NovaInfosecPortal.com » NoVA Meetups http://www.novainfosecportal.com News, events, & resources for infosec professionals in NoVA, DC, & MD Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 NoVA Hackers Dinner Wrap-Up http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/03/10/nova-hackers-dinner-wrap-up/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/03/10/nova-hackers-dinner-wrap-up/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:38:07 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/?p=3499 Last night I attended the NoVA Hackers Association monthly dinner meetup. Instead of having one or two longer talks, this meeting had four shortened 15 minute presentations … often called fireside talks Firetalks. The talks were great and there was plenty of time to catch up with some of the local infosec pros. Approximately 15 people attended the event hosted at ICF International’s corporate headquarters in Fairfax, VA.

After a bit of networking, @elwing started off giving an overview of CACert. This is an open source-styled certificate authority (CA) where your assurance is vouched for through points given by assuruers who check identification documents. There is a basic level certificate you can get with no points similar to the old Thawte-style certificates. Each assurer can give up to 35 points and with 150 points you can also apply to become an assurer. CACert’s root certificate is already present by default in several Linux OSs and the group is working on Firefox and Safari. Getting its root certificate into IE may be a bit harder due to the processing costs of approximately $150,000. They are also looking for volunteers to help out in different roles, e.g., policy writing, developing website workflows, and obtaining placement by default in browsers. Contact @elwing if you’re interested in helping out or what to be assured.

Next, Rob “@mubix” Fuller presented on his frustrations of completeness in doing pen tests and offered some interesting solutions via DNS foo in his talk titled “IP Contra.” Unfortunately, I (or anyone else at the meeting) can’t talk about the details as we had to sign a NDA before he presented. :) But what I can say is that DNS is not geographic!

We all have done a lot of NMAP scans at some point and have been overwhelmed in trying to make sense of all the data you collect over time. Enter Chris “@carnal0wnage” Gates and his talk “Nmap XML Ruby Stuff.” The general idea was a way to push the XML scan results into a database that can be searched. Back in January he started piecing things together and posted some of his initial ideas and code. Since then he’s experimented with several frameworks but ended up just writing his own Ruby implementation. The end result was a fairly complete database for NMAP results with command line searching. Chris continues to evolve his implementation and is looking for help. He’s especially looking for anyone with GUI development experience to write a frontend. Contact @carnal0wnage if you’d like to help or want to try his updated implementation.

Finally, Terrence “@kingtuna” Gareau pulled in a little late but presented and demoed a USB attack on a fully patched Windows computer. He created a Metaspoit module that returns a shell to an attacker by simply inserting a USB drive into a victim computer. Although this is not new, the demo was against a fully patched Windows box. The trick was to add the attack code on the USB drive so it looks like a CD. By default, Windows still autoplays CDs! Enterprises can help protect against this attack by configuring their policy to not autoplay ANY media.

Anyway, that was it for the official talks. There were plenty of great side conversations or “round table talks” (RTTs) as well. NovaHackers may even incorporate this RTT idea into future meetings. Thanks to Lucus and Jonathan of ICS International for setting the facility up, providing refreshments, and organizing dinner. And for future events, check out the NoVA Hackers Association blog. Also, we setup up the @novahackers Twitter account that pushes out tweets whenever Rob and Chris put out new blog posts. This is another great way to keep up with what’s going on with this group.

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There are a lot of other infosec events going on around DC. If you are the sponsoring group or attended one of these meetups or conferences and would like to submit a summary to be posted on this site, please send us a message from our Contact Us page or mention @grecs on Twitter. See ya!

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An open session or career guidance; either of the meet-ups are guaranteed to be good.  If you are looking for career guidance then the ISACA CM meetup is for you otherwise the NOVA Hackers Association meetup is for you.  Anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Monday (3/8)

Wednesday (3/10)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

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We start March slowly and hopefully things will pick up. Not many meetings this week; just normal monthly meetings; please feel free to attend any of them. Anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Thursday (3/4)

Friday (3/5)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

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Tuesday (02/23)

Wednesday (02/24)

Thursday (02/25)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/02/22/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-02-22/feed/ 9 Where You Want to Be This Week for 2010-02-15 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/02/15/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-02-15/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/02/15/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-02-15/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:00:42 +0000 nathiet http://www.novainfosecportal.com/?p=3374 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. If you would like your event listed in our Calendar and in this post, contact us or mention it to @grecs on Twitter.

Due to the snow storm this past week, we weren’t able to post the our local activities but as the weather conditions have greatly improved we are able to continue on. :) Anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Tuesday (2/16)

Wednesday (2/17)

Thursday (2/18)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/02/15/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-02-15/feed/ 6 Where You Want to Be This Week for 2010-02-01 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/02/01/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-02-01/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/02/01/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-02-01/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:00:58 +0000 nathiet http://www.novainfosecportal.com/?p=3301 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. If you would like your event listed in our Calendar and in this post, contact us or mention it to @grecs on Twitter.

Not too much going on this week in terms of meetups. There are plenty of conferences happening though with BlackHat DC, the Cyber Security Conference, and … ShmooCon. Anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Friday (02/05)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

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Wednesday (1/27)

Thursday (1/28)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

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We have a couple of meet ups this week to look forward to, and you can’t go wrong with attending any of them; since they all have good topics. Anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Tuesday (01/19)

Wednesday (01/20)

Thursday (01/21)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/01/18/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-2010-01-17/feed/ 11 Where You Want to Be This Week for 2010-01-11 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/01/11/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-01-11/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/01/11/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-01-11/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:00:55 +0000 nathiet http://www.novainfosecportal.com/?p=3125 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. Speaking of where we’d rather be, last week we got a funny tweet from @wadew.

@grecs I always hope to see “Home in bed, watching TV” as where I want to be. Would help validate my doing nothing at all :)

Yes, I think most of us would agree. :) Anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Monday (01/11)

  • NoVA Hackers Association Meetup – Barcodes (Glory Days Grill)

Tuesday (01/12)

  • Infosec Tweetup – Normal Meeting (Silver Diner)

Wednesday (01/13)

  • ISACA CM Meetup – Seventh Annual Day of Security Training (The Conference Center at the Maritime Institute)
  • Infragard MMA Meetup - Various Discussions (Capital College)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events, or to receive updates on the events listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for more upcoming events.

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We hope you had a wonderful New Year’s celebration. In ‘09 we reported on many events that were happening in our area and we start 2010 with a pair of events on Thursday; hoping that as the year goes on we will pick up more Meetups, anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Thursday (01/07)

  • DojoSec Meetup (Capitol College)
  • OWASP VA Meetup – Various Discussions (Booz Allen (One Dulles Facility))

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events, or to receive updates on the events listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for more upcoming events.

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