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Published: July 30th, 2008 | Category: Security Workshops | (0) Comments
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 [...]
Published: July 30th, 2008 | Category: Security Workshops | (0) Comments
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 [...]
Published: May 9th, 2008 | Category: Local Meetings | (0) Comments
Because I maintain the information security events calendar, I often get asked about local information security events. If I were to add all the local events that I know about, it would fill the calendar with a ton of entries, many of them not applicable to the users. I might start another calendar only for [...]
Published: April 18th, 2008 | Category: Security Workshops | (0) Comments
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 [...]
Published: April 14th, 2008 | Category: Security Workshops | (1) Comment
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 [...]
Published: March 18th, 2008 | Category: Security Workshops | (0) Comments
Just when you thought one week of RSA goodness was enough, USENIX has more for us the following week! The Usability, Psychology, and Security (UPSEC) workshop will be on April 14th, and the Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET) workshop will be held on the 15th. Hope to see you there!
Published: March 17th, 2008 | Category: Security Conferences | (0) Comments
USENIX, the advanced computing systems association, recently announced free access to all of their conference proceedings!
And here are the security related ones that you all might be interested in:
16h Usenix Security Symposium (Sec ‘07)
2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec ‘07)
DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test 2007 (DETER [...]
