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.
With BlackHat and DefCon in full swing, we thought it would be appropriate to highlight the security communities [...]

Events Related:

(Def) #ConSurvival – h-i-r.net
Some practical tips on how to get through DefCon
BlackHat and DefCon Tips: 2010/N00b Edition – it.toolbox.com
More things to remember on your next Vegas security event
BlackHat Track Schedule – uktek.com
A full schedule of the when and where certain talks are going to be held.

Tools:

Ubitack 0.2 – code.google.com/p/ubitack/
This tool automates some of the [...]

Fyodor’s Nmap presentation during DEFCON 16 is now available in video form on insecure.org. Fyodor waited to release the video until Nmap version 4.75 was released, since the presentation goes over many of the new features in Nmap.
Two cool new features are the open port frequency options, and integration of the Zenmap GUI. Zenmap [...]

It looks like the security conference archive at good.net has all the DEFCON 16 audio online. But what’s better than audio? Video of course, and the folks at DEFCON released four presentations that have been in the news recently.

Active HTTPS Cookie Hijacking by Mike Perry
DNS Goodness by Dan Kaminsky
Stealing the Internet by Anton Kapela and [...]

Rob Fuller yesterday did an excellent guest post on the Zero Day ZDNet blog on the tools released at DEFCON 16. Here is the list of DEFCON 16 tools:

Beholder: An open source wireless IDS program by Nelson Murilo and Luis Eduardo
The Middler: The end-all be-all of MITM tools by Jay Beale
ClientIPS: An open source inline [...]

Because the presenters have to submit their slides before the conference (so they can make the presentation discs), often the slides are outdated by the time the conference comes around. Thankfully a few presenters are posting their updated slides online, and here is a list of those that did.

NTLM is Dead by Kurt Grutzmacher
Virtually [...]