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 [...]

Events Related: 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. [...]

. 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 [...]

Events Related: 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 [...]

Events Related: 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 [...]

Events Related: 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Events Related: Security BSides San Francisco and Austin – uncommonsensesecurity.com Reminiscing about past BSides. Pwn2Own 2010 Day 1 Overview – liquidmatrix.org A look back into the events of the first day of Pwn2Own. Outerz0ne 2010 Videos – archive.org Talks from their latest event. Resources: VERIS Incident Classification Mindmap – verizonbusiness.com VERIS employs the A4 Threat [...]

Events Related: Belated RSA postings Some last-minute RSA catchups RSA 2010 – Day 1 Metricon – chuvakin.blogspot.com RSA 2010 – Day 2-3 – chuvakin.blogspot.com RSA 2010 – Day 4-5 – chuvakin.blogspot.com Ninja Networks Twitter – twitter.com Follow ninjanetworks @ twitter leading up to and during DEFCON for Ninja badge and event information. Hackers In Japan [...]