I recently ramped up my spam filters for my email client. Since I work in IT security, it’s pretty important that I don’t become the point of origin for any malware snaking its way through the organizations for which I work. “Inadvertently infected clients with the malicious software I was supposed to protect them against” […]
As many of you may know already The Ethical Hacker Club (TEHC) is moving. The training/etc has been kind enough to lend us their space but alas they are closing… well more accurately merging. They are merging with UMBC Training facilities (off of Columbia Gateway). The new space shall offer us a more formal area […]
This is written more for my students taking cmsy-262, but I am sure everyone can benefit. It’s a nice little synopsis of vpns and why we should use them. While the article speaks to a few free and paid options they fail to mention the ability to roll your own – if you are a […]
That was the subject line of a recent email that I received from the head instructor of Krav Maga Maryland; attached with it a clip of a man taking on a shotgun wielding attacker as seen on Yahoo news – http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-turns-tables-shotgun-wielding-attacker-141851442.html While this wasn’t the greatest gun disarm, I love how it shows the “victims” (and I use that […]
I know you may already be aware of this but if you are local to the MD/DC area and are currently in the process of trying to find a job the TechExpo Cyber Security Job Fair is tomorrow (April 30th, 2013) at the Sheraton Columbia Center. Unlike most tech expos that require clearances this one […]
In an efort to continously share free training/seminars I come accross, I wanted to share the following NIST framework: http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/cybersecurity-framework-workshop.cfm If you are in the MD/DC/VA area and can get away for a day I suggest you register.
I got news the other that my application to be grandfathered into EC-Council’s Certified Chief Information Security Officer certification (C|CISO). I guess 16+ years of infosec experience and 5+ yrs of management/leadership has paid off. As I posted before 2013 is going to be the year of the certifications. I understand that a certification doesn’t […]
More upcoming and almost free training: IT Audit for Internal Auditors – Hot Topics IIA Baltimore Chapter Friday, February 8, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (EST). 8 CPE The Conference Center at the Maritime Institute, Linthicum Heights, MD Register by February 6, 2013 Members $150, Non-members $175 Link: http://baltimoreiia020813-rss.eventbrite.com/# Ethics: It’s Not […]
The “Rabbott” sent me some free online webinars being offered by the SANs institute, so I though I would share: WEBCAST 1 SANS Asia-Pacific Series: You can panic now. Host Protection is (mostly) dead – An Incident Response and Forensics Analysis of an APT attack WHEN: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 Sydney 12 PM / Seoul […]
Just as quickly as the new Terms of Service, were introduced they are now being “reworded”. Instagram is set to correct their huge blunder. Sadly it wasn’t because they realized they did the wrong thing but rather the mass deletion of accounts that led them to “reword” their TOS. In case you missed the latest […]