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The article starts explaining why and how Russia hosts probably the most capacious source of malicious programs worldwide. It’s common knowledge that most of the contemporary compu…

This talk is “Not-So-Limited Warranty: Target Attacks on Warranties for Fun and Profit.” This talk is for people who like unconventional forms of social engineering, who want to le…

Hi, my name is Dru Streicher, and I am going to talk about encryption today. A little bit about me, I am a Systems Administrator for Hurricane Labs, we’re Cleveland based network s…

Now we are going to talk about asymmetrical encryption. We were talking about symmetrical encryption, where we’re basically just using a password to protect a file. And that’s real…

Hi there! My name is Brian Chess. I’m Chief Scientist at Fortify Software. We were acquired by HP at the end of last year, and we’re excited to join the HP family. Today I’m talkin…

Data Center Security – an Incoherent Mess When I started thinking about a data center I had to try and find some lines to slice it along to try and make sense to the world. Here’s …

A Proposal We’re done with the complaining. Now I’m going to spend a couple of minutes trying to talk about what you might be able to do about this, and what I think is going to ha…

Hi, my name is Caroline Wong. And today I’m going to be talking about a beginner’s guide to security metrics. I currently manage the security program at Zynga Inc., and I was forme…

Getting started with measuring security So, now that we’ve talked about why you would do security metrics in the first place, I’m going to go into a little bit of how you would get…

Implementing process improvements Another area to focus on for security metrics would be to sort of look around and figure out what’s broken and what needs fixing. A few areas that…