Recently, we were asked by security professional @oneguynick who he should follow on Twitter, and how he can get involved in the local security community. oneguynick @grecs I moved to NOVA in Jan. Can your recommend other people to follow in our community near here? Want to get more involved. While we haven’t talked...
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Tags: grecs, infosec, local-security, local-security-bloggers, local-security-professionals, networking, novainfosec twits, security, twitter
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It’s no secret that we here at NovaInfosecPortal like to provide useful information to security professional that live and work in the NoVA, MD, and DC area. You don’t have to look much further than our Resource pages and Event pages to see that. But recently we realized that, despite having all of this...
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Tags: calendar, dc, Events, google-calendar, html, ical, infosec, md, nova, novainfosecportal, Resources, security, security-calendar-of-events, security-events, xml
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If you haven’t already heard about the awesome work that Johnny Long and the other members of Hackers for Charity are doing, I highly encourage you to check it out. I know that I have been blown away on multiple occasions when I’ve read about their dedication to helping children in impoverished countries by...
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Tags: africa, charities, do-some-good, donations, hackers-for-charity, johnny-long, mission-trips
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For those of you who haven’t heard already, we are giving away free, gently used security books during the next month or so to those of you who follow us on Twitter. If you don’t already follow us on Twitter, you can find us @grecs. However, it seems that we had a repeat of...
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Tags: books, cliff-stoll, contest, cuckoos-egg, dc, giveaway, grecs, hacking-exposed, md, nova, security-books, twitter
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For those of you who didn’t see the post last week, we are giving away free, gently used security books during the next month or so to those of you who follow us on Twitter. If you don’t already follow us on Twitter, you can find us @grecs. To win a book, you will...
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Tags: books, cliff-stoll, cuckoos-egg, hacking-exposed, joel-scambray, mike-shema, security-books, twitter, web-application-security
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In an attempt to spread some awesome infosec literature to the local security community (and perhaps gain a few new Twitter followers in the process), we will be having a free book giveaway via Twitter of some classic security books. Starting this week, we be giving away one book per week for the next...
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Tags: books, cliff-stoll, contest, cuckoos-egg, giveaway, infosec-books, twitter
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NovaInfosecPortal is currently looking for a motivated college student who is interested in pursuing a career in the computer security field to participate in a summer internship. The internship requires a time commitment of 5-10 hours a week for a 3-month period between the months of May and August. While the internship is unpaid,...
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Tags: call-for-internship, computer-security, Events, infosec, interns, internship, internship-opportunity
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After many requests to have our Full Calendar page support XML and iCAL feeds, we have ported everything over to a public Google Calendar. Because having these feeds pulls you away our site, we ask that you still visit our site to get additional details about events posted on the calendar, or consider sponsoring the...
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Tags: calendar, conference, dc, event, infosec, md, meetup, nova
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Since the last NovaInfosec Twits post there have been a lot of updates to the NovaInfosec Twits page that everyone may find useful. First off, we’ve sloooooowly been adding people… The list is still quite small but we hope that it continues to grow. To be added to NovaInfosec Twits, just message @grecs that...
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Tags: hashtag, infosec, network security, networking, nova, novainfosec twits, retweet, Social Media, twit directory, twitter
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We are looking for NoVA professionals who would be interested in doing periodic blog postings related to infosec in our area. This isn’t intended for those that already have blogs (however if you have a blog and want to repost, we have no problems with that); instead it is for those that would like...
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Tags: infosec, nova, novafocus, submission
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