As you may have seen in our announcement post or on our Calendar, the GovSec Expo & Conference is coming up in two weeks! The event includes three tracks that touch on infosec but one is entirely dedicated to Cybersecurity and Information Assurance. Additionally on the Expo floor, they will have two special areas...
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So I’m finally getting around to getting this post out… I just wanted to close this whole series by announcing the winners and again thanking everyone for helping make it a success. As you can see below, I’ve only gotten links to a few presentations. If you still need to post your presentation, please let...
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It’s hard to believe it’s been a year already but the 1105 Government Group is readying their GovSec Expo & Conference event for next month. The Expo will feature some of the newest tools and technologies related to incident prevention and hazard/disaster response. The best thing of all is that the Expo is FREE...
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With our monthly “Upcoming Conferences” feature, we’ll tell you about infosec conferences that are happening at least 3 months out in your local area. Here to make sure that a conference never sneaks up on you again, this feature makes sure that you’ll have plenty of time to plan and register. If you would like...
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Not too much has happened since last week … just tons of small stuff. We are still looking for some “prop” sponsors as well as alternate speakers. Also there are a few logistical changes we wanted to announce. Read on for all the details… Sponsors Most of the sponsorship opportunities have been covered however we are...
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With ShmooCon only a few days away and things getting announced left and right, we thought we’d put together a little plan of what we wanted to focus on. It didn’t take long to figure out that since there was just so much going on, we should probably create a little one page cheat...
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Something amazing happened yesterday so we thought we’d take this opportunity to pass it along to help benefit the our community (and us ). It has allowed us to offer a ShmooCon internship that includes the following benefits: Free ShmooCon Barcode Free Shared “Crash” Accommodations for 2 Nights at Wardman Park Marriott Hotel in the...
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Well our call for sponsors last week was a huge success! Again we’d like to thank everyone for RTing or otherwise getting the word out. In the meantime if you are a sponsor or know of people still looking to get involved in ShmooCon, check out the Podcasters Meetup’s latest post. Now on to the...
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Not much has changed from last week’s update… All the speaker slots are still full… We still have 2 alternative talks… Got space and support from the ShmooCon organizers… Everything is going to get recorded… And we are getting tons of support from the infosec community – thanks again to everyone… As you can...
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Based on last year’s series of posts, we came up with an ingenious naming scheme of Update 1, Updated 2, etc. for update posts related to this year’s Firetalks. These posts will just contain the new stuff and all this information will be incorporated back into the master ShmooCon 2010 Firetalks post...
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