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ShmooCon 2012 Talk
I had a great time talking at Shmoocon this year! Thanks to all the people who sent in feedback! I take such very seriously and have already worked to tweak this presentation with those comments in mind. I am putting … Continue reading
ShmooCon Paper Accepted
Woot! .. I just got mail from the ShmooCon selection committee, my paper TTL of a Penetration was accepted for a speaking slot at shmoo this year. I’ll be a busy little camper as we approach the ‘con .. but … Continue reading
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Conferences Conferences
Soo looks like I am going to: – Usenix LISA Dec 5-9 Boston, MA – Participating in the Advanced Topics Workshop.. yay! – ShmooCon Jan 25-27 Washington, Dc – I’ll actually be there 23rd to teach labs.. always a good … Continue reading
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BBC News – Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published
BBC News – Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published. And this is why I got off facebook. Caught in the net. Now that this ‘database’ is in a convenient file that can be loaded into a database, they’ll … Continue reading
Harsh Words for Professional Infosec Certification
Harsh Words for Professional Infosec Certification. Very interesting article. Says alot about the state of affairs. How many people have just Security + and are doing system engineering? I’ve seen this many times.
We’re at Yellow
ISC has us at yellow for the latest windows vulnerability. If you’re a security geek.. you should go here at least once every few days to see what’s up. http://isc.sans.edu/index.html Lock down your windows boxes
Cool Hacking Tools
So found these on reddit.com this morning: – http://www.damnvulnerablelinux.org/index.html .. a nice version of linux thats easier to hack than the normal version ( but not much – http://www.wpacracker.com/ – a payware WPA cracking tool .. also nice .. passwords … Continue reading
Rotten Apple?
So this is starting to come out in the press .. finally Apple is being evil. The funny part is android has been doing this exact thing for some time. While my tin-foil hat is fairly thin .. this is … Continue reading
Spoke at ECPI
Talked to a group for Security+ students about ‘trends’ in IT security at ECPI last night. Was a fun class and they enjoyed it (i think). I promised to post the slides.. so here they are Thanks to the students … Continue reading
