It is with sad news that I announce that we are being forced to close down NovaInfosecPortal.com. Apparently we’ve angered a well funded local political organization through one of our blog posts or tweets and are being threatened with a lawsuit. Given that myself and several other people have run this site on a...
Read more »

Bored over the holidays and looking for something to do? You an infosec professional that lives or works in NoVA, DC, and MD? Got a topic you want to talk about but no where to post it? Don’t have time to maintain a full time blog? Well then we have the answer for you! NovaInfosecPortal.com regularly accepts articles from various...
Read more »

Notice anything different on our calendar? Well it’s a lot more easy to look at. We made the tough decision earlier this week to cut out two of the hacker spaces – HacDC and Baltimore Node – from the calendar as they just have so many events, it sort of overtook the entire calendar....
Read more »

The folks over at Pauldotcom are participating in the Momember movement. This looks like so much fun and for such a good cause, I thought I’d join and see if there was any interest in anyone else wanting to join a team. Check out the NovaInfosecers Team page or my personal Mo Space page...
Read more »

Like we said in our “In Focus: Help Us Help You,” post, we love working on this site and getting the chance to enrich the lives of local security professionals. In an ideal world, that would be enough to keep it going. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you need resources to keep things...
Read more »

Job Description: Gemini Security Solutions is looking for a computer hacker. Our employees are all ‘computer hackers’. We don’t ‘hack in’ to systems, we just enjoy spending lots of quality time in front of the computer. We’re looking for a person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their...
Read more »

Where do you want to be this week? Now you’ll always know with our “Where You Want to Be This Week” feature, which will tell you about infosec meetups happening in your local area as of Sunday night. Monday – HacDC Infosec Meetup Monday, 09-28: Microcontroller Mondays (Washington, DC) Tuesday – Baltimore Node...
Read more »

We know that a lot of your get your news from our site and other sites through an RSS feed or other subscription service, so we realize that you may not have seen the new look of our site. If you have a minute, why not pop over to the actual site? … Looks different, doesn’t...
Read more »

Where do you want to be this week? Now you’ll always know with our “Where You Want to Be This Week” feature, which will tell you about infosec meetups happening in your local area.   Monday – HacDC Infosec Meetup Monday, 09-21: Microcontroller Mondays (Washington, DC) Tuesday – Baltimore Node Meetup Tuesday, 09-22: Normal Meeting...
Read more »

While we’ve talked about a lot of different features of the site up to this point, all of them really pale in comparison to our “Help Us Help You” page. It’s the page that allows us to keep everything—the Calendar, the event posts, the Top NoVA Bloggers—going. As many of you already know, this...
Read more »