The first day of the GovSec Expo & Conference event was held at the Washington DC Convention Center yesterday. It featured a rich variety of topics and focused on various IT solutions and critical technology. The conference delivered topics from different security sectors, including cloud computing, cyber security, data center and virtualization, and defense...
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I know that most of you already saw the announcement I posted yesterday, but I want to make sure that nobody ends up at Capital College tonight and wonders where DojoSec is. Marcus said that the August DojoSec will be happening as planned, so be sure to mark your calendars accordingly!
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As far as we can tell, the good folks at DojoSec haven’t yet posted the full details for their meetup this Thursday, July 2nd. While we know that Matt Fisher of Piscis LLC will be giving the keynote speech, it seems like the rest of the meetup is going to be a surprise. But...
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For any of you who work with, or are interested in, smartphone exploitation, the ISSA – Baltimore Chapter meetup this upcoming Wednesday is a must-attend event. According to the ISSA – Baltimore website, “his talk describes recent work on vulnerability discovery and exploit development for smartphones. A number of case studies will be presented...
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If you’re a fan of meetups like CharmSec or the 2600 Group meetups, you might want to give CapSecDC a try. CapSecDC meetups are low-key gatherings that allow you to meet other security professionals without the pressure of traditional security meetups. We’ve heard that it’s a lot of fun, so be sure to check...
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For those of you who didn’t get to read our last post, Baltimore Node is a newly formed group that is trying to create a hackerspace in the Baltimore area. (Kind of like HacDC.) They had their initial meeting on June 11th, and they’re having a follow-up meeting today. We know it’s kind of...
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HacDC is known for their great meetups, and their OpenStreetMap Mapping Party this Saturday is no exception. Starting at 9am and going until 5pm, be ready to learn a whole lot of new information as the good folks at HacDC show those who attend how to use OpenStreetMap—a free and open map of the...
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If you’re interested in being part of a hackerspace but haven’t had the chance to make it down to the HacDC facility in Washington, DC, there may be—for some of you, anyways—a more geographically favorable location opening up pretty soon. The newly formed group Baltimore Node just had their first meeting on June 11th...
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This week we are featuring a new NoVA Blogger, @geminisecurity. Please take a moment to check out their Twitter feed and welcome them to the local infosec community. While he doesn’t have a post featured this week, we would also like to introduce local NoVA blogger @bobgourley. Please take a moment to visit his...
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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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