2012 Washington D.C. Tech-Security Conference

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This year, the Washington D.C. Tech-Security Conference will bring together private industry, government decision makers and technical enthusiasts in the fields of Information & Network Security. This unique conference format will provide several interactive high intensity sessions as well as tremendous networking opportunities.

Register for Hacker Halted and get a FREE iPad3

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Register for Hacker Halted and get a FREE iPad3

HOPE Number 9 will be taking place on July 13 to 15, 2012 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City

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HOPE Number Nine will be taking place on July 13, 14, and 15, 2012 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. H.O.P.E. stands for Hackers On Planet Earth, one of the most creative and diverse hacker events in the world. It's been happening since 1994. Keynotes include William Binney and The Yes Men.

First round of speakers selected for DerbyCon 2.0!

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The first round of speakers have been selected for DerbyCon 2.0. For those that have submitted, we are only up to submissions sent up to May 23rd. If you did not receive an email, note that there are still several that are on the tentative list to being accepted. We will be going through the rest of the call for paper submissions within the next two weeks. Call for papers are still open! Submit yours!

SummerCon 2012 Wrap Up

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This past weekend in downtown Brooklyn New York, a few miles away from the new Nets stadium was SummerCon 2012. SummerCon has the title of being the longest-running American hacker conference where information security professional gets to mingle with hackers, security researchers, law enforcement officials and students thanks to Facebook.

SummerCon 2012 Day 1 – Friday, June 8

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SummerCon 2012 a hacker’s conference being conducted in beautiful downtown Brooklyn started today June 8th. Doors opened at noon, with opening remarks from organizer redpantz and Mark Trumpbour.

SummerCon Academic Rate FREE – Sponsored by Facebook

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SummerCon organizer stated, we were poor students once too. Thanks to Facebook, we can offer our academic rate tickets, normally $30 each, for FREE

SC eSymposium: Privacy & security

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Those engaging in cyberespionage to steal various classified and/or proprietary documents from U.S. agencies and other organizations are riding high. Foreign spies, including U.S. allies, are increasingly launching digital assaults against the nation to steal sensitive economic secrets, according to a recent report by the U.S. Office of National Counterintelligence Executive (UNSEX). The theft of this critical information shows that attackers - state-sponsored or not - are enlisting whatever weaknesses in systems they can to thieve corporate and government data, often going unnoticed for months. Experts share background on the types of attacks to watch out for and what to do to thwart them.

SecurityOrb.com Interviews Counter Terror Expo US Representives

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The Counter Terror Expo US is coming to Washington, DC on May 16 and 17 to the Washington Convention Center. I had the esteemed opportunity to interview Wayne Crawford, Vice President of North America, Clarion Events for Counter Terror Expo US and Amb. David J. Smith, Senior Fellow & Cyber Center Director at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies during my weekly BlogTalkRadio show. Mr. Crawford provided a wealth of information about the upcoming event while Amb. Smith gave some insight about the topic he will be discussing at the Expo.

Splunk Live! 2012 in Washington, DC

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Why do over 3,700 companies, including more than half of the Fortune 100, use Splunk to gain new levels of visibility and insight from their machine data? It's because Splunk is the fastest, easiest way to put your machine data to work.