Empire Hacking Turns One

Summary: Empire Hacking, a bi-monthly security research meetup started by Trail of Bits, marked its first year with a retrospective of presentations covering topics such as cellular baseband exploitation, Nintendo 3DS exploitation, OS X malware, and a use-after-free detector. The group created a Slack organization for members in September, held all but one meetup at WeWork with the April 2016 event at Digital Ocean, and announced upcoming talks on Doorman and Tidas for its June event at Spotify.
Key Takeaway: The meetup drew a packed house and more than 150 attendees to a special half-day session on smart contract pitfalls, showing that a practitioner-driven forum can pull a large security audience around pragmatic research rather than vendor messaging.

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