Archive for November 2008

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Movember – Sponser someone – anyone with a mo!

November 6, 2008

Movember is here again. If you have a desire to grow facial hair and then turn it in to a mo during the month of November, why not do if for a worthy charity. The folks over at http://www.movember.com/ have got this going in full flow. Next blokes night out, instead of buying one round [...]

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Mentoring the SANS Incident Handling/Hacking course in Sydney January 2009

November 2, 2008

I’ve successfully applied to be a mentor for the SANS Security 504: SANS Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling course. It’ll be running in Chatswood, Sydney on the starting on Wednesday 21st of January 2009, every Wednesday evening from 6:30pm to 8:30pm for ten weeks.There’s plenty of parking and it’s easy to get to via [...]

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SANS Sydney 2008 Wrap up

November 1, 2008

Another SANS conference wraps up for the year. I had the opportunity to pick the brains of a number of my fellow students, the organisers (Shearwater), the instructors and even the volunteer minions The normal mixed bunch of students, from different environments, back grounds and skills populated the five classes during the week. The instructors [...]

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Perimeter Protection In-Depth (502) course thoughts

November 1, 2008

Six solid days of living and breathing security training, SANS style has drawn to a close. As I’ve already mentioned, I was in the Perimeter Protection In-Depth (502) class with Chris Brenton at the helm. It was a small class of 12 people, which I was surprised at, but hey, took advantage of more one [...]