Ontology-based Representation for Assurance and Compliance
Presenter: Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen University
AI-Supported Eliminative Argumentation: Practical Experience Generating Defeaters to Increase Confidence in Assurance Cases
Presenter: Torin Vigor, University of Toronto
Promises, Promises: AI and Certification
Presenter: Bill Scherlis, CMU
People struggle to produce good assurance cases… ..would AI do any better?
Presenter: Robin Bloomfeld, City University and Adelard LLP
Safety Engineering Challenges in LLM Era
Presenter: Ramesh S, General Motors R&D
Blue Team Con 2025
Blue Team Con 2025 takes place at the Fairmont Chicago, IL, with training sessions on September 4–5 and the main conference on September 6–7, 2025.
What It’s About
As the only in-person conference focused entirely on cybersecurity defenders, Blue Team Con gathers over 850 professionals—including SOC analysts, threat hunters, incident responders, and defensive developers—to share knowledge through hands-on training, villages, and talks.
Key Highlights
NSA, CISA, and FBI Warn of Potential Foreign Cyber Campaigns Targeting U.S. Infrastructure
NSA, CISA, and FBI Warn of Potential Foreign Cyber Campaigns Targeting U.S. Infrastructure
The NSA, CISA, FBI, and DoD’s DC3 released a joint Cybersecurity Information Sheet titled "Iranian Cyber Actors May Target Vulnerable U.S. Networks and Entities of Interest." The agencies caution that, despite an ongoing ceasefire, Iranian-affiliated threat actors—including state-sponsored groups and hacktivists—could soon launch disruptive campaigns against U.S. networks, particularly those with out-of-date systems or weak credentials.
Key Risks Highlighted:
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DEF CON 33 Hacking Conference 2025
Mark your calendars for DEF CON 33!
Taking place in Las Vegas from August 7–10, 2025, this is one of the world’s largest and most respected hacker conventions.
This year’s event includes dedicated sessions, workshops, and CTFs centered around memory corruption, exploit mitigations, and secure systems engineering:
Kawaiicon 2025
Join the next Kawaiicon, New Zealand’s premier hacker conference, happening November 6–8, 2025 in Wellington. This year’s edition dives deep into modern exploit techniques, particularly automated memory corruption attacks and emerging mitigation strategies in native languages and runtimes.
Why it matters for SoS‑VO: