Events Related Cyber Defence Challenge: Analogies – holisticinfosec.blogspot.com I recently had the opportunity to interview Alexei Czeskis, the captain of the University of Washington (UW) team who won this year’s National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC). During my discussion with Alexei I was immediately drawn to the fact that his approach and tactics closely mirror [...]

Events Related Hack In The Box 2011 Amsterdam Official debriefing from someone who was there. HITB2011 Ams Wrap-up Day#1 – blog.rootshell.be HITB2011 Ams Wrap-up Day#2 – blog.rootshell.be Resources WhiteHat Secuirty’s Approach to Detecting Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) – blog.whitehatsec.com Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) generates many questions from prospects, customers, partners, and Web application security professionals [...]

Resources Hakin9 Magazine Cloud Security Issue – mytalkoot.com Comprehensive cloud-centric resources and articles now available for download. Club Hack Magazine May Issue On browser Security – professionalsecuritytesters.org Here we are again with the latest issue of ClubHack Magazine. This time also the issue is dedicated to Browser security. Hacking Illustrated – irongeek.com In this section [...]

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. Not quite as hyper as L.A. and a little too laid back compared to bustling San Fran, [...]

Events Related ICSJWG Debriefing The semi-annual Industrial Control System Joint Working Group Conference is traditionally the best place to catch up with everyone in the ICS Security community. DHS puts on a solid program, and there is a certain feeling you need to be here even though there have been little non-conference results from ICSJWG [...]

Resources Dan Kaminsky Reveals His Process For Security Research – resources.infosecinstitute.com Dan Kaminsky has been a noted security researcher for over a decade, and has spent his career advising Fortune 500 companies such as Cisco, Avaya and Microsoft. Dan spent three years working with Microsoft on their Vista, Server 2008 and Windows 7 releases. Incident [...]

Here are the information security events in North America this month: SANS Security West 2011: May 3 to May 13 in San Diego Bsides ROC: May 7 to May 8 in New York Secure 360: May 10 to May 12 in Saint Paul TakeDownCon: May 14 to May 20 in Dallas SANS Cyber Guardian: May [...]