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Louisville Metro InfoSec Conference Discount Code

Use the code“geek seat” to get $20 off registration for the Louisville Metro InfoSec Conference.
The conference lineup features some great members of the Security community such as John Strand, Paul Asadoorian, Lee Kushner, Scott Moulton, Adrian “IronGeek” Crenshaw.
Check out Securabit Episode 38 where we talk to Conference Chair, Brian Blankenship and tune in live Wednesday, [...]

Securabit Live Wednesday with Paul Asadoorian from Pauldotcom

Securabit will be recording live with special guest Paul Asadoorian from Pauldotcom Security Weekly and Tenable Network Security on Wednesday, September 16th.  Paul will be discussing Nessus and some of the new features/updates contained within Nessus 4.0.2 which launched today.  The stream should be live around 7:30 pm EDT and the show will start recording [...]

Social Engineering Framework and Metasploit Unleashed

Two great projects are getting ready to launch, keep in eye out for them over the next week:
The Official Social Engineering Framework is set to launch on Wednesday, September 16th. The goal is to gather some of the community to produce the web’s first and only true social engineering framework.  This framework is being developed [...]

Penetration Testing Training on the Cheap

I have been looking into finding a decent Penetration Testing training.  There are a lot of cheap (under $550), self-paced training out there.  I have accumulated the list below (most of which are on sale this month).  If you have taken any of these, drop a comment and let us know how they turned out.
Penetration [...]

Upcoming Cons and Webcasts

As we mentioned on Episode 39, there are lots of great cons coming up.  Here is all the links you need to find out more information:
Pittsburgh Information Security Users Group (PittSUG) Capture the Flag Event – September 17, 2009
BrucCON 2009 – September 18-19, 2009 – Speakers: Chris Gates, Chris Nickerson, Jayson Street, and many more!
Louisville [...]

Palin Yahoo Email Hacked

Numerous reports have been flying around the intertubes that Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo email was hacked and items from her mailbox were posted on the internet.  Wikileaks

Google Chrome

Google Chrome has generated a lot of press in the day since it was released on Tuesday.  It gained over a 1% market share in under 24 hours.  Some of

Interesting Security News – 08/29/08

Interesting security news for 08/29/08:

White House Imposes New Security Mandate for Federal Agencies (Washington Post) – All government agencies will be required to implement DNSSEC by January 2009.

Apple to fix hole

Red Hat Linux servers compromised

As announced on a Fedora mailing list, some Fedora servers were illegally accessed and “a small number of OpenSSH packages” were singed by the intruder. The servers were taken offline quickly after