Archive for January, 2008

Jan 28 2008

Bin Toolkit: What’s New

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So it’s been a while since I’ve blogged about the bin toolkit. I’ve been trying to compile a list of URLs for all the applications I have in the toolkit, so others can be aware of what is in the system. While that list isn’t complete yet, you can view what I do have here. [...]

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Jan 27 2008

OLPC Steals the Show?

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At the ‘Technology in Wartime‘ conference yesterday, what do you think the biggest attention grabber was? It wasn’t Bruce Schneier‘s keynote speech, it was the OLPC! Just like the OLPC spotting at Macworld, everyone was gathering around the device and asking questions.

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Jan 27 2008

Technology in Wartime Conference

Yesterday was the ‘Technology in Wartime‘ conference, held at the Stanford Law School. Some of the topics were on autonomous robots, human rights, and cyberterrorism. Bruce Schneier gave the keynote on Dual-Use Technologies. Here are my notes from his keynote: Estonia was the first cyberwar. Lots of technology is dual use. In 24hrs, a worm [...]

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Jan 24 2008

OWASP-SF Meeting

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Tonight was another good OWASP Bay Area meeting. Over 50 people attended the meeting, and I hope these numbers continue to rise. The first talk was on Adobe Flash security. Here are my notes: Cross-site flashing takes advantage of the html flash parameter allowscriptaccess=always Stefano Di Paola released SWFIntruder a few months ago to help [...]

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Jan 22 2008

2007 Crunchies Award Ceremony

Last Friday was the 2007 Crunchies award ceremony at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. This was my first time attending the award ceremony, and I had a great time. The Crunchies is an annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. It [...]

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Jan 21 2008

The New Face of Cybercrime Movie Premiere

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A few days ago was the movie premiere of Fortify’s “The New Face of Cybercrime“. It is a twenty minute documentary on the state of cyber security. There was a ton of topics covered in twenty minutes, and I felt that because they covered so much, nothing was really explained. There was no technical information, [...]

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