of countries worldwide.
Won’t the “Cyber Security Professionals” take care of it ?
Actually the Cyber Security Professionals are very few when compared to the needs of the Software and IT industry. “The demand for the (cybersecurity) workforce is expected to rise to 6 million (globally) by 2019, with a projected shortfall of 1.5 million,” stated Michael Brown, CEO at Symantec, the world’s largest security software vendor.
The Talk will be about:
A deep desire to learn new stuff and to code better and safer.
I am currently pursuing a B.Tech in Computer Science at Amrita School of Engineering , Amritapuri.
I am a Foss and Security Enthusiast, mainly into Reverse Engineering, Binary Exploitation and Cryptography.
I am a member of team Bi0s. We are currently the top CTF team in India ahead of IITs, NITs and BITS. Currently ranked 65th in the world by ratings given by CTFtime.org.
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