Here are the information security events in North America this month: Notacon 7 – April 15 – 18 in Cleveland InfoSec World 2010 – April 17 – 23 in Orlando Source Boston 2010 – April 21 -23 in Boston THOTCON 0×1 – April 23 in Chicago QuahogCon – April 23 -25 in Providence SecurityBSides Boston [...]

CanSecWest 2010 banners Tom Gallagher and David Conger from Microsoft talk about distributed file fuzzing and the Microsoft Office 2010 security model.    Some other notes from their talk: Office supports 300 file formats. each can have different sub formats .wpd extension has 3 different parsers. fuzzing surface=huge Microsoft built their own distributed fuzzer system [...]

Events Related: Security BSides San Francisco and Austin – uncommonsensesecurity.com Reminiscing about past BSides. Pwn2Own 2010 Day 1 Overview – liquidmatrix.org A look back into the events of the first day of Pwn2Own. Outerz0ne 2010 Videos – archive.org Talks from their latest event. Resources: VERIS Incident Classification Mindmap – verizonbusiness.com VERIS employs the A4 Threat [...]

Canada’s premier conference is starting tomorrow, March 24! CanSecWest is the most comprehensive and advanced applied digital security event in North America. With cutting-edge speakers delving into a host of highly-informative and highly-technical sessions, this is one security conference you would not want to miss. Unlike most events, CanSecWest features a single track of presentations, [...]

Events Related: Belated RSA postings Some last-minute RSA catchups RSA 2010 – Day 1 Metricon – chuvakin.blogspot.com RSA 2010 – Day 2-3 – chuvakin.blogspot.com RSA 2010 – Day 4-5 – chuvakin.blogspot.com Ninja Networks Twitter – twitter.com Follow ninjanetworks @ twitter leading up to and during DEFCON for Ninja badge and event information. Hackers In Japan [...]

Events Related: RSA related posts Chattin’ With the Boss: “Securing the Network” (Waiting For the Jet Pack) – rationalsurvivability.com RSA Interview (c/o Tripwire) On the State Of Information Security In Virtualized/Cloud Environments. – rationalsurvivability.com RSAC2010: ISC2 – mckeay.net Pics from the RSA Codebreakers Bash – tripwire.com Videos from the RSA Codebreakers Bash – Spinning and [...]

The RSA Conference in San Francisco, CA just concluded and it was overflowing with the latest security information, insights and news. There’s been a lot of buzz about this security event and we’ve compiled a few of those links for you. Studies and research NSS Labs Study on social attack aversion – NSS Labs released [...]

Some of you have been waiting for this and here it is, finally! The official site for ShmooCon just post the slides and video of the various sessions. Here are a few picks from this bunch. Each video file is about 100mb. Happy downloading! Becoming Jack Flack: Real Life Cloak & Dagger A talk about [...]

Events Related: ShmooCon 2010 Presentations – shmoocon.org Slides and video from sessions during the DC conference. Some posts related to the RSA Conference RSA 2010 Coverage – novainfosecportal.com Videos from RSA Conference 2010 – rsa.com Some BSides SF posts BSidesSanFrancisco Official Site – securitybsides.org BsidesSF Videos – ustream.com Resources: Verizon Incident Metrics Framework Released – [...]

Events Related: Securosis’ Guide to the RSA Conference 2010 – mckeay.com If you want to do some research on specific technologies at the RSA Conference 2010, this should help. ShmooCon 2010 Firetalks – Update 5 (aka – the Wrap-Up) – novainfosecportal.com Presentation compilations and more. Assured Exploitation Training – trailofbits.com This training class is focused [...]