Slides for this week’s lectures in CSE 4243/6243
While Dr. Vaughn was traveling this week, I lectured the CSE 4243/6243 Information and Computing Security class on Wednesday, and today (or will, in about 30 minutes). These two lectures are a mile-high overview of terminology and examples surrounding vulnerabilities, exploits, malware, and denial of service attacks. Chapter 3 of Charles P. Pfleeger’s Security in [...]
Black Hat USA 2008 and Defcon 16 Audio Available
A while back, I posted about darkoz having to find a new home for the hacker media archive. Well, it appears that he has found a replacement. The previous mirror on Easynews now points to the new location:
http://avondale.good.net/dl/bd/
…and what’s more: There are MP3’s available of the recent Black Hat USA 2008 and Defcon 16 conferences [...]
Lecturing on Security Principles tommorow
Tommorow, from 11:00AM to 12:15PM CDT, I will be lecturing the CSE 4233 – Software Architecture and Design class here at Mississippi State University’s computer science department, where I’m working on my Ph.D. dissertation and security research. The lecture is on the basic security principles presented in the classic paper, “The Protection of Information in [...]
Defcon 15 Videos Online
While looking for something else, I noticed that many of the talks from Defcon 15 were uploaded to Google Video yesterday. I have really been looking forward to seeing some of these talks, and wasn’t expecting them to be online so soon, so it’s a very pleasant surprise :) . Here’s a link [...]
Blackhat Conference Materials are Back
…at least until folks go crazy with wget again ;) . The rapidshare link is up here, if you need whole thing, but I’d like to be able to provide them on my site for folks to browse around, get something specific, or in cases where something like rapidshare might be blocked.
http://mcgrewsecurity.com/bh2007/
If anyone has [...]
BlackHat 2007 Slides, Papers, Extras
In the normal course of causing trouble on IRC today, a friend pasted a URL to what appears to be the contents of the BlackHat USA 2007 conference materials CD. I figured my dear readers would be interested in having some reading material for the weekend, but I have no idea who owns the [...]
Little Things: Last Checks Before Locking Your Screen
(I haven’t posted in a while, since I meant to do a post about various apps a security professional might want on their Windows Mobile/Pocket PC phone. Aside from other engagements, I’ve just been having too much fun playing with the different programs available for my phone to actually write anything down. It’s [...]
SANS Starkville! Stay Sharp: IP Packet Analysis
I’m really excited to announce that I will be teaching the SANS Stay Sharp: IP Packet Analysis training course here on the Mississippi State Campus, in cooperation with the Center for Computer Security Research. This will take place on Thursday, May 10th, from 6 to 9 PM. You can find out more information [...]
Introduction to Web Security
After wrangling a bit with a good way to add it to the “services” section, I have added a training section to the site as a top-level section, and should be accessible from the menu at the top of each page. This will wind up being where you can get information on the training [...]