Johannes Ullrich had a nice post the other day on the ISC Dairy where he pondered “Are All Networks Vulnerable?” in light of the recent spate of Lulzsec successes. In short the answer is yes. In most cases it is too cost or use prohibitive to implement perfect security. In the part of the...
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What beats a week of security training with your peers? Not much. That’s why SANSFIRE 2009 is an event that you should add to your calendar right now, before you get distracted by any other pesky summer plans. Taking place in Baltimore this year, SANSFIRE will be held between June 13th and 22nd at...
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So, what was on everyone’s minds this week? Spam… and the Swine Flu, apparently. Leave it to the spammers to take advantage of a horrible situation. Spammers will def b doing. RT @mckeay srt planning 4 the impact of the swine flu, as well as the spam that will inevitably srt circulating # Here...
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Just a quick reminder that the SANS AppSec event is today, April 29th. For more information about SANS, see its description in our Infosec Conferences section. View our Calendar for a list of similar infosec events in and around the NoVA area. See our original post for more information about this meetup.
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Have you registered for the SANS AppSec event yet? If not, there’s still time left to purchase your registration. While the event starts tomorrow, April 29th, registration is still open. You can purchase your registration through our SANS section (just click on the SANS image to be taken to the official website), which won’t...
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This week was awash with new studies that generated a great deal of buzz about what’s right, and what’s not so right, about current security practices. For those of you who haven’t seen the reports yet (or don’t have the desire to read through 90-page documents), here’s a quick breakdown. Releasing its annual Data...
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Have you been wanting to support NovaInfosecPortal, but don’t have money to spare? The good news is that we have partnered with SANS to make it easier for you to support the site by purchasing your SANS training through NovaInfosecPortal. You don’t have to do anything special—just be sure to visit our Help Us...
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SANS will be starting their Cyber Defense Initiative Conference infosec event next week as well. It looks like they’ll be holding 11 training sessions. If you can’t make any of the training events, check out their Vendor Expo for free on 12/12 from 12:00 – 1:30pm and 5:00 – 7:00pm. Registration is still required...
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As many of you probably already know SANS will be running the SANSFIRE infosec conference event later this month. Here are the logistics for this year’ conference:
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