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 seat of the Southeast, Atlanta is probably well-known as the center of the Coca-Cola empire and the [...]

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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 – 17 in Ottawa

Cyber-RAID: September [...]

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 special [...]

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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 – threatpost.com

Resources:

Recon 2010: Intro to [...]

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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 services such as HTTP, SSH, [...]

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“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 the CCDC talk, I [...]

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 Austin [...]

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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 Defcon forums.
Corey’s 2010 Las Vegas [...]

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 to [...]

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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 and Cloud Computing Summit: August 19 [...]