DFRWS is an organization dedicated to furthering digital forensics research. They have annual conferences, workgroups, challenges and publish papers. This years conference will be in Montreal, from August 17th through the 19th, for more info check out the flyer or to register, check it out here. The DFRWS 2009 Challenge has been posted as well. It focuses on the development of tools and techniques for forensically analyzing the PS3 (aka Sony Playstation 3). The challenge requires you to analyze the file system of a Playstation, a physical memory dump, images, and network traces involving 2 PS3’s and a Playstation Portable (PSP). All in all, it sounds pretty interesting. To find…
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BarCampLA 7 on May 2nd
For more information check out the Google Group. And if you haven’t been to one of these ad hoc types of conferences yet, it’s a very interesting way to spend some time – informative, fun and interactive.
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MinneDemo
MinneDemo is going to be hosting tech demos and reviews of Minneapolis based IT companies in town on February 8th. I’ll be moving that day so won’t be able to make it but really wish I could, and if you are able to make it, you should definitely swing by and check it out!
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Hacking at Random 2009 Conference
Hacking at Random, a hacking conference held every four years near Vierhouten in the Netherlands is back at it. Muddy, dirty, euro-hippie-hackers will descend on an otherwise quiet town (likely camping out and getting dirtier as the 4 day HackCon goes on) and, well, hack random stuff. It’s one of those funny things, either it sounds like heaven (in which case I’m guessing you’ve been to burning man at least once and while there tried to figure out why everyone seems to be such a luddite) or it sounds like hell (which means you’re likely not reading this blog). If you are one of the former I might just see…
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On the Road: Fear and Loathing at MacWorld
I’ve only been attending MacWorld since a few years ago when I gave that talk on Mac OS X Server security. Before then I had no clue that there was this whole community of people out there that were going through the same issues that I was in regard to the more network and server side of things. I can’t help but think back to how much richer and more fulfilled all of this has made my career. This ecosystem has continued to grow and change, and through all of it, the last few years I am happy to have been able to contribute to it. To some extent the…
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MacDayLA
MacDayLA is a new (or semi-new) mini-conference being held once a month in Los Angeles. It is an extension of other conferences that have been run by Deborah Shadovitz, a long time Mac expert, author and evangelist in Southern California. Best of luck to her in helping to further the Mac community in the southland.
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318 and MacWorld
Beau and I will be giving a talk at MacWorld on Friday. It will be all about Sandbox, the Mandatory Access Control facility from Apple. So if you’re going to be around then you should definitely check it out. Also, Zack will be giving one on Thursday at 1. His will be on recovering from laptop theft. Both talks will be in the security track of the MacIT portion of MacWorld.
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Advanced Camp
Advanced Camp was the ACN and PSP training event held by Apple in Lake Tahoe this year. Advanced Camp was well organized and had what seemed to me to be the highest caliber of training that I’ve seen from Apple in one event thus far. The team who organized the event was probably the best put together to be able to deliver the training and even the worse of the events had plenty of great technical information. Additionally, the attendees were some of the friendliest, most professional Apple gurus I’ve had a chance to hang with in a long time. Congrats to everyone involved for holding such a well…
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MacWorld Talk Posted
Leopard represents a massive leap forward in security features included with Mac OS X. As the needs of users of OS X have matured so has the ability for systems administrators, developers and end users to secure their systems. One of new security features is Sandbox. Since it’s inception, Mac OS X has had permissions that can be applied to files allowing the ability to block access to specific applications. But Sandbox gives you the awesome new ability to apply permissions to what specific applications can have access to. In this session we will review what an application can access and how to harness Sandbox to restrict access to networking,…
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SCALE CFP
The Southern California Linux Expo Call For Papers is open for SCALE 2009: http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/s7x_cfp