. Here are the information security events in North America this month: AppSec USA 2010: September 7 -10 in Irvine The International Symposium on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec):  September 14 in Ottawa ISSA International Conference: September 15 – 17 in Atlanta The 13th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID): September 15 [...]

Each week, we’ll highlight a major city in the US and cover the places and events you can go to in that area to get your security information fix. This post is part of the information security communities. The Heart of America, Kansas City. If you like great music or want a taste of that [...]

Events Related: MalCon, a security event for malware authors Spread across the world, malcoders now have a common platform to demonstrate expertise, get a new insight and be a part of the global MALCODER community. MalCon: A Call for ‘Ethical Malcoding’ – krebsonsecurity.com New Conference Wants to Bring Malware Writers Out of the Shadows – [...]

Events Related: Conference swag #defcon 9 to 18 badges laying around. (minus my missing dc 7, 8 or 12 badges) – @blackfeathers defcon badges & other security conference passes – flickr.com Metasploit Express crucial to win in South Florida ISSA Hack the Flag – rapid7.com Seven teams participated, defending systems running a variety of off-the-shelf [...]

Each week, we’ll highlight a major city in the US and cover the places and events you can go to in that area to get your security information fix. This post is part of the information security communities. Situated in the Great Lakes area, Milwaukee is known for its brew and taverns. Aside from that, [...]

Events Related: “Crack Me If You Can” – DEFCON 2010 – korelogic.com The core-count for teams using clusters or EC2 are rough equivalents based on the number of compute-hours they report having used. See each teams’ specific writeup for more details. BSidesLasVegas Recap – Day 1 – novainfosecportal.com Since I took the most notes on [...]

Each week, we’ll highlight a major city in the US and cover the places and events you can go to in that area to get your security information fix. This post is part of the information security communities. One of the tech centers of the south, Austin is home to many security professionals who “keep [...]

Events Related: BlackHat / DefCon 18 related posts Highlights from Black Hat and Defcon – readwriteweb.com Here’s our round-up of highlights from the two security events from around the web. Black Hat & DEFCON Observations – bobbydominguez.com Both cons have their own distinct culture and participants, but you’ll see Black Hat attendees stay for the [...]

Each week, we’ll highlight a major city in the US and cover the places and events you can go to in that area to get your security information fix. This post is part of the information security communities. Thanks to Brad Smith for contributing to some of writeups in this post. Howdy All, We’d like [...]

. Here are the information security events in North America this month: DEFCON 18: July 30 – August 1 in Las Vegas DFRWS 2010 Annual Conference: August 2 – 4 in Portland CIScon 2010: August 10 – 11 in Helena 19th USENIX Security Symposium: August 11 – 13 in Washington, D.C. SANS WhatWorks in Virtualization [...]