Archive for February, 2008

OWASP Hartford tomorrow

Tomorrow, February 28th, is the first ever meeting for the brand new Hartford Owasp chapter. James McGovern, the chapter lead has been putting some effort into starting it off with a bang, so I hope everyone in the NY/CT/Mass area can make it. Agenda for the night is as follows:

Opening Remarks: 5:30 - 6:00 PM […]

ShmooCon 2008 — Path X: Explosive Security Testing Tools with XPath

On Sunday, we had some technical difficulties getting my laptop to work with the projector. In a scramble to get things up and running, I forgot to send the backup screenshots I had taken just in case. Ughh.. first conference talk I give, and everything that could have gone wrong, did. LOL. It was good […]

Back from D.C. — ShmooCon 2008 recap

We’re back from a great weekend in Washington, D.C. at ShmooCon 08′. Dre and I arrived Thursday night just in time for the bar to close and with having no hotel room reserved, we were in for a long night. Interestingly enough though, at around 5am, we found that we were able to modify the […]

Path X — Explosive Security Testing

We have received details from ShmooCon with the scheduled day and time of our talk. We have been scheduled for the last talk on Sunday at 12pm noon (before the room split) on the “Build It” track. I’m not sure whether that’s a good thing or bad thing, but we’ll see. We’re excited about the […]

Hardware VM security: past and present

Marcin and I were talking a bit about mainframe security today. I recalled how fantastic mainframes were while he had his hands in the trenches. Yes, I know that IBM renamed MVS to z/OS (as well as other things) years ago. However, the concepts remain the same: TSO, ISPF, and JCL are […]