NovaInfosecPortal.com » NoVA Email Lists/Networking http://www.novainfosecportal.com News, events, & resources for infosec professionals in NoVA, DC, & MD Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:00:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Grecs’ Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2010-07-22 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/26/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-22/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/26/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-22/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/22/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-22/ If you’re not already following some of our excellent NovaInfosec Twits and are wondering where to get the best NoVA-, DC-, and MD-related security tweets, look no further than this post. Published every Friday (usually ;) ), our “Infosec Ramblings” post takes many of my security tweets/RTs from the past week and puts them into one easy to digest post. And if you don’t want to wait an entire week, just stop on by my @grecs Twitter account.

[Sorry but I haven't had time to summarize this like I usually do but just wanted to get it off my plate so I can focus on more important things (like prepping for BSidesLV and Defcon). Anyway enjoy the dump and be sure to say hi if you are going to be in Vegas this week. Grecs]

Well, that’s all for this week. Be sure to follow me on Twitter at @grecs for more great tweets during the week! See ya…

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/26/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-22/feed/ 3 Grecs’ Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2010-07-15 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/16/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-15/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/16/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-15/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/15/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-15/ Bla Bla BlaIf you’re not already following some of our excellent NovaInfosec Twits and are wondering where to get the best NoVA-, DC-, and MD-related security tweets, look no further than this post. Published every Friday, our “Infosec Ramblings” post takes many of my security tweets/RTs from the past week and puts them into one easy to digest post. And if you don’t want to wait an entire week, just stop on by my @grecs Twitter account.

There aren’t a lot of meetups going on due to summer vacations but a summary and an event did pop up.

But have no fear … more meetups are coming…

  • #MEETUP State of the Hack: M-Trends- The Advanced Persistent Threat, 7/20 at 6:30 PM (via @dallendoug @Mandiant @issa_dc) #
  • #MEETUP Not going to Defcon? Need a pity party? Good news! Charmsec 27 is Thur, July 29th 7:00PM at @Slaintepub (via @charmsec) #

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?

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.

In case you missed them, here were some of our blog posts from this week.

As usual there are lots of education, career enhancement, and potential job opportunities floating around.

And in closing, you can also keep yourself busy with these interesting articles and newsbites:

Well, that’s all for this week. Be sure to follow me on Twitter at @grecs for more great tweets during the week! See ya…

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/16/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-15/feed/ 4 Grecs’ Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2010-07-08 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/09/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-08/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/09/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-08/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:00:00 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/08/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-08/ Bla Bla BlaIf you’re not already following some of our excellent NovaInfosec Twits and are wondering where to get the best NoVA-, DC-, and MD-related security tweets, look no further than this post. Published every Friday, our “Infosec Ramblings” post takes many of my security tweets/RTs from the past week and puts them into one easy to digest post. And if you don’t want to wait an entire week, just stop on by my @grecs Twitter account.

Not many meetups/cons this past week but you can’t beat a free SANS evening and their annual forensics summit.

SANS is on the ball announcing an upcoming conference later this year.

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.

In case you missed them, here were some of our blog posts from this week.

As usual … lots of stuff going on in the government related to infosec…

Some job postings and trends for an infosec career…

And in closing, you can also keep yourself busy with these interesting newsbites:

Well, that’s all for this week. Be sure to follow me on Twitter at @grecs for more great tweets during the week! See ya…

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/09/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-08/feed/ 5 Grecs’ Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2010-07-01 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/02/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-01/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/02/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-01/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:30:00 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/01/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-01/ If you’re not already following some of our excellent NovaInfosec Twits and are wondering where to get the best NoVA-, DC-, and MD-related security tweets, look no further than this post. Published every Friday, our “Infosec Ramblings” post takes many of my security tweets/RTs from the past week and puts them into one easy to digest post. And if you don’t want to wait an entire week, just stop on by my @grecs Twitter account.

There seemed to be quite a few meetups this past week. Did you get to attend any of them? And don’t forget … there are two 2600 meetups later this evening.

  • #MEETUP Holy heck! Look at time! CapSec is NEXT WED! Stetson’s, 1610 U Street, around 5, yadda yadda. See you there! (via @capsecdc) #
  • #MEETUP W/ so much going on, we’re testing waters w/ meetup grp 2 get word out. Join at http://bit.ly/dze4dW (via @hacdc) #
  • Reminder: InfraGard NCMA Meetup @ Tue Jun 29 6pm – 8:30pm (NovaInfosecPortal.com Calendar) (via @novainfosec) #
  • #MEETUP Updated our meetup URL since last tweet! Join our meetup grp. “Use your brain again.” http://bit.ly/beQktG (via @hacdc) #
  • Reminder: CapSecDC Meetup @ Wed Jun 30 6pm – 9pm (NovaInfosecPortal.com Calendar) (via @novainfosec) #

If you didn’t have time to make it to any of the weekly security meetups, why not try attending one of these upcoming conferences?

