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Grecs’ Weekend Best Bets for 2012-04-20

April 20, 2012
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Grecs’ Weekend Best Bets for 2012-04-20

Well we decided to continue this for another week since a few people said they found it useful. As I’ve previously noted most local meetups seem to be crowded into weekday evenings with almost nothing on the weekend. The purpose of this post is to advertise some of the smaller events that are occurring...
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More Mobile “Average” Practices

April 19, 2012
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More Mobile “Average” Practices

A few weeks ago I came across a mobile security article entitled “Five Steps to Enhance Mobile Device Security.” In it the author stresses the increasing number of attacks on mobile devices and continues on to point out five steps he thinks will help solve the problem. We’ve touched on articles like this before...
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Where You Want to Be This Week for 04-16-2012

April 16, 2012
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Where You Want to Be This Week for 04-16-2012

Where do you want to be this week? Now you’ll always know with our “Where You Want to Be This Week” feature, which will tell you about infosec meetups happening in your local area as of Sunday night. If you would like your event listed in our Calendar and in this post, let us...
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Grecs’ Weekend Best Bets for 2012-04-13

April 13, 2012
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Grecs’ Weekend Best Bets for 2012-04-13

Just a little something I’d thought I try here. Most meetups seem to be crowded into weekday evenings with almost nothing on the weekend. So I thought I’d start up something to post about  upcoming weekend activities. Most of these events occur at local hackerspaces when for some reason non-hackerspace organizations take a break....
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Hunting for VPNs … Shodan Style

April 12, 2012
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Hunting for VPNs … Shodan Style

I saw VPN Hunter posted on Twitter a few weeks ago and have been meaning to put out a quick post on it. Basically, it is the Shodan of VPNs. Currently it detects SSL VPNs, remote access points, email portals, and generic login sites. Below is a more detailed list of the services VPN...
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Meetup Reminder

April 11, 2012
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Meetup Reminder

Since I did not put out the where you want to be this week post earlier, I decided to put out a meetup reminder so that you know there is a meetup tonight in our area and also if you would like your event listed in our Calendar and in this post, contact us or mention it...
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PHPIDS Slides from AppSecDC Presentation

April 9, 2012
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PHPIDS Slides from AppSecDC Presentation

Last Thursday had the opportunity to give a talk on the PHPIDS install I’ve been running on several blogs for awhile. This was the first time I gave it. There’s still a lot of additional research I need to do here and I’m looking forward to updating this talk in the near future. Anyway,...
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Slides & Career Exploit Kit from AppSecDC Presentation

April 5, 2012
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Slides & Career Exploit Kit from AppSecDC Presentation

Yesterday I had the opportunity to give another one of my infosec career talks … this time AppSecDC. In an effort to better link the general strategic advice we all usually get with more actionable tactical steps, I narrowed the talk to only focus on web application security. This seemed to work well. Anyway,...
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AppSecDC Recap: SharePoint Security 101

April 5, 2012
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AppSecDC Recap: SharePoint Security 101

I’ve written about SharePoint security before and my opinion was that it’s getting much better however they have a lot of insecure stigma to shake off. Additionally, securing it can be done however it may become very cumbersome to manage in large environments. Rob Rachwald’s talk pretty much confirmed my thoughts but also led me...
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Where’s Grecs? At AppSecDC Of Course.

April 3, 2012
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Where’s Grecs? At AppSecDC Of Course.

As we announced last month AppSecDC is upon us and I’m excited to be heading down into the city soon! For those interested I’m honored to be presenting twice at this event … one on Wednesday at 2:30 and another on Thursday at 4:30. I’ve included the title and abstracts below. I always enjoy...
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