This one time at ShmooCamp … I had an urge to start a blog. Well long story short … I came home after a late night at ShmooCon, setup a blog and posted the following article. Welcome to the NovaInfosecPortal – Security News, Events, and Resources for Infosec Professionals in NoVA We’ve been planning...
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I skipped last week but am back for more with another Weekly Rewind post… The industry news is from this past week however our blog posts go back about two weeks to the last Weekly Rewind. Also I didn’t include some of our standard articles due to their time relevancy. For some of those...
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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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I usually don’t get too political however this whole WikiLeaks thing has me going. Yes, releasing information like this is totally wrong. And yes, we must do something to stop it from happening again by limiting access to sensitive information like this. The only problem is that the final “fix” to prevent it from...
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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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There were so many great posts by local bloggers this week that a “Top 3” post just wouldn’t cut it. So here’s our first “Top 5” post—just in time to give you some good holiday reading. #5 – Be Hyper: Marcus J. Carey always has a lot of great things to say in his...
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Two semi-recent articles about medical data being stolen caught my attention because they seemed out of place next to the headlines that decried PowerPoint and Kylin. The articles outline the massive amounts of medical data and patient records that were stolen from UC Berkeley and the Virginia Department of Health Professions last month. Though...
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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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