Wednesday 26-February-2020 // 6:00 – 9:00 PM Meeting Location: Michener Auditorium at UHN, 222 St. Patrick Street, Toronto February TASK Speaker: Rahul Raghavan Topic: Security Checkpoints for Agile Engineering In this age of rapid product engineering, we are amidst the flux of jargon- dropping in a dire attempt to drive home the need for scalable […]

Wednesday 29-January-2020 // 6:00 – 9:00 PM Meeting Location: Michener Auditorium at UHN, 222 St. Patrick Street, Toronto January TASK Speaker: Alana Staszczyszyn Topic: War in the Fifth Dimension: An Overview of the Weaponization of Information What defines a cyberwar? Does cyberwarfare actually exist, or are cyber attacks just a means of enacting warfare in the […]

Wednesday 27-November-2019 // 6:00 – 9:00 PM Meeting Location: Michener Auditorium at UHN, 222 St. Patrick Street, Toronto November TASK Speaker: Julian Pileggi Topic: Threat Hunting with EDR As skilled attackers focus on bypassing traditional security mechanisms, the ability to perform threat hunting has become more and more integral to a comprehensive security monitoring and […]

Wednesday 30-October-2019 // 6:00 – 9:00 PM Meeting Location: Michener Auditorium at UHN, 222 St. Patrick Street, Toronto October TASK Speakers: Laura Harris and Yagneshwaran Prabagaran Topic: The Mechanics of Malware’s Darkside This presentation will introduce the basics steps of carrying out static and dynamic analysis on malware using disassemblers, debuggers, and amongst other tools. […]

We were unsuccessful in getting you the right speakers this month so have had to cancel our September event. But fear not, two of Canada’s best cybersecurity conferences are just around the corner and we hope you’ll join in! BSidesTO takes place at Ryerson University on October 5-6, followed by SecTor 2019 in the MTCC […]

Wednesday 28-August-2019 // 6:15 – 9:00 PM Meeting Location: Michener Auditorium at UHN, 222 St. Patrick Street, Toronto August TASK This month’s TASK is our ever-popular BlackHat, DefCon, BSidesLV recap special! Listed below are just a few of this month’s Speakers and the Sessions they’ll be covering: Cheryl Biswas Threat Hunting Talk from BSides Diana […]

Wednesday 31-July-2019 // 6:15 – 9:00 PM Meeting Location: Michener Auditorium at UHN, 222 St. Patrick Street, Toronto July TASK Speaker: Mohammed Muraj Topic: Decrypting Canadian Export Controls on Cryptography Organizations are increasingly deploying cryptographic technologies to safeguard the exchange and storage of their information. However, developers and users alike often overlook, or are simply […]

Wednesday 26-June-2019 // 6:00 – 9:00 PM Meeting Location: Michener Auditorium at UHN, 222 St. Patrick Street, Toronto June TASK Speaker: Adrian Grigorof Topic: Big changes in SIEMs: A comparison of cloud-born and traditional options SIEM solutions have evolved a lot over the last decade – and we’re now in the midst of a cloud […]

Wednesday 29-May-2019 // 6:00 – 9:00 PM Meeting Location: Michener Auditorium at UHN, 222 St. Patrick Street, Toronto May TASK Speaker: Joe Wu Topic: Windows VBScript Use-After-Free Vulnerability and Exploit Kit Analysis What does a Use-After-Free vulnerability look like? How do exploit kits exploit it to deliver bank trojans? Is Windows 10 the same exploitability […]

Due to venue unavailability we’ve had to cancel this months TASK. Stay tuned, we’ll be back in April! Until then, TASK Steering Committee.