CanSecWest talk on infrastructure attacks canceled after being classified

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http://blogs.csoonline.com/security-industry/3050/cansecwest-talk-infrastructure-attacks-canceled-after-being-classified

By Steve Ragan
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CSO Online
March 09, 2014

Eric Filiol, head of the Operational Cryptography and Computer Virology 
lab hosted by ESIEA in Laval, France, was scheduled to give a talk on 
Friday at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.

However, that talk has been canceled after reviewers in the intelligence 
community deemed it a security risk.

In addition to censoring the talk, they also threatened legal action 
against the conference and presenters.

In a brief post on the subject, Dragos Ruiu, the founder and organizer of 
CanSecWest, outlined the basics.

  "The French Dept. of Interior (their DHS equivalent) and the U.S. DoD
  have decided that Eric Filiol's material about network attacks on
  infrastructure is too dangerous, so they have classified it, disallowing
  its presentation, and to punctuate their desires with an exclamation
  point, rattling sabers about prosecution and lawsuits of conference
  organizers and presenters.

  To which I'd like to remind everyone concerned: 'Security by Obscurity,
  is not much Security at all.' Hiding vulnerability information hinders
  solutions and mitigation more than it hinders attackers."

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