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.

In case you missed them, here were some of our blog posts from this week.

I noticed a lot of career-related information as well as a number of job posts.

And if you work in the federal government space, you’ll definitely want to take a look at these posts.

And in closing, you can also keep yourself busy with these interesting newsbites:

Well, that’s all for this week. And hey, you should congratulate me for not mentioning the “L” word. And I only mentioned the “F” word once. :) Anyway, be sure to follow me on Twitter at @grecs for more great tweets during the week! See ya…

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/02/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-07-01/feed/ 4 Grecs’ Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2010-06-24 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/24/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-24/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/24/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-24/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:00:00 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/24/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-24/ If you’re not already following some of our excellent NovaInfosec Twits and are wondering where to get the best NoVA-, DC-, and MD-related security tweets, look no further than this post. Published every Friday, our “Infosec Ramblings” post takes many of my security tweets/RTs from the past week and puts them into one easy to digest post. And if you don’t want to wait an entire week, just stop on by my @grecs Twitter account.

There were a few meetups this past week. Did you get to attend any of them?

If you didn’t have time to make it to any of the weekly security meetups, were you at least able to hit some of the local conferences?

  • #CON Who’s coming to Gartner security in DC tonight/this week? /via @Shpantzer #
  • #CON On my way 2 Software Assurance Working Groups #SwA /via @dallendoug [Sounds like fun. I need co that supports such things.] #

For those of you that don’t know, we have some excellent infosec bloggers in the local area. You can check out some of their articles below.

In case you missed them, here were some of our blog posts from this week.

And this whole LIGATT thing broke big time. I hope next week not to have an entire section dedicated to this guy…

More importantly there’s been a lot of progress in enacting a cybersec law. For a quick review of the whole process, you may want to check this video out.

And on other government news…

And if you haven’t heard, this fancy new mobile OS and phone were released this week. … No, I didn’t get one yet but as you can tell below I did do the OS upgrade.

  • Any1 notice passcode being disabled after upgrading to iOS4? I had it set in 3.x but now it’s disabled by default. #
  • Also noticed podcasts that deleted earlier reappearing after upgr to #ios4. #
  • More #ios4 upgr annoyances.. Some cool cover art lost. No custom background on 3G. No multitasking on 3G. Total unread email counts off. #
  • “The Complete Guide to Using iOS 4″ http://bit.ly/bnsYMP (via @jaysonstreet) [Enjoyed reading.] #
  • Apple #iOS4 deals w/ 60+ Vulns http://bit.ly/biO7Vq (via @jaysonstreet @CyberCrime101) [Now the security stuff.] #
  • Apple Collecting/Sharing iPhone Users’ Precise Locations http://bit.ly/a5OYwh (via @techsavvy @Shpantzer) [And then privacy issues.] #
  • iPhone Encryption in iOS4 .. few extra steps U must take 2 mk it actually work http://bit.ly/dAHIuA (via @IBMFedCyber) [Good 2 know.] #
  • iPhone iOS 4 Security http://bit.ly/ah3qwM (via @DrInfoSec @georgevhulme) [Step in right dir but far fr where need 2 go.] #
  • Re iOS 4 security .. Can’t we just have full “disk” encryption? #
  • & what’s w/ weird backup/restore/run around circle/reset/throw salt over shoulder thing we need 2 do? & that’s just 2 get sucky encryption. #
  • I mean come on .. I thought Apple was known for this whole magical simple and usable thing. I feel like I’m back on a PC. :) #

You can also keep yourself busy with these interesting newsbites:

And in closing, who could forget the tweet of the week?

Well, that’s all for this week. Be sure to follow me on Twitter at @grecs for more great tweets during the week! See ya…

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/24/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-24/feed/ 8 Grecs’ Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2010-06-17 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/17/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-17/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/17/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-17/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:00:00 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/17/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-17/ If you’re not already following some of our excellent NovaInfosec Twits and are wondering where to get the best NoVA-, DC-, and MD-related security tweets, look no further than this post. Published every Friday, our “Infosec Ramblings” post takes many of my security tweets/RTs from the past week and puts them into one easy to digest post. And if you don’t want to wait an entire week, just stop on by my @grecs Twitter account.

There were a few events this past week. Did you get to attend any of them?

