Chinese foreign direct investment helped enable the tech revolution in China & set it as a strategic competitor to the United States.

But who exactly owns the Chinese firms undertaking FDI? Take a listen to my #LABScon24 keynote uncovering the extent of China's economic statecraft & find out!👇👇

🇹🇼 AI disinformation is changing the face of Taiwanese democracy, with deepfakes, synthetic voices, and AI-powered news anchors playing key roles in shaping political narratives.

👉 Watch the full video with @machinavelli.com at
#LABScon24: s1.ai/LC24-MW

📺 Unlike other threat actors that operate in the shadows, ransomware gangs are leveraging public visibility to build trust and increase their chances of payouts.

👉 Watch the full video with @maxwsmeets.bsky.social at #LABScon24: s1.ai/LC24-MS

LABScon24 Replay | Let Them Eat Cake: “Secure by Upgrade” Software is a National Security Threat Kymberlee Price reveals the technical chaos facing SMBs as they struggle with solutions aimed at bigger fish in the face of expanding crimeware.

To learn more, watch the full #LABScon24 video with @kympossible.bsky.social: s1.ai/LC24-KP

In case you missed it from #LABScon24: BINARLY’s @matrosov.bsky.social and @pagabuc.bsky.social reveal their research into a firmware supply-chain security issue that affected major device vendors and hundreds of models, PKfail.

📺 Watch the full video: s1.ai/PKfail

We came for the research, forever changed by the camaraderie 🥰 #LABScon24 @alperovitch.institute

We were out strong at #LABScon24 again this year!

Our Managing Director, @ellyrostoum.bsky.social closed #LABScon24 with a keynote on "Follow the Money: Uncovering the Incorporation of the CCP's Ownership of Chinese Firms Investing in the United States," winning the 2nd Best Speaker Award 👏

A fantastic talk by ALPIN Adjunct Prof. MJ Emanuel on how the SSL, VPN, and the firewall industry have developed over the last 25 years at #LABScon24 👇

From catching up with old friends to examining Chinese foreign investment in US farmland, #LABScon24 had it all. You know it’s a great con when you accidentally miss the Alperovitch Institute team photo because you were geeking out with a fellow researcher (we were out in force again this year!).

👯‍♀️ Besties @censys + @greynoise teamed up to uncover big Industrial Control System threats! 40K+ devices at risk, and attackers are all over Remote Access (hello, VNC)! Time to level up ICS security 🔐 #LABSCon24 https://buff.ly/4e9qTeB

Challenging Assumptions: Enhancing the Understanding of Securing Internet-Exposed Industrial Control Systems | GreyNoise Blog Discover the latest findings from Censys and GreyNoise on the real-world threats facing internet-exposed Industrial Control Systems (ICS). At LABSCon 2024, they revealed surprising research on how…

👯‍♀️ Besties Censys + @GreyNoise teamed up to uncover big Industrial Control System threats! 40K+ devices at risk, and attackers are all over Remote Access (hello, VNC)! Time to level up ICS security 🔐 #LABSCon24

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👯‍♀️ Besties @censys + @GreyNoiseIO teamed up to uncover big Industrial Control System threats! 40K+ devices at risk, and attackers are all over Remote Access (hello, VNC)! Time to level up ICS security 🔐 #LABSCon24 […]

Looking forward to another thought provoking year at #LABScon24! This year’s fantastic lineup includes Max Smeets, Kim Zetter, MJ Emanuel, Dakota Cary, Silas Cutler, Kristin Del Rosso, Tom Hegel, Martin Wendiggensen, Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro, and Juan Andres Guerrero Saade. See you there!