This past spring Prof. Xiuwen Liu and W. Owen Redwood taught the first of their Offensive Security classes at Florida State University. Courses like this are nothing new but the difference here is that they put the entire thing online…
Whether you are for or against certifications, especially the CISSP, you sure can’t beat this bargain tweeted by @NimbleSec the other day. Starting this week Charles Sturt University is offering a free online 6 week course that meets every Wednesday.…
Just thought we’d try something like this for those seeking new job opportunities and recruiters looking to hire in our area. This idea basically works just like the Reddit netsec quarterly comment thread but focuses on NoVA and other locales…
Just a follow-up to the fairly new NSA National Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cyber Operations program and the initially-tapped schools posts a while ago… Along with Northeastern University, the Naval Postgraduate School, and Dakota State University, one of…
Travis “@w0rm53r” Fritz contacted us with this little nugget of information to pass around. Taken from today’s SANS NewsBites it discusses the Cyber Foundations/ CyberCenters program and their upcoming deadline for veterans and high school students to register for inexpensive…
We’ve heard of this OldApps.com many times before but a recent tweet from @taosecurity mentioning it put this resource over the top that we had to write it up for those in pen testing, exploit creation, … or just testing…
We came across an interesting article from InfoRiskToday.com, which states that the job growth in the information security field is now flat according to the most recent quarterly Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data. Hmmm…this contradicts many other articles we’ve recently highlighted on our…
Wow … for Brian Kreb’s next “How to Break Into Security” article he got some input from none other than Bruce Schneier. His advice falls into three main areas, including “Studying” traditional as well as non-traditional security areas, “Doing” security…
We came across another good career article over on InfoRiskToday.com the other day. It stresses that in order to better defend against today’s adversaries, network security pros can’t just focus on the network-related indicators (e.g., flow data). The only way…
A few weeks ago we came across a great little service started by @elizmmartin called the Mock Infosec Job Board. As noted in the description on their site, “This site is being provided as a service to new InfoSec individuals…