Here’s something that most of us around DC have to worry about … either directly or indirectly through our enterprise users. First it was a spiked PDF document disguised as a CFP. A few days later it was a list of conference attendees in a booby-trapped ZIP file. Now it’s back to malicious PDF...
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Here’s another edition of the Weekly Rewind, where we post out a quick summary of industry articles you seemed to like as well as our stories from the past week. If you missed anything or happened to be offline, we hope you find this post useful as a reference. Industry Articles Possible Governmental Backdoor...
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Wow, an actual second podcast! In this episode we discuss the beginning of the Mac malware cat and mouse game, how attacking critical infrastructure can be considered an act of war, the recent spat of defense contractors getting attacked, a new tool called FaceSniff, a run down of local events, and much more. Download...
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I just want to shoot out a quick post letting you all know that over the past two weeks I’ve been experimenting with some podcast editing here and there. Well I think all the hard work paid off as I was able to cut about 30 minutes out bringing it down to 42 minutes....
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Welcome to our first ever podcast that a some of us having been thinking of doing the past few months. After a few practice tries we finally got one out! Anyway, in this episode we discuss some general infosec news, rant on video game policies, and talk about some recent government happenings as well...
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Every once in a while an opportunity presents itself to affect some real change in federal information security practice. Now is such a time. A slew of new NIST documents are being released between now and April. These are the core NIST documents that describe how to satisfy FISMA. They include NIST SPs 800-30 Revision...
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This week, local bloggers tackle the ’80 percent’ myth, the end of the interwebs as we know it, and why FDCC isn’t just cool, but magical. #3 – The Magic of FDCC: Responding to a post by Bruce Schneier, @rybolov sets out to discover the real ‘magic’ of FDDC in the midst of all...
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