. Here are the information security events in North America this month: SANS What Works in Forensics and Incident Response Summit 2010: July 8 – 9 in Washington, DC RECON 2010: July 9 – 11 in Montreal Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2010: July 14 – 16 in Redmond The Next HOPE: July [...]

Events Related: Who’s on…uh, at…FIRST? – windowsir.blogspot.com My employer is not a member of FIRST, but we were a sponsor, and we hosted the “Geek Bar”. La “Nuit Du Hack” in Paris – rootshell.be The event was split in two parts: a set of talks about security topics and, starting from midnight, a CTF contest. [...]

Events Related: Security BSides Las Vegas announcements – uncommonsensesecurity.com The first few talks confirmed are great and there are plenty more killer talks to be announced. KartCon2010 – owasp.org RSVP now to the 5th Annual OWASP KartCon 2010! Penetration Testing Summit 2010 – tenablesecurity.com The SANS Penetration Testing Summit was held this year at the [...]

Events Related: The Ninth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2010) – econinfosec.org Program for the upcoming Harvard security event. HackMiami Pwn-Off – n00bz.net Time to fire up the test machines because we have a battle royal. Workshop on the economics of information security 2010 – lightbluetouchpaper.org The workshop kicked off with a [...]

Events Related: Front Range OWASP Conference 2010 – owasp.org The official wiki/site of the FROC 2010  Resources: The History of Hacking – onlinemba.com Hacking has been around as long as computers as a way to reconfigure or reprogram a system to give access to someone who otherwise shouldn’t have access.  Tools: Released Buster Sandbox Analyzer [...]