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Jan 12 2008

CES Highlights

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This year I am trying something different. I want to experiment whether I can learn everything I wanted to by relying on others and the coverage they provide. And being the information addict that I am, I read over 500 posts related to this years’ CES. Here are my notes.

On Sunday, Bill Gates held his […]

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Jan 11 2008

iSEC Open Security Forum

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Yesterday was iSEC’s Open Security Forum. It is an informal and open venue to present and discuss security related research and tools. The last meeting was in October of 2007, and I believe they are aiming for quarterly meetings. There were four presentations, and here are my notes from them.
Rich Cannings - Cross Site […]

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Dec 30 2007

My Year-End Report Card: B-

As the year end, I like to reflect on what I accomplished this year. 2007 was a great year for me, and I would like to give a big thanks to all that supported me in my ventures.
Here are some of my highlights of the year:

Covered 21 events - Many of them as press. […]

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Dec 29 2007

Comcast Year-End Report Card: D

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Here are some points on why Comcast is doing so poorly these days.

Due to an undefined bandwidth cap, many users have been banned for a year.
Use of throttling on P2P traffic.
Increased monthly costs, yet no increase in bandwidth speeds.
Tech support is rude and not helpful.
They banned me without proper notice! I […]

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Dec 14 2007

OWASP Stanford Meeting

Yesterday was the first meeting under the newly founded “OWASP Bay Area” chapter, which combines the San Francisco, San Jose, and East Bay chapters into one big one! The meeting was held at the beautiful Stanford Alumni Association Center.

Niels Provos presented on how Google detects malware from their web crawlers, and the ties […]

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Nov 18 2007

OWASP & WASC AppSec 2007

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Over the last week I was at eBay in San Jose California for the OWASP and WASC AppSec conference. The event was loads of fun, and over 200 people attended the two day event.
There were many good talks, but the winner had to be from Samy (of the MySpace Samy worm). It was not a […]

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