I am continually impressed by both the quantity and quality of speakers we have at our Austin Hackers Anonymous (AHA!) meetings every month. This last meeting was our 7th technical meeting and we had no less than 10 individual speakers with anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes each, each with something unique and interesting to […]
During the first 3 hour leg of my trip, I finished the slides for my talk. During the second, 8 hour leg of my trip, I managed to sleep for about 5 of them. I arrived at 7 am local time, took an hour to get through customs and get my baggage, another hour to […]
Last wednesday we had our second AHA! technical meeting at the Austin Public Library. For anyone that didn’t know, the various branches of the APL have meeting and conference rooms available for use by the public if you can prove a non-profit status. So far I’m really happy with the format of the meetings being […]
I’ve been accepted to speak at ToorCon 8 later this month. My presentation is entitled “VoIP Attacks!” and will briefly cover some VoIP basics, various attacks against VoIP systems that are currently relevant, and then discuss mitigation techniques against those attacks and why many of the mitigation techniques have problems.
Today I’ve begun working for a new employer, TippingPoint, a division of 3Com. Essentially TippingPoint is a recent acquisition of 3Com’s and has become 3Com’s Security Research group. While working for TippingPoint, I’ll be doing a number of different things, primarily working with the TippingPoint Security Research (TSR) team who do product vulnerability assessment and […]