.:Computer Defense:.

Hey Everyone,

So Blackhat/Defcon is behind us... Instead of blogging about the talks, I've taken a different approach and I've been doing some non-technical blogging. In the end it will be a 5-part series, but the first three are already up.

They are:

1. Being a Research Engineer at a Blackhat Booth
2. Competitors Can Be Civil
3. Why DEFCON Sucks

The last two will most likely appear early next week.

Also, now that Blackhat/ DEFCON are over... What's next? As far as I know the next Con I'll be attending is SecTor. Last year was the first SecTor and I had the opportunity to attend. SecTor will actually make it's way into my upcoming blog series (from above) on the VERT Blog. That being said, I wanted to remind people that it's coming up, after all... it's held in Toronto and I live in Toronto, so the more people that attend, the more people I get to meet.

For anyone who didn't get a chance to visit SecTor last year and is curious about the quality / style of the talks, I tried to write-up everything that I saw.

• Overview
• Growing the Security "Profession"
• TCP/IP Perversion
• Zen and the Art of Cybersecurity
• Web Application Works - The Future of Browser Insecurity
• Exploit-Me Series
• Defending Layer 8
• Black Ops 2007: DNS Rebinding Attacks
• Hacking Hollywood
• Modern Trends in Network Fingerprinting.

Of course, these are biased because they're all my opinion, but I do recommend the Con for anyone that can make it up this way. Let me know if you'll be coming up and we'll make arrangements to get together for a beer.