If you’re getting a little tired of the debates surrounding the Cybersecurity issue, you’ll find the posts we selected for this week’s “Top NoVA Infosec Blog Posts” refreshing. #3 – The Art of Persuasion: In his post “Recognizing False Arguments,” @electricfork outlines the familiar arguments that many of us hear when we try to convince...
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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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In the past few days I’ve come across of two articles that, according to their titles, seem to imply that the problem of software security is practically solved. In the article ”Software security: Software Security Comes of Age,” Gary McGraw discusses the numbers and stats behind general software security, the increased use of code scanning...
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It was a busy week for local NoVA infosec bloggers, with posts discussing everything from pen testing to VMWare, as well as an interesting v-blog post about how you can take the initiative to anoint yourself an expert. And for those of you who like a little trivia to start your day with, do you...
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Update: The OWASP – VA Local Chapter infosec meetup taking place tomorrow has two newly added speakers for the panel portion of the meetup: @wadew and Nate Miller of Stratum Security. For more information about the OWASP – VA Local Chapter, see its description in our Infosec Meetups section, or view our original post about the meetup. Also, don’t forget...
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After a brief break in March, the OWASP – VA Local Chapter is back this month with a meetup and corresponding panel discussion on Wednesday, April 8th. The panel discussion will be lead by NoVA’s own Wade Woolwine, and the 50-minute presentation will be given by Jeremiah Grossman of Whitehat Security. Grossman will open the meetup...
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