March 7-9, 2018
Montreal, Canada
Writing Viruses for Fun, not Profit
Stopping viruses is hard. They're clever, evolve, and become more resilient over time.
So let's write one! We'll see how they hide, how they propagate.
In this presentation, Ben takes you on a live-demo journey of self-replication, cryptographic obfuscation, and payload delivery.
Now you're thinking like a virus writer, you can anticipate which areas of your applications need hardening. Just remember, we're doing it for good, not profit!
So let's write one! We'll see how they hide, how they propagate.
In this presentation, Ben takes you on a live-demo journey of self-replication, cryptographic obfuscation, and payload delivery.
Now you're thinking like a virus writer, you can anticipate which areas of your applications need hardening. Just remember, we're doing it for good, not profit!
Ben Dechrai
Venn Labs
Ben has spent more than 20 years helping companies improve how they build software, more recently the practical side of agentic engineering: getting tools like Claude Code to deliver production-quality work rather than demos, and structuring repos, prompts and workflows so the output is effective, resilient and secure. That rests on decades of building and shipping product in application security and identity. He is a Microsoft MVP and has given 100+ talks on six continents, including DEF CON.
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