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Here are the information security events in North America this month:

AppSec USA 2010: September 7 -10 in Irvine

The International Symposium on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec):  September 14 in Ottawa

ISSA International Conference: September 15 – 17 in Atlanta

The 13th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID): September 15 – 17 in Ottawa

Cyber-RAID: September [...]

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Highlights from Black Hat and Defcon – readwriteweb.com
Here’s our round-up of highlights from the two security events from around the web.
Black Hat & DEFCON Observations – bobbydominguez.com
Both cons have their own distinct culture and participants, but you’ll see Black Hat attendees stay for the Defcon forums.
Corey’s 2010 Las Vegas [...]

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 [...]

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.
Washington, D.C. is not just about politics. The nation’s capital also is home to various groups dedicated to [...]

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Here are the information security events in North America this month:

The Twelfth Annual International Techno Security Conference: June 6 – 9 in Myrtle Beach

SANSFIRE 2010: June 6 – 14 in Baltimore

22nd Annual Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST): June 13 – 18 in Miami

SANS WhatWorks in Pen Testing and Ethical Hacking Summit 2010: [...]

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Here are the information security events in North America this month:

Secure360: May 11 – 12 in St. Paul

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy: May 16 – 19 in Oakland

CEIC 2010 (Computer and Enterprise Investigations Conference): May 24 – 27 in Summerlin

SANS WhatWorks in Security Architecture Summit 2010: May 24 – 26 in Las Vegas

CSI SX [...]

SANS is conducting another Application Security summit on February 4 and 5 in San Francisco. The event will feature talks by Gary McGraw, Michael Howard and David Rice as well as several user and vendor panels. Attendees will learn what works and what does not work in Application Security.
In order to help promote the [...]

Today, SANS and MITRE released their 2009 Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors list.
The 2009 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is a list of the most significant programming errors that can lead to serious software vulnerabilities. They occur frequently, are often easy to find, and easy to exploit. They are dangerous because [...]

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 [...]