Events Related: HotCloud 09 Workshop Papers online – usenix.org SecurityBSides ‘unconference’ takes on Las Vegas during Black Hat, Defcon – blogs.zdnet.com Phreaknic 12 Videos online – irongeek.com Tools: Wireshark 1.2.1 – wireshark.org Firefox 3.0.12 – mozilla.com Ncat Tutorial: A modern Netcat from the Nmap team – irongeek.com RainbowCrack 1.4 – project-rainbowcrack.com Web Application Security Scanner [...]

It’s been a busy week with several new vulnerabilities, and patches from Oracle, Mozilla, and Microsoft. Black Hat USA and DEFCON is coming up, and the excitement is in the air. Just do a twitter search and see how many people are talking about it. Now onto the weekly review… Events Related: National SCADA Test [...]

Events Related: SANS Forensic Summit Windows Incident Response blog review Black Hat USA Black Hat USA 2009 Conference Schedule now on sched.org Predicting Social Security Numbers Reverse-engineering SSNs from publicly available data – boingboing.net There’s Security, Then There’s Social Security – eset.com Social Security Numbers Deduced From Public Data – wired.com Jeremiah Grossman’s Picks DEFCON [...]

Yesterday we posted our day one picks for Black Hat USA 2009. Today we will share our top picks for day two. Attacking SMS (1000 – 1100) With the increased usage of text messaging around the globe, SMS provides an ever widening attack surface on today’s mobile phones. From over the air updates to rich [...]

Choosing which session to attend is hard enough with eight different tracks going on at this year’s Black Hat USA, so here are our top picks for the first day. Ruby for Pentesters (1000-1100) Getting up to speed quickly on projects where you’re down deep reversing protocols or applications can be challenging at best and [...]

This is an updated post from last year, with a similar post title of Top 5 Reasons to Attend Black Hat USA. So what makes Black Hat USA so good, and why do we keep coming back? Here are our top five reasons to attend Black Hat USA. Excellent Presentations – There are eight session [...]

Join Black Hat Founder and Director Jeff Moss and several of this year’s USA speakers for a Webcast previewing some of the hottest topics being presented at Black Hat USA 2009. Registered participants of the Webcast will receive a code that can be redeemed for $250 off the price of registration for the USA 2009 [...]

Here are the information security events in North America this month: ToorCamp 2009 – July 2–5 in Washington Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security 2009 – July 15-17 in California Black Hat USA 2009 – July 29-30 in Nevada DEFCON 17 – July 31-Aug 2 in Nevada And here are the information security events in [...]