Here are today's Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web.
- Lee offers some thoughts on mentors.
Career Advice Tuesday = "How Did You Find Your Mentor" : Information Security Leaders
Tags: ( mentors career ) - If you are in the Cleveland, Ohio area, you should check out this hacking contest taking place on September 22nd. It is open to the public and free, you just need to register. Looks like a lot of fun.
Hurricane Labs Hack Challenge
Tags: ( challenge ) - From the site: "The Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law published its first issue in the 1st quarter of 2006 and is now calling for papers in, or related to, the following areas for Volume 5 (2010).." The list of target areas is pretty big. Check it out.
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law Call for Papers
Tags: ( cfp ) - From the site:ForensicArtifacts.com was built to become a repository for useful information forensic examiners may need to reference during the course of their analysis. Requests for artifacts of system files, programs, and malware are very common to see on computer forensic mailing lists and forums. This site strives to take the place of those requests and become a one-stop shop when it comes to forensic artifacts.
Artifacts | Forensic Artifacts
Tags: ( forensics ) - LockCon 2010 in happening for those of you interested in physical locks and such.
LockCon 2010 "the winner takes it all" << Blackbag, Barry's weblog
Tags: ( lockpicking ) - The Security Shoggoth points out that you may only get one chance to grab that malware sample you want to explore.
The Security Shoggoth: You never get a second chance...
Tags: ( malware ) - Richard is giving a talk at VizSec 2010 next month on Security Visualization and its usefulness in production. To support his talk, he is looking for some real world examples of visualization's use. Help him out.
TaoSecurity: Do You Use Visualization in Production?
Tags: ( visualization ) - Leave it to Shrdlu to come up with the Lopsided Pyramid of Pain[tm].
Span of Control
Tags: ( general )
That's it for today. Have fun!
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