Posted by Tom on December 15, 2008 – 10:53 am
Looks like the Notacon website has updated the speaker list and there looks to be some really good talks so far. Here is the list from the Notacon 6 website and blog post:
Time To Replicate The Real Threat: Client Side Penetration Testing
CG & g0ne
Interactivity with Arduinos, Transducing the Physical World
droops & Morgellon the Lowtek Mystic
Fun With The MSP430 MCU
Travis Goodspeed
Hacking Light – How we came to love Holga and Other Stories of photo hi jinx
Jeon & Treize
“Pilates” for Common Cubicle Injuries
Michele Martaus
Super Jason Scott Presentation 64
Jason Scott
Programming The Sega Genesis For Mad Profit and Crazy Mad Profit
SigFLUP
Hacking Cognition
Tottenkoph & Selkie
Intro to Go
Jason Viers
What is Notacon?
Notacon is one of the most unique conferences you will ever attend! Notacon 6 is April 16th – 19th 2009 held in Cleveland, Ohio. Notacon explores and showcases technologies, philosophy and creativity often overlooked at many “hacker cons”. Registration is open!
Posted by Tom on December 1, 2008 – 12:27 pm
Filed under Cleveland
Tagged as Cleveland, IT
There is a new group forming in Northeast Ohio for IT professionals focused on the younger generation and is an opportunity to network and learn from one another. The first meeting is at the Great Lakes Brewing Company on December 10th @ 6pm (downstairs in the beer cellar). Cost is $15 to help with appetizers but is open bar! Read: Great Lakes has Christmas Ale on tap!
If you plan on attending please RSVP to Devon Campbell (dcampbell2 [aT] mcpc.com).
This event should be a great way to network and meet others in the area! Hope to see some of you locals there!
Posted by Tom on November 14, 2008 – 5:29 pm
Filed under Malware
Tagged as Cleveland, Malware
Hey…I actually found a few minutes for a quick blog post! 
Just a quick post to check out the report that my friend and malware researcher Greg Feezel was mentioned in a report over at Hostexploit.com. He contributed data to this report. The report was on the McColo web hosting firm which is apparently responsible for sending 75% of spam world wide! If you didn’t know, McColo was taken offline a few days ago and there has been a massive decrease in spam across the Internet. If you want more information on McColo check out Brian Kreb’s article here. Brian is actually one of the guys that helped shut this firm down based on some of the reporting he did.
Goes to show you that we can do some good as security professionals if we all work together!
Posted by Tom on October 30, 2008 – 10:43 pm
Today at the Ohio Information Security Summit I released my Facebook Security & Privacy Guide. This guide gives you suggested “baseline” security settings that you can use when configuring your Facebook account. Obviously, you can adjust these settings based on your own level of risk but it should give you a good starting point.
How did this project get started?
I have been doing several months of research with my own Facebook account as well as gathering the input of other Facebook users to determine what the privacy and security settings would be without loosing the key features of using a social network website…the networking!
Please feel free to distribute this document to friends and family or use it for any security awareness campaigns. I will hopefully be keeping up with any updates to the document when Facebook changes things. I might be putting together a similar document together for MySpace but MySpace is a totally different animal altogether. We shall see!
You can download a pdf version of the guide here.
