Static in the Ether

As previously mentioned, I’ll be attending t the 8th Annual ISSA Conference Monday, 6 to Wednesday, 8 July 2009, along with some of my postgraduate students While a relatively small, conference, this year’s programme has a nice blend of topics being covered, and in many ways has refocused on being a more Academic and research [...]

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The Second call for papers ISSA2009, Information Security for South Africa, 6 – 8 July 2009 has been released. http://www.infosecsa.co.za Due dates: Abstract submission: 23 March 2009 (1 page) Notification of abstract acceptance: 31 March 2009 Full papers submission for review: 18 April 2009 Notification of acceptance: 26 May 2009 Submission of final camera-ready papers: [...]

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While trawling through references, and chasing down files as part of my final PhD push, I came across a  resource compiled by Guofei Gu at Texas A&M. He has provided a Computer Security Conference Ranking and Statistic page. While by his own admission it is somewhat subjective, he makes use of some interesting metrics. If you ahve novel [...]

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Michael Boman has made available the slidepack for Blackhat 2008. There are many blackhats as such but THE Blackhat is Blackhat USA held in Vegas in early in August each year. While the official audio and video will be another couple of months off, the slides should keep people interested. BH Europe also has material [...]

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With the 16th incarnation of Defcon having come and gone last week, a number of people have put together a nice list of the various tools released. The ZDnet’s Rob Fuller has done all the hard work of tracking down the various tools and their websites in his article -  entitled “ DEFCON 16: List [...]

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The 24th IFIP International Information Security Conference, has just released its call for papers for the 2009 edidtion to be held in Cyprus May 18-20 next year. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published by  Springer. Accepted papers must follow Springer’s guidelines for the IFIP Series, available at  www.springer.com/series/6102 Important dates Submission [...]

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