Events Related ShmooCon CTF 2011 Ghost In the Shellcode – ghostintheshellcode.com Congratulations to ppp for winning the second GitS CTF! The game board as it was when the contest ended is now live, though answers are not accepted, nor are any of the exploitable services running. Just like the real thing – blog.uncommonsensesecurity.com The goal is [...]

Events Related ShmooCon 2011 Getting to ShmooCon each year is always challenging (as is trying to get home). Mother Nature seems to enjoy disrupting the travel to and from the conference, which is held in Washington, D.C in January or February of each year. ShmooCon 2011 – intrepidusgroup.com ShmooCon 2011 Conference Wrap Up – blog.tenablesecurity.com [...]

Each week, we’ll highlight a major city in the US and cover the places and events you can go to in that area to get your security information fix. This post is part of the information security communities. There’s a small community of local professional groups in De Moines. Most of them are quite active, [...]

. Here are the information security events in North America this month: 18th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium: February 6 to 9 in San Diego BSides San Francisco: February 14 to 15 in San Francisco RSA Conference 2011: February 14 to 18 in San Francisco BSides Cleveland: February 18 in Cleveland SANS Phoenix: [...]

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 [...]

Each week, we’ll highlight a major city in the US and cover the places and events you can go to in that area to get your security information fix. This post is part of the information security communities. This town is at the base of the Rockies and is home to many world-class athletes. It [...]

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 [...]

Each week, we’ll highlight a major city in the US and cover the places and events you can go to in that area to get your security information fix. This post is part of the information security communities. Motor City is still relevant in the security field in the Great Lakes area. Together with nearby [...]