Events Related Shmoocon 2011 ShmooCon 2011: Team Joch vs. Android: The Final Showdown – blog.c22.cc Shmoocon 2011: Printers gone wild! – blog.c22.cc ShmooCon 2011: Attacking 3G and 4G mobile telecommunications networks – blog.c22.cc ShmooCon 2011: Defeating mTANS for profit – blog.c22.com ShmooCon 2011: URL enlargement: Is it for you? – blog.c22.cc Resources Train Like You [...]

Events Related: A Shmoocon Preview – blogs.macafee.com At about a third of the size of a larger conference like Black Hat, it’s much easier to talk to the speakers without fighting with a crowd. Past years have had good presentations on mobile phone security and this year is no exception. Black Hat DC 2011 We are [...]

Events Related Shmoocon CTF Warm up Contest – JavaScrimpd – blog.stalkr.net Last week-end was ShmooCon CTF Warmup Contest. Three challenges, the last one being an ELF binary + hostname of a server. Tools OWASP Zed Attack Proxy 1.2.0 Released – vulnerabilitydatabase.com/toolswatch/2011 The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding [...]

Events Related: Derbycon I will admit there is limited spacing, we rented the entire second floor of the Hyatt and tickets will go fast. new hacker con, hell of speaker list: DerbyCon – reddit.com Derbycon Teaser Video and website launch date announced – secmaniac.com ShmooCon CTF Warmup 2011 – cylab.cmu.edu A couple of PPP members [...]

Events Related: ToorCon related news Some Results from the ToorCon Security Conference – connectedinternet.co.uk Hackers, security researchers at the ToorCon security conference in San Diego showed how easy it can be to poke holes in hardware and software with the right combination of tools, know-how, and good old fashioned cat curiosity. ToorCon: New Apps, Old [...]

Events Related: Ekoparty 2010 Wrap-Up – dvlabs.tippingpoint.com The reason that Ekoparty is the premier conference in South America can be summed up in one word: collaboration. Metasploit Unleashed, Again! – offensive-security.com As new features are being added to the Metasploit Framework, we are attempting to add them to the Wiki in order to keep our [...]

. Here are the information security events in North America this month: 20th Virus Bulletin International Conference: September 29 – October 1 in Vancouver Workshop on Managing Systems via Log Analysis and Machine Learning Techniques: October 3 in Vancouver Hacker Halted: October 9 – 15 in Miami BlueHat v10: A Security Odyssey: October 14 -15 [...]

Events Related: AppSec News AppSecUSA – Day 1 – You Missed A Good One - michael-coates.blogspot.com AppSecUSA – Day 2 – You Missed A Good One – michael-coates.blogspot.com DEFCON 18 Social-Engineer CTF Contest Findings Report Summary – social-engineer.org One of the most alarming findings was that it doesn’t take a seasoned expert in social engineering to [...]

. 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 [...]

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 [...]