  • Just got back from @novahackers. Gr8 talks as usual .. except the first one kinda sucked. ;) #
  • #MEETUP Learn electronics at HacDC! Our class starts tonight at 7PM and goes for 8-10 weeks. No prior XP needed. http://bit.ly/amd2fc #
  • #CON Pen Test Summit 2010 Thoughts/Summary http://bit.ly/8ZCbJc (via @pauldotcom) [Sum of of con earlier this week in Balt.] #

Here’s an upcoming meetup for those of you who are interested.

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.

In case you missed them, here were some of our blog posts from this week.

And this guy is just too “ligatt” to quit…

  • Review of ‘How 2 Become The Worlds No 1 Hacker’ http://bit.ly/bmTJ9l #LIGATT (via @benrothke @schuetzdj) [More #LIGATT fun.] #
  • RT @dallendoug: If we can get ATT 2 sue LIGATT, we’ve got win! RT @danielkennedy74 @LIGATT Step 2) Predict seq num <- Plagiarizing Goatse #
  • RT @LIGATT: If there is another computer hacker better than me…please stand up or shut the hell up! #
  • RT @cktricky: RT @LigattHaxx0r: Hacking Tip # 13- Use a different password for your Twitter and Facebook accounts. <~Lol, nice <- +1 #
  • Here U go http://bit.ly/99bodu :D (via @Equix3n @bitkitty) [Here's Ligatt BSing it a/b women. Whatever. :) ] #

In more pertinent things that went on this past week, there were plenty of career discussions and suggestions to improve yourself.

And of course there was a lot going related to cyber security in the federal government.

You can also keep yourself busy with these interesting newsbites:

And in closing, who could forget the tweet of the week?

Well, that’s all for this week. Be sure to follow me on Twitter at @grecs for more great tweets during the week! See ya…

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/17/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-17/feed/ 5 Grecs’ Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2010-06-10 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/14/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-10/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/14/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-10/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:00:00 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/10/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-10/ If you’re not already following some of our excellent NovaInfosec Twits and are wondering where to get the best NoVA-, DC-, and MD-related security tweets, look no further than this post. Published every Friday (well Monday this week), our “Infosec Ramblings” post takes many of my security tweets/RTs from the past week and puts them into one easy to digest post. And if you don’t want to wait an entire week, just stop on by my @grecs Twitter account.

There seemed to be quite a few meetups this past week. Did you get to attend any of them?

  • #MEETUP Looking forward 2 cing every HacDC member (& potential member) at mo member meeting 2morrow, 6/8 7:30PM! /via @hacdc #
  • #MEETUP Reminder — This Wed! #OWASPDC at 6:30 on 7/9 at 2201 G St. NW, Rm 553D GWU Campus in Foggy Bottom (via @owaspdc) #
  • #MEETUP C U TONIGHT! #OWASPDC at 6:30, 2201 G St. NW, Rm 553D GWU Campus in Foggy Bottom, going for drinks after.. (via @owaspdc) #
  • #MEETUP Alex Meisel http://bit.ly/aATuOQ speaking at @owaspdc on distrib WAFs. @rybolov answers some of hard questions (via @Shpantzer) #

There’s also some upcoming meetups for those of you who are interested.

If you don’t have time to make it to any of the weekly security meetups, why not plan on attending AppSecDC in November?

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.

In case you missed them, here were some of our blog posts from this week.

And Ligatt seems to be all over Twitter as well…

  • Now there’s @FakeLIGATT. Wonder if Twitter will cave & shut that 1 down, too. (via @quine) [Excellent!] #
  • RT @FakeLIGATT: Yo twitter, hook me up with a new logo. #1 Hacker needs a new look (via @rybolov) [Lol.] #
  • ROFL! Full page #LIGATT ad in new hackin9.. http://bit.ly/d7W1dF (via @kodefupanda) [Have U stopped laughing yet?] #
  • My 1 star review of “How To Become The Worlds No. 1 Hacker” http://amzn.to/d62J5W (via @jack_mannino) [Nice job Jack.] #

And of course we have our usual stream of government related stuff going on.

There seemed to be a lot of job/career stuff out there too.

Here are some quick how-to’s that were floating around there last week.

And in closing, you can also keep yourself busy with these interesting newsbites:

Well, that’s all for this week. Be sure to follow me on Twitter at @grecs for more great tweets during the week! See ya…

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/14/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-10/feed/ 4 Grecs’ Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2010-06-03 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/04/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-03/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/04/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-03/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:00:00 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/03/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-03/ If you’re not already following some of our excellent NovaInfosec Twits and are wondering where to get the best NoVA-, DC-, and MD-related security tweets, look no further than this post. Published every Friday, our “Infosec Ramblings” post takes many of my security tweets/RTs from the past week and puts them into one easy to digest post. And if you don’t want to wait an entire week, just stop on by my @grecs Twitter account.

