Here are information security events in North America this month:   NDSS Symposium 2012 : February 5 to 8 in San Diego, California USA   ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY) : February 8  to 12 in San Antonio, TX USA   DOJ Cyber Security Conference : February 8 to 9 in Washington, D.C. [...]

Here are information security events in North America this month:   DoD Cybercrime Conference 2012: January 20 to January 27 in Atlanta       ShmooCon USA : January 27 to Januaryin Washington, DC       And here are the information security events in the other parts of the world: BSides Vienna: January 21 [...]

Resources How Modern Cars Can Be Cracked – autosec.org SOURCE Barcelona Resources from September 2011 – sourceconference.com Links, articles, and media from the event. OSCP-My Review – proactivedefender.blogspot.com The OSCP certification is an offensive security course which teaches the attacking side of Information Security and is largely aimed at those wanting to become penetration testers. [...]

Events Related Highlights from the 28th Chaos Communications Congress – advocacy.globalvoicesonlne.org The Chaos Communications Congress is the annual meetup of Germany’s Chaos Computer Club, one of the oldest hacker collectives in the world. It takes place in Berlin every year at the height of the holiday season between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, a time [...]

Events Related Chaos Communications Congress Debriefing(s) …dedicated to information about the conferences and events of the CCC. Being our most important event, the annual Chaos Communication Congress is usually the main focus. But we provide announcements and background information for other CCC events as well – be it regional or international. Crypto talk at 28C3: [...]

Resources OWASP Risk Assessment Calculator – paradoslabs.nl Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare – fas.org Historic document via Federation of American Scientists “… Congress affirms that the Department of Defense has the capability, and upon direction by the President may conduct offensive operations in cyberspace to defend our Nation, Allies and interests, subject to–” Tools [...]

Events Related RuxCon Presentation Materials Archive – ruxcon.org.au BlackHat Abu Dhabi 2011 – tmacuk.co.uk I am going to keep this short, but I met a lot of new people, a lot of people I had spoken to over the phone but never seen face to face and people that I knew over Twitter. This, in [...]

Events Related PacSec 2011 Presented Material – pacsec.jp English/Japanese versions of PacSec 2011 Tokyo event last month. @OWASP Tokyo Webservices: Attack, defenses, and hardening – twitter.com Archives for ClubHack 2011 Videos – clubhack.tv MalCon 2011 YouTube Channel – youtube.com Resources Opensecuritytraining.info Welcome Message – opensecuritytraining.info New open source, creative commons powered teaching portal on computer [...]

Events Related OWASP ATL Presentation – intrepidusgroup.com I recently gave a presentation at OWASP ATL on the OWASP Mobile Top 10 and how to assess mobile applications. This was a light weight discussion of the OWASP Mobile Top 10 and some topical and technical concerns related to securing mobile applications. OWASP Benelux Days 2011 – [...]

Here are information security events in North America this month: BayThreat 2011: December 9 to December 11 in Mountain View SANS Cyber Defense Initiative 2011: December 9 to December 16 in Washington, DC   And here are the information security events in the other parts of the world: BeneLux OWASP Day 2011: December 1 to [...]