Events Related Watch: An (Almost) Inside Look at China’s Top Information Security Forum – blogs.wsj.com Chinese computer-security researchers and professionals gathered in Beijing late last week for the 10th annual session of the country’s best-known information security conference, where presenters spoke on security threats and how they could be prevented. DefCon 19 Archive Page – [...]

Events Related BlackHat 2011 Leftover notes and resources. Defcon/BlackHat Slides, Whitepaper, Tools – mcgrewsecurity.com BlackHat According to Twitter – blog.thinkst.com BlackHat Twitter Feed port 4848 – twitter.com BlackHat Twitter Feed Ws-attacks.org – twitter.com BlackHat Twitter Feed Tools For Soap – twitter.com Bit-squatting, DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation – nakedsecurity.sophos.com New Free Tool Helps Gather Attacker’s Footprints [...]

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. The Bay Area scene is very active and covers a broad spectrum, so expect local professional groups [...]

. Here are the information security events in North America this month: DEFCON 18: July 30 – August 1 in Las Vegas DFRWS 2010 Annual Conference: August 2 – 4 in Portland CIScon 2010: August 10 – 11 in Helena 19th USENIX Security Symposium: August 11 – 13 in Washington, D.C. SANS WhatWorks in Virtualization [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]