AHA! 0x0001

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 […]

ToorCon 8 Speaker Lineup Changes

Apparently, some time a couple weeks ago, the ToorCon speaker schedule was updated. I’m now no longer up against Chris Eagle, but am now up against spoonm speaking about reversing with Ruby. I don’t know if this change will help or hurt my talk’s attendance… Both of them are excellent speakers with excellent topics, and […]

ToorCon 8

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.

New Employer: TippingPoint

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 […]

Does backwards compatibility stifle innovation and progress?

Upon beginning my new job, I’ve been thrown head-first into the world of Internet Telephony security, a sector that I’ve not really paid much attention to, much less followed. I’m currently in the process of getting acquainted with all of the various protocols and technologies involved, and in doing so I’ve signed up to the […]

New Employer: Sipera Systems

Last week, shortly after returning from the BlackHat / DefCon conferences in Vegas, I resigned my current position with Citadel Security Software to take a Vulnerability Research position with a start-up in the Internet Telephony industry called Sipera Systems. At Sipera I’ll be doing much more actual research than I was doing for Citadel, as […]