Events Related: AppSec News AppSecUSA – Day 1 – You Missed A Good One - michael-coates.blogspot.com AppSecUSA – Day 2 – You Missed A Good One – michael-coates.blogspot.com DEFCON 18 Social-Engineer CTF Contest Findings Report Summary – social-engineer.org One of the most alarming findings was that it doesn’t take a seasoned expert in social engineering to [...]

Events Related: Slideshow: Fashion Statements from DEFCON 2010 – darkreading.com Hackers express themselves in more ways than just code. Security is a major theme at VMworld 2010. – vmware.com VMware launched 3 products under the vShield umbrella, to secure virtualized environments all the way from the edge to the endpoint. Resources: IT Security Database – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]