There seemed to be … aaaahhhh … one meetup this past week. Did you get to attend it? (Of course tonight two local 2600s will be in action.)

There’s also an upcoming meetup I tweeted three times about for those of you who are interested.

If you don’t have time to make it to any of the weekly security meetups, why not try attending this upcoming conference? It’s sort of a big deal. :)

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.

In case you missed them, here were some of our blog posts from this week.

And if you haven’t heard, I am trying to clean up my Twitter stream a bit.

  • Trying to clean up my Twitter stream some. From now on.. #
  • ..#NOVABLOGGER tweet stream & other related website stuff is only going 2 b published on @novainfosec instead of both @novainfosec & @grecs. #
  • Please follow @novainfosec 2 continue receiving website-related updates. Just trying to mk @grecs a bit more personal focused. #

NIST is busy as usual.

And Facebook gets its own category again…

And in place of LIGATT, who has apparently been shamed out of the press, we have tons of Google news.

  • Heh. Google moving to Mac/Linux internally http://bit.ly/95YKFh (via @schuetzdj) [Cool. Don't know if would stop APT tho.] #
  • Re Google phasing out Windows.. Maybe it’ll just make other companies more attractive targets. That whole bear thing.. #
  • Poll: Would U consider phasing out Win in your org due 2 security? http://bit.ly/a9sE06 [After 7 hours .. 17% Yes 78% No] #
  • Google Browser Targets Fed Market http://bit.ly/bDRY0d (via @DrInfoSec) [Interesting. Looking 2 get Google Apps FISMA certified.] #

You can also keep yourself busy with these other interesting newsbites:

And in closing, who could forget the tweet of the week?

Well, that’s all for this week. Be sure to follow me on Twitter at @grecs for more great tweets during the week! See ya…

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/04/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-06-03/feed/ 4 Grecs’ Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2010-05-27 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/05/29/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-05-27/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/05/29/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-05-27/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 16:00:00 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/05/27/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-05-27/ If you’re not already following some of our excellent NovaInfosec Twits and are wondering where to get the best NoVA-, DC-, and MD-related security tweets, look no further than this post. Published every Friday, our “Infosec Ramblings” post takes many of my security tweets/RTs from the past week and puts them into one easy to digest post. And if you don’t want to wait an entire week, just stop on by my @grecs Twitter account.

There seemed to be quite a few meetups and conferences this past week. Did you get to attend any of them?

  • #MEETUP #25: ~25 folks, epic @shpantzer v. @electricfork cage match, @grantstavely skipping town, CTF qual-chatter, &c. (via @charmsec) #
  • #MEETUP RT @capsecdc: CapSec is Next Week! 26-May at Stetson’s, 1610 U St NW! http://bit.ly/9WhjR7 or on Upcoming at http://bit.ly/bdYesS #
  • Reminder: SecureAmericas Conference @ Mon May 24 – Tue May 25, 2010 (NovaInfosecPortal.com Calendar) #
  • Reminder: ISSA Baltimore Meetup @ Wed May 26 4:30pm – 6:30pm (NovaInfosecPortal.com Calendar) #
  • Reminder: CapSecDC Meetup @ Wed May 26 6pm – 9pm (NovaInfosecPortal.com Calendar) #
  • #MEETUP CapSecDC, Wed. 26 May 2010, Stetson’s, 1610 U St NW Wash, DC 20009, 5 p.m. – (via @capsecdc @sabletek) [2 more hours!] #

There’s also some upcoming meetups for those of you who are interested.

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?

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.

In case you missed them, here were some of our blog posts from this week.

And here are a few of our friendly reminders…

There was so much talk about LIGATT this week, there getting their own section. When is this company and the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest hacker” going to go away?

Not to be outdone by LIGATT, Facebook probably won this week with all the latest privacy brouhaha.

And in closing, you can also keep yourself busy with these interesting newsbites:

Well, that’s all for this week. Be sure to follow me on Twitter at @grecs for more great tweets during the week! See ya…

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/05/29/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-05-27/feed/ 9 Grecs’ Weekly Infosec Ramblings for 2010-05-20 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/05/21/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-05-20/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/05/21/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-05-20/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 19:00:00 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/05/20/grecs-weekly-infosec-ramblings-for-2010-05-20/ If you’re not already following some of our excellent NovaInfosec Twits and are wondering where to get the best NoVA-, DC-, and MD-related security tweets, look no further than this post. Published every Friday, our “Infosec Ramblings” post takes many of my security tweets/RTs from the past week and puts them into one easy to digest post. And if you don’t want to wait an entire week, just stop on by my @grecs Twitter account.

Well, that’s all for this week. Be sure to follow me on Twitter at @grecs for more great tweets during the week! See ya…

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