A recent article by The Register almost makes you feel bad for social networking sites. In addition to their existing reputation for wasting time and ruining the grammatical aptitude of teenagers everywhere, social networking sites are now being accused of creating serious security threats for organizations in the form of spam, phishing, and malware...
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If you live in the Maryland area and can’t make the 2600 Group – Arlington meetups, we have good news for you: There’s also 2600 Group – Baltimore meetups. Taking place at the same time as the 2600 Group – Arlington meetups, the 2600 Group – Baltimore meetups are hosted at the Inner Harbor Barnes and Noble. To learn more...
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Got some free time this Friday? Then check out the 2600 Group – Arlington meetup at Pentagon City Mall. Conveniently located right next to the Pentagon City metro station, you can get your fill of security and Starbucks with this laid-back meetup of local professionals. If you’d like to learn more about the 2600 Group –...
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Just a quick reminder that the CharmSec infosec meetup event is tomorrow. For more information about CharmSec, see its description in our Infosec Meetups 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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Who needs coffee when you have the best of this week’s local security bloggers at your fingertips? The featured blog post by Richard Bejtlich is sure to give you a jolt that’s espresso-worthy as he bashes the ISC’s take on incident response verses incident handling, and our favorite v-blogger Marcus J. Carey will have...
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Tags: cyber security, dojosec, ethical-hacker, grapevine, incident response, infosec, internet-storm-center, isc, local-bloggers, maltego, marcus-j-carey, NoVA Bloggers, richard-bejtlich, security, security-bloggers, tao-security-blog
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If you’re looking for a security group where you don’t have to sign up or make any long-term commitments, CharmSec might be the group for you. Meeting once toward the end every month, CharmSec is a local group based out of Maryland that gets together for a couple of hours to talk about security, have...
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Last Thursday, Michael Sutton (@michaelawsutton) of Zscaler Labs gave a presentation entitled “Your Browser Wears No Clothes: Why Users With Fully Patched and Secured Web Browsers Remain Vulnerable in a Web 2.0 World” at the ISSA – NoVA Chapter meetup. Sutton—VP of Security Research at Zscaler—has a background in researching, publishing and presenting on various...
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Tags: dc, event, infosec, issa-nova, meetup, michael-sutton, naked-applications, naked-browser, nova, security, web-applications, your-browser-wears-no-clothes, zscaler-labs
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So, it’s that time of the week again—the time where we spotlight the best posts by local security bloggers. This week there were some especially thought-provoking posts mixed with some humorous v-blog posts that are a must-see. If you have any recommendations for local security bloggers that we should keep our eye on, leave...
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Tags: back-to-basics, community, cybersecurity-act-2009, embedded-devices, ham-security, infosec, marcus-j-carey, nova, sansfire, security, selling-security, thin-slicing
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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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Tags: comptia, data-breach, digital-security, firewalls, infosec, malware, nova, reports, research, sans, security, security-basics, security-breach, studies, syber-security, symatec, verizon
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Addressing the problem of companies not taking insider threats seriously, the “Many Enterprises Still Don’t Recognize Insider Threat, Studies Say” article on DarkReading made some much-needed points about intranets not being the secure entities that many companies believe them to be. While the article’s primary focus is on traditional insider threats—with employees knowingly or...
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Tags: cnet, companies, cyber security, darkreading, infosec, insider-threats, intranet, malware, News, non-technical-users, nova, security, twitter, twitter-attacks, twitter-worm
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