Yesterday was the USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security. We weren’t able to attend this workshop, but the presentations are now online.
Here are some Workshop on Hot Topics in Security presentations that sound interesting to us:

Towards Application Security on Untrusted Operating Systems by Dan R.K. Ports and Tal Garfinkel
Digital Objects as Passwords by [...]

This is the week of USENIX, as they have several security related workshops, and their annual  Security Symposium. On Monday, there was the Workshop on Offensive Technologies, and I was lucky enough to get invited to the workshop.
Paul Vixie started the event by talking about the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability. He didn’t talk about [...]

Here is what’s going on this month in the information security space:

The Last HOPE: July 18 - 20
Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security: July 23 - 25
USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT): July 28
Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET): July 28
USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec): July 29
Security Metrics (MetriCon 3.0): [...]

Last week SANS held two WhatWorks summits in Las Vegas. One covered penetration testing and ethical hacking, and the other covered web application security.
 
Jeremiah Grossman was the keynote speaker for the web application security summit, and he posted his post-summit thoughts on his blog.
The format favored enterprise speakers rather than experts, which made it [...]

Here is what’s going on this month in the information security space:

Hacker Halted: June 1 - 3
GFIRST 2008: June 1 - 6
SANS WhatWorks in Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking Summit: June 2 - 3
SANS WhatWorks in Web Application Security Summit 2008: June 2 - 3
Applied Cryptography and Network Security 2008: June 3 - 6
NYS Cyber [...]

Today at the Claremont Resort in Berkeley California, I attended the Web 2.0 Security and Privacy workshop. It was was sponsored by IEEE, whom just finished their Symposium on Security and Privacy yesterday. The papers for the Web 2.0 Security and Privacy workshop are now available, and can be found on the program page. Presentations [...]

May is a bit slower with only 7 different events going. Here is a list of information security events in May:

EDUCAUSE Security 2008: May 4 - 6
ChicagoCon Training and Conference: May 12 - 17
LayerOne 2008: May 17 - 18
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy: May 18 - 21
Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering: May 22
Web [...]

A few days ago was another workshop ran by the USENIX folks, this time on botnets, spyware, and spam called LEET. All presentations are now online for you to enjoy.
The most talked about topic from all the presentations was the Storm botnet. None of the researchers could agree on the number of machines Storm has [...]

Three new entries have been added to the events calendar.

Web 2.0 Security and Privacy in California - May 22
Shakacon Workshops and Conference in Hawaii - June 9 to June 13
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) in New Hampshire - June 25 to June 28

Today the USENIX folks ran a special workshop on human computer interaction, applied psychology, and computer security called UPSEC. The schedule and presentations can be found on the UPSEC program page.
Many of the presenters came from academia, and from past experience, they would usually be theoretical. But I was very happy when I found [...]