If you’re not already following the NovaInfosec Twits and are wondering where to get the best tweets about security in the NoVA, DC, and MD area, look no further than this post.
Posted every Friday, our “Infosec Ramblings” post takes the best security tweets from the past week and puts them into one easy to digest post.
If you don’t want to wait an entire week to read the best security tweets, be sure to stop by @grecs or learn more about the NovaInfosec Twits.
There seemed to be quite a few meetups this past week. Did you get to attend any of them?
- This looks interesting. RT @wadew Looking foward to Cyberdawn this weekend – http://bit.ly/2FHVcg #mtg
- Reminder: 2600 Group – Arlington Infosec Meetup Event is 2morrow, Oct. 2. http://ow.ly/sRxq C ths #mtg & othrs via iCal http://bit.ly/nipcal #
There’s also some upcoming meetups for those of you who are interested.
- RT @baltimorenode Guess how many days left U got 2 sign up 2 learn 2 solder. 5! Thats it! Its diy multimete http://ow.ly/slo7 #mtg #
If you don’t have time to make it to any of the weekly security meetups, why not try attending one of these upcoming conferences?
- RT @AppSecDC09 RT #OWASP Summit Agenda for Nov 11th 2009 Washington DC http://bit.ly/Qgpj8 (via @brennantom) #con #
- RT @ebellis RT @anton_chuvakin: #FYI #NIST Security Automation Conference early reg deadline today: http://bit.ly/2EAnKg #con #
- RT @DojoCon Enjoy DojoCon Nov 6-7 for $150 or get a one-day pass for $85 http://j.mp/jGxx #con #
For those of you that don’t know, we have some pretty awesome infosec bloggers in the local area. You can check out some of their articles below.
- AWAY WITH THE SSP: Wow, post dedicated 2 me.
@rybolov discuses pros/cons of this fine document. http://ow.ly/sgGG #novablogger # - BEST OF HACKIN9: @taosecurity mentioned this 218 page “best of” edition. http://ow.ly/sh5M #novablogger #
- MORE MAG GOODNESS: Another post from @taosecurity .. this time on the 6th issue of BSD Magazine. http://ow.ly/sh6l #novablogger #
- MYLIFEBITS: @moranned put out a lot of posts this week 4 his class. This 1st is on this MS project. http://ow.ly/sh7p #novablogger #
- EXTREMISTS ONLINE: @moranned discusses how FBI monitors forums to catch the bad guys. http://ow.ly/sh8f #novablogger #
- SOCIAL NETWORKS & PII: @moranned points out PII is defined very broadly & social networks make it worse. http://ow.ly/sh9J #novablogger #
- 1/2 ALL BUSINESSES DON’T SECURE PERSONAL DATA: Nother post by @moranned. I definitely believe this. http://ow.ly/shaA #novablogger #
- URLZONE: There’s been a lot of news on this new Trojan and @moranned pulls out 2 nuggets. http://ow.ly/shby #novablogger #
- GMAIL ACCOUNT DEACTIVATION DEBACLE: @carnal0wnage comments on this story a/b Google & bank screw-up. http://ow.ly/shca #novablogger #
- GOV SOCIAL MEDIA THREATS: @rybolov looks at 6 potential Web 2.0 threats & countermeasures. http://ow.ly/sheV #novablogger #
- B-SIDES LOLCATS: Wouldn’t b complete week without @rybolov lolcats post. This dedicated 2 un-cons @ cons. http://ow.ly/shfO #novablogger #
- ROOM362 MOVE: Looks like @mubix moved his site over to SquareSpace & is looking 4 contributors. http://ow.ly/shhf #novablogger #
In case you missed them, here were some of our blog posts from this week.
- BLOGGED: Grec’s Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2009-10-01 http://ow.ly/15SmCk #
- BLOGGED: Grec’s Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2009-10-02 http://ow.ly/15SuMz #
- BLOGGED: Title: Where You Want to Be This Week – 10-05 http://ow.ly/15SXCJ #
- BLOGGED: In Focus: NoVA Email Lists/Networking Page http://ow.ly/15TEsU #
- BLOGGED: Job: Computer Hacker Wanted in Chantilly, VA http://ow.ly/15TqKN #
- BLOGGED: Interview About AppSec DC with OWASP’s Mark Bristow http://ow.ly/15TsJk #
You can also keep yourself busy with these interesting newsbites:
- Wow, at least someone is makin profits. RT @DrInfoSec Online Crime up 600% in ’09 http://bit.ly/y0sRL [sure feels that way] #
- Yeah! RT @Shpantzer RT @dexin: IT Spending Will Jump 21% to $1.7 Trillion by 2013, IDC Says http://bit.ly/yImfs #
- Noooo.
RT @GovInfoSecurity IT Unemployment at Near 5-Year High: Tech Jobless Rate Reaches 5%; IT Unemploy.. http://bit.ly/vUPeh # - Been seeing this all day. Now MS acknowledges. RT @SCMagazine Microsoft acknowledges Windows Live ID breach. http://bit.ly/2koqMD #
- Can U say end-to-end encryption? RT @GovInfoSecurity New Data Encryption Practices Unveiled. http://bit.ly/oJGaV #RT @GovInfoSecurity: Hathaway Joins Kennedy School as Sr Adviser .. 2 Focus on Int’l Cybersec Initiatives http://bit.ly/WLTfl #
Well, that’s all for this week. Be sure to follow us @grecs for more great tweets during the week!
No related posts.
