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Jayson E. Street – Dispelling the myths and discussing the facts of Global Cyber-Warfare – BruCon 2009

This is the first of my 3 videos recorded at BruCon 2009.
This is the excellent presentation from Jayson E. Street on Dispelling the myths and discussing the facts of Global Cyber-Warefare.

Abstract: There is a war being raged right now. It is being fought in your living room, in your dorm room even in your board room. The weapons are your network and computers and even though it is bytes not bullets whizzing by that does not make the casualties less real. We will follow the time line of Informational Warfare and its impact today. We will go deeper past the media hype and common misconceptions to the true facts of whats happening on the Internet landscape. You will learn how the war is fought and who is fighting and who is waiting on the sidelines for the dust to settle before they attack.

Jayson has an excellent book coming out called “Dissecting the Hack: The Forbidden Network”

Also to learn more about Jayson and where he is talking check out his website.

Jayson E. Street – Dispelling the myths and discussing the facts of Global Cyber-Warfare – BruCon 2009 from Dale Pearson on Vimeo.

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Metasploit Unleashed from Offensive Security now available online for free

METASPLOIT UNLEASHED – MASTERING THE FRAMEWORK

This free information security training is brought to you in a community effort to promote awareness and raise funds for underprivileged children in East Africa. Through a heart-warming effort by several security professionals, we are proud to present the most complete and in-depth open course about the Metasploit Framework.

This is the free online version of the course. If you enjoy it and find it useful, we ask that you make a donation to the HFC (Hackers For Charity), $4.00 will feed a child for a month, so any contribution is welcome. We hope you enjoy this course as much as we enjoyed making it.

The “full” version of this course includes a PDF guide (it has the same material as the wiki) and a set of flash videos which walk you though the modules. You may purchase these materials from the Offensive Security Training page. All proceeds from this course go to HFC.

BruCon 2009, gone but certainly not forgotten

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Well I am back from BruCon, and what can I say it was excellent. Benny and Co did a fantastic job of setting up and running the Conference, and I am sure an excellent time was had by all. Great to see faces old and new, listen to some great speakers, attend some great workshops and spend some excellent time with cool people drinking excellent beer 🙂

If your not sure what I am on about check out http://brucon.org for more information.

I have recorded a couple of videos that I will be posting over coming few weeks (due to Vimeo restrictions), so check back to the blog for presentations from Jayson Street, Chris Gates and Chris Nickerson.

If you want some detailed posts on some of the presentations as they went on check out Chris Riley’s Blog (he has a time machine, so he could blog about them before the speaker even knew what they were saying).

Also check out Help Net Security for some official press material of the event.

So to all those I met and enjoyed the company of (you know who you are) thanks for a great one and see you soon.

Couple of pics, even some Kiosk hacking and Craig Balding talking about Cloud Security 🙂

Social-Engineer.org goes live

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What are the goals of social-engineer.org?

Primarily our goal is to bring awareness to the threats out there.Â The threats in phishing, cons, identity theftâ€¦ the malicious parts of social engineering that are robbing from so many of us.

We also want a community where people from all walks of life that use aspects of social engineering can come and Â share their experiences.Â This is what we tried to create at www.social-engineer.org.Â Our key feature being the webs only Social Engineering Framework.Â A outline of all the aspects of social engineering and how they relate to security, to life, to our jobs and hobbies.Â We have collected news reports, stories and experiences from the web as well as research from industry experts and compiled it all to make this an amazing tool for all to use.

The Framework, as well as the site, will be a living, breathing entityâ€¦. it will continue to grow as time passes.Â More in depth research, more how-tos and videos, more tools â€“ all will continue to enhance the site.

Our Vision

Our Â vision is to continue to add to the framework and research new and exciting vectors in this field. To work together with industry experts in expanding this technology.Â To continue working together to create a truly unique and special community of people interested in social engineering.

Check out EP #34 of Exotic Liability to hear from the creators.

RSA Conference – Security Bloggers Meet up 2009 – London

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I thought it was about time I put a post up about the RSA Europe Conference Security Bloggers Meet-up 2009 in London.
Kevin Riggins, Benny Ketelslegers and myself (Dale Pearson) are responsible for setting this up, getting sponsors, location and all the other bits and bobs. So if your in the InfoSec community and your a bloggger, podcasters, or reporter this is the meet-up for you.

We are keeping all the official details upto date on the RSA Conference Blog so keep an eye there for more information and if your interested in attending as spaces are limited. Also if your interested in sponsoring the event or providing some give aways then please get in contact “bloggermeetup[at]securityactive.co.uk”.

Here’s the high level detail so far:

Time: 20:00 (8:00 PM) GST
Date: Tuesday October 20th, 2009
Place: Somewhere in London

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