We have reported that Filatelia and PontiRadio are crashing with iPhone OS 4.0. I had a debug of both having the same problem on an SDK API that have changed the behavior. I am working on the issue and I will release the newer version as soon as possible.

I think that BetterSoftware 2010 was a great conference. It was maybe more oriented to developers rather that what I’m used to, but I do appreciate the organization very much and the folks as well.

As far as my talk is concerned, thanks to anyone listening. The slides are available here, while official the link for the talk is here, I do expect that the guys from Develer are going to publish the video of the talk sooner or later.

My slides have been released for the OSS BarCamp in Dublin, here there are:

• File System Comparison
• OTP with Open Source Software
• Protecting confidential files with SE-Linux

Hope you enjoyed!

Slides are now available for the AIPSI Meeting of today on Cloud Computing and Security. Here’s the link:
http://www.gpaterno.com/publications/2010/AIPSI_Virt_April_2010.pdf

Wednesday May 5th 2010 I will host a presentation in Florence at the Better Software 2010 conference.
The title is “Enhanced SIM (ESIM): a proposal for mobile security” and will be at 15.55 in the Interactive track

I will host a presentation at AIPSI Meeting in Milan, April 13th 2010, Mondadori Center (via Marghera).

OSS Barcamp Saturday 17th April event will be held at the IBM offices located in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. It’s a kind of strange feeling because, as you know, I was working at IBM Ireland before going back to Italy. In that office, I held my last conference after I resigned.
I think that the faith have a great sense of humor ….

I will speak at the OSS-Lab seminar at Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland next Feb 4th 2010. The agenda and the details as following:

L’OSLab ha il piacere di invitarvi al seminario “La protezione dei dati” che si terrà giovedì 4 febbraio dalle 13:30 alle 16:30:
La protezione dei dati trattati attraverso sistemi informatici è un aspetto molto delicato e sempre attuale. In questo seminario metteremo a fuoco, nella prima parte, le ragioni che inducono a proteggere dati sensibili e in particolare verrà trattata la protezione dei dati nell’ambito dell’informatica medica. Dopo la tradizionale pausa caffè approfondiremo il tema attraverso l’analisi di alcuni strumenti open source. Il seminario si rivolge a tutti gli interessati.

L’iscrizione, gratuita ma obbligatoria, va effettuata entro il 02.02.2010. Per maggiori dettagli sul seminario e per iscriversi fare riferimento al seguente link: http://www.os-lab.org/node/17

Programma:

• 13:30 Registrazione
• 13:55 Benvenuto (Mauro Prevostini, coordinatore OSLab)
• 14:00 Perchè proteggere i dati (Alberto Ferrante, OSLab)
• 14:30 La protezione dei dati nell’ambito dell’informatica medica (Luca Mazzola, Politecnico di Milano & OSLab)
• 15:00 Pausa caffè
• 15:30 Strumenti OS x la protezione dei dati in ambito locale (Antonio Taddeo, OSLab)
• 16:00 Strumenti OS x la protezione dei dati in ambito remoto (Giuseppe Paternò, Red Hat e Trinity College Dublin)
• 16:30 Domande e chiusura

I was informed that United Nations is keeping an interesting set of courses in Torino (Italy) on computer security.

The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) was created to assist intergovernmental, governmental and non-governmental organizations in formulating and implementing improved policies in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice. The courses aim to address the new issues coming from the cyber crime: problems such as phishing, identity theft and subsequent fraud, electronic espionage and theft of service, malicious cracking, etc..

I think it can be worth participating and I am sure it’s an unique opportunity to get in touch with prime international security experts and compare his/her own experience.

More on: http://www.unicri.it/wwd/cybertraining/index.php

Oggi ho tenuto uno talk a ICT Security di Roma dal titolo “Secure wireless access in a mobile world“. Si tratta di una presentazione sui problemi di sicurezza relativi all’uso di dispositivi mobili, quali iPhone, Windows Mobile e Netbook, soprattutto nell’ottica di un accesso Wireless.

Il mercato sta evidenziando una enorme crescita della necessita’ di mobilita’ da parte del personale delle aziende. Devices quali netbook e cellulari basati su piattaforme evolute (Windows Mobile, iPhone, Android, …) stanno diventando la piattaforma di riferimento per tutte queste necessita’. Il responsabile della sicurezza si trova quindi a dover fronteggiare nuove sfide per l’accesso ai dati aziendali da parte di questi dispositivi.

Si ringraziano tutti coloro che hanno partecipato all’evento. Le slides sono disponibili al download qui o nella sezione “pubblicazioni” del sito.