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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?
- RT @mubix: NoVA Hackers – Name change and Google group: http://bit.ly/4FKW7M – Meeting this Friday. #mtg #
- RT @danphilpott: NIST is holding a free Industrial Control System Security Workshop, October 23rd in Bethesda, MD: http://bit.ly/1Nortf #
There’s also some upcoming meetups for those of you who are interested.
- #mtg RT @capsecdc: Hey Folks – Save the Date – next #CapSecDC is 10/28, a week and a half away! URLs et al soon, but you know the drill. #
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 @bobgourley: Just updated Fed Tech Events Cal http://j.mp/Pfnf0 to include 12-13 Nov Sec Controls event. This will be great one. #con #
- RT @DojoCon: Toool at #DOJOCON *Lock Pick Village–Fri/Sat Nov6/7* Portion of their http://ow.ly/vqwc proceeds goin to HFC. #con #
- RT @DojoCon: DojoCon has Scholarships available for InfoSec Students and Interns. DM for details. #con #
- RT @mschafer Making plans 4 #CSI2009 next wk. Mon Funday. Meetup/Tweetup around 6ish at Pose Ultra Lounge. DM me for details! #con #
- NSA & others.. #con RT @angelinaward: NSA to host Security Automation Conference http://tinyurl.com/yjdn5ya #
- #con RT @AppSecDC09: < 1 month! For the weekend: Rooms: http://bit.ly/oo4J2 Training: http://bit.ly/3A5AYK Reg: http://bit.ly/2QvoZ #
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.
- PROTECT THE DATA: @taosecurity counters this argument. http://ow.ly/uHL2 http://ow.ly/uHLh http://ow.ly/uHLw http://ow.ly/uHLS #novablogger #
- IS TRANSPARENCY GOOD?: @moranned gets us to contemplate the pros and cons. http://ow.ly/uHO3 #novablogger #
- REDUH: @carnal0wnage posts some more info on this remote access tool. http://ow.ly/uHPg #novablogger #
- RT @geminisecurity: New blog post: Analysis of a Forged Email http://bit.ly/2ueuNL #novablogger #
- SECTOR SLIDES: Here are @rybolov ‘s slides from this con. http://ow.ly/v7PV #novablogger #
In case you missed them, here were some of our blog posts from this week.
- BLOGGED: Grecs’ Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2009-10-15 http://ow.ly/15VfqW #
- BLOGGED: Top 3 NoVA Infosec Blog Posts of the Week http://ow.ly/15Vmut #
- BLOGGED: In Focus: Advertise With Us http://ow.ly/15Vpik #
- BLOGGED: Where You Want to Be This Week – 10-19-09 http://ow.ly/15VQtb #
In case your out work, here are some job openings from this week.
- #job RT @CSOonline: SecurityJobs: Endpoint Security Mgr: Loc: Alexandria, VA Responsibilities Build & manage.. http://bit.ly/3A1gs8 #
- RT @CSOonline: SecurityJobs: Security Analyst C&A: Location: Washington, DCC&A Analyst job description: (3 positi.. http://bit.ly/vytCE #job #
You can also keep yourself busy with these interesting newsbites:
- Looks interesting. RT @mubix: RT @jrc: Mozilla FireFox app for iPhone to come up within few weeks – http://bit.ly/2R5ADY #
- Some analysis on last week’s 3 min remark. RT @briankrebs: President Obama on Cyber Security Awareness http://bit.ly/10w7bL #
- Good reading 4 DojoCon/AppSecDC events coming up. RT @ev3: I like this entry: 10 tech tips 4 tech con attendees: http://bit.ly/2EWkSI #
- Wow! RT @mubix: RT @rwestervelt: Metasploit open source attack platform acquired by Rapid7 http://tinyurl.com/ygwgqys #
- RT @SCMagazine New Cyber Command head: New U.S. Cyber Command will b headed by U.S. Nat Security Agency director.. http://bit.ly/101lJp #
- RT @mubix RT @twittsecurity: Twitter Bug Exposes Private Tweets http://bit.ly/2WElfL // hmm sounds like a job for User Agent Switcher.. #
- I always like these timelines. RT @CyberSecurity09: Good Timeline – Some key events in history of cyber warfare http://ow.ly/uN18 #
And in closing, we’ve got a video to share!!
- Always a good watch. RT @VRT_Sourcefire: October 2009 Vulnerability Report http://retwt.me/YiAP #
Well, that’s all for this week. Be sure to follow us @grecs for more great tweets during the week!
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