NorthSec Courses

How Crypto Gets Broken - by You

Explore the world of cryptography with NorthSec's workshop. Learn about encryption, cyphers, hashes, and how to break them in a 3-4 hour live stream.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Unicode Vulnerabilities That Could Byte You

Learn about the security implications of Unicode character transformations, including normalization and capitalization, in this less than 1-hour talk by Philippe Arteau from NorthSec.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Regions Are Types, Types Are Policy, and Other Ramblings

Explore the use of types in compilers and interpreters for software hardening measures with NorthSec. Learn to apply policies across address spaces and protect against memory vulnerabilities. Less than 1 hour.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

IOMMU and DMA Attacks

Explore Direct Memory Access (DMA) attacks and Input Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) functioning in this less than 1-hour material by NorthSec. Learn about IOMMU integration within major operating systems and DMA attack strategies.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

High Speed Fingerprint Cloning - Myth or Reality

Explore the security implications of fingerprint cloning with 3D printers in this under 1-hour presentation by NorthSec. Learn about real-world attack scenarios and the sophistication needed to execute them.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Stay Quantum Safe - Future-Proofing Encrypted Secrets

Explore quantum-safe cryptography with Christian Paquin from Microsoft Research. Learn about its development, standardization, implementation, and integration in TLS, SSH, and VPN in under 1 hour.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Long Journey to a Multi-Architecture Disassembler

Learn about multi-architecture disassembling in less than an hour with Joan Calvet, a developer and reverse-engineer, in this NorthSec offering.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Practical Uses of Program Analysis - Automatic Exploit Generation

Learn practical uses of program analysis, including Instrumentation, Symbolic and Concolic Execution, from NorthSec. Understand how to automatically generate exploits against complex applications in under an hour.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Inter VM Data Exfiltration - The Art of Cache Timing Covert Channel on x86 Multi-Core

Explore the art of cache timing covert channels on x86 multi-core with NorthSec. Learn techniques, challenges, and countermeasures in less than an hour.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Privacy, Surveillance & Oversight

Explore the history of privacy legislation in the U.S. and Canada, understand government surveillance practices, and delve into the principles that check surveillance in this less than 1-hour material from NorthSec.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

NorthSec 2015 - Jean Francois Cloutier & Francois Gagnon - CHEKS

Explore the science and technology behind the chaotic encryption key system (CHEKS) with NorthSec. Learn its concept, properties, and see a basic chat application demo.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Threat Modeling for the Gaming Industry

Learn about threat modeling in the gaming industry with NorthSec. Understand client-side logic, network protocols, and user account management in under an hour.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

OO RE with HexraysCodeXplorer

Explore the challenges of reversing object-oriented code in modern malware with NorthSec's under 1-hour material. Learn various approaches and tools for code reconstruction.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Hopping on the CAN Bus

Learn to hack your car's Controller Area Network (CAN) bus with an open-source toolkit in this less than 1-hour talk by NorthSec.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Post-Quantum Manifesto

Learn about post-quantum cryptography from Philippe Lamontagne, a Ph.D. holder and research officer at Canada's National Research Council, in under an hour.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk