Information Security Events for September

Published: August 31st, 2010 | Category: Hacking Contests, Security Conferences, Security Training, Security Workshops | (2) Comments

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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 [...]

Week 33 in Review – 2010

Published: August 23rd, 2010 | Category: Hacking Contests, Security Conferences, Security Tools, Security Training, Security Workshops | (0) Comments

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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, [...]

Week 31 in Review – 2010

Published: August 9th, 2010 | Category: Hacking Contests, Parties, Security Conferences, Security Tools, Security Training, Security Vulnerabilities, Security Workshops | (0) Comments

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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 [...]

Week 26 in Review 2010

Published: July 4th, 2010 | Category: Hacking Contests, Security Conferences, Security Tools, Security Training, Vendor News | (2) Comments

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Third SHB Workshop – schneier.com
This is a two-day gathering of computer security researchers, psychologists, behavioral economists, sociologists, philosophers, and others.
HiTB News
HiTB  organizes conferences for a while in Dubaï and Kuala Lumpur but this is the first time that an event is held in Europe and not too far from Belgium.

Hack in the Box Day [...]

Information Security Events in June

Published: May 31st, 2010 | Category: Hacking Contests, Local Meetings, Security Conferences, Security Training, Security Workshops | (1) Comment

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Here are the information security events in North America this month:

The Twelfth Annual International Techno Security Conference: June 6 – 9 in Myrtle Beach

SANSFIRE 2010: June 6 – 14 in Baltimore

22nd Annual Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST): June 13 – 18 in Miami

SANS WhatWorks in Pen Testing and Ethical Hacking Summit 2010: [...]

Week 17 in Review – 2010

Published: May 2nd, 2010 | Category: Hacking Contests, Security Conferences, Security Tools, Security Vulnerabilities, Security Workshops | (1) Comment

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HacKid Conferences: A Very Cool Thing – infosecramblings.com
The idea really revolves around providing an interactive, hands-on experience for kids and their parents.
Black Hat Europe 2010 – blackhat.com
Many Black Hat talks are available in audio and video formats.
LEET ‘10 Media – usenix.org
Session papers are available to workshop registrants immediately and to everyone beginning April 27, [...]

Week 15 in Review – 2010

Published: April 19th, 2010 | Category: Hacking Contests, Security Conferences, Security Tools, Security Training, Security Vulnerabilities, Security Workshops, Vendor News | (1) Comment

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Announcing 1st Workshop: Malicious PDF Analysis – brucon.org
Didier Stevens talks about PDFiD and pdf-parser at Brucon this year.
MSU Red Team – Fun, Success – mcgrewsecurity.com
This CCDC was a “practice” run for two Alaskan teams and two Hawaiian teams.

Resources:

Cell Phone Security – cellphones.org
With the increased capabilities and conveniences of today’s cell phones comes the increased [...]

Week 13 in Review – 2010

Published: April 5th, 2010 | Category: Hacking Contests, Security Conferences, Security Vulnerabilities, Vendor News | (1) Comment

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CanSecWest posts
A round-up of the events in the recent Canadian conference

CanSecWest 2010 Day 1 – sophos.com
CanSecWest 2010 day 2 summary – sophos.com
CanSecWest 2010 day 3 summary – sophos.com
Hacker Olympics: a shout-out from Vancouver, BC! – technet.com

Videos in Hack in the Box – hitb.org
Videos of the keynotes of HITB Malaysia 2009

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Passware Kit Forensic Decrypts [...]

Information Security Events in April

Published: March 31st, 2010 | Category: Hacking Contests, Security Conferences, Security Training, Security Workshops | (1) Comment

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 – April 24 – 25 in [...]

CanSecWest 2010 in Pictures

Published: March 29th, 2010 | Category: Hacking Contests, Security Conferences, Security Tools, Security Vulnerabilities | (2) Comments

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 [...]

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