Well people, it’s the final day of ShmooCon; for those of you who are still nursing hangovers and information overloads, you have my sympathies. While none of the talks today will be providing alcohol (at least, not that I’m aware of), they will give you a final chance to cram your brain with some interesting...
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In my last post (”Friday Recommendations“), I discussed some of the official and unofficial activities on Friday and summarized a few things that I’m going to focus on. There are some great planned talks as well as the Podcaster’s Meetup, the FireTalks, and a meetup party courtesy of HacDC. In this post, I’m going to...
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While I already updated my “ShmooCon 2009 Guide – Friday Recommendations,” post, I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of the schedule changes for this Friday at ShmooCon. According to Podcasters Meetup, the live show, book signing, and FireTalks on Friday will be happening later than originally planned. Setup will now start at 7:30pm, with...
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In my last two posts (“Up to this Point” and “General Advice”) I looked at the events leading up to this week and general advice for getting the most out of the conference. In this post I’m going to look at some of the different talks and activities going on Friday.  As part of this...
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In my last post (Up to this Point), I looked at the events leading up to this week, including basic logistics, ticket sales, and how to arrange last-minute airfare and hotel reservations. In this post, I want to touch on some general advice as well as ways of keeping up-to-date during the conference. This will be my third year at...
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With only two more weeks to go until the conference begins, here’s my first post in a series of four blog posts that will help prepare those of you attending the con. It’s been an interesting month of events leading up to ShmooCon this February; we’ve had the CFPs, three and a half rounds of...
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Just a quick reminder that Computer Security Day is being celebrated tomorrow (even though the actual date in 11/30). So be sure to raise awareness of computer related security issues around the office! One idea would be to download, printout, and hang some of the posters from the Computer Security Day web site. See...
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Just a quick reminder that the second round of tickets for the ShmooCon infosec conference event go on sale tomorrow (Monday, December 1st) at noon EST. If you miss that round, you’ll only have one more chance in January to get your tickets. Also, just in case you missed the announcement in the last...
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Just a quick reminder that the OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 infosec conference event is next week. The agenda and speakers are ready and they’ve even made a recent venue change to the Park Central New York Hotel to accomodate more people. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to make it this year, but we’ll be...
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