Garrett Gee

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 tends to jump networks, [...]

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 analyze Flash applications [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here we go again… today Steve Jobs got on stage and talked about four new things apple users must have. Ars Technica, Engadget, and Tom’s Guide all provided good live keynote coverage, so I wont go into everything Steve talked about.

The new great product that he unveiled was the manila envelope … erm. MacBook Air! [...]

Kurt did it again this year. He was able to crack the MD5 codes on the Macworld Expo registration page to get a platinum pass for free!

Last year when he discovered the flaw, he notified IDG about it, and they fixed the issue at that time. We figured it would be completely fixed this year, [...]