No week would be complete if we didn’t start off with some highlights from our tweets last week. With everything from ‘twitterfail’ to hacking your career like a certified ninja, these are the tweets that you don’t want to miss. Speaking of tweets however… it seems like a lot of people aren’t too happy with...
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DarkReading recently published an interesting article entitled “BT Study: Most Enterprises Expect to Get Hacked This Year.” I’d say that that’s a safe assumption, since in the case of most large organizations, their electronic footprint is everywhere.  When you pair that with unmanaged parts of an organization setting up servers and machines, accounting for all...
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Where can you find a book review, information about the 60-day security review, and humorous commentary about the Verizon report all in one place? This post, of course. Finding the best posts by local security bloggers, we do our best to make your Mondays a little more interesting. # 3 – Hack This Book Again: It...
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While there’s a fairly large stigma that security professionals have eyes only for their computers, we do read books (every once in a while, that is).   WICKED COOL RUBY SCRIPTS: Book rev by @carnal0wnage. Good read 4 Ruby devs. http://tinyurl.com/c62thd #novablogger # GRAY HAT PYTHON: Another book review from @carnal0wnage; this time focusing on python. http://tinyurl.com/ce2gxb #novablogger # But,...
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If you haven’t had the opportunity to check out some of NoVA’s local security bloggers, here’s your chance. We’ve found the cream of the crop, making it easier for you to identify bloggers you like and information you need. This week, we’ve picked posts that cover everything from books to careers. There’s also some congratulations...
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So, what was on everyone’s minds this week? Spam… and the Swine Flu, apparently. Leave it to the spammers to take advantage of a horrible situation. Spammers will def b doing. RT @mckeay srt planning 4 the impact of the swine flu, as well as the spam that will inevitably srt circulating # Here comes the...
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Somewhere, the creators of Adobe Reader are weeping. And if they’re not, it won’t be long until they do; with all of the recent vulnerabilities swirling around Adobe Reader, things are going from bad to worse. But just how bad is bad? According to CNET, at the RSA security conference earlier this month, F-Secure Chief Research Officer...
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