Well my news office is getting finished this Saturday and I am ramping up to get rolling on all the things that I have let slip since I have been in this transition.

I know this update is shaking some dust in some of your RSS readers.

It looks like we arent’ the only ones doing meetups. Only difference is they are sponsored by Microsoft and other deep pockets.

Security Bloggers Meet-up 2008: Helping you sift through security bull one tag at a time

Jennifer Leggio, Event Organizer

Social networking has progressed far beyond the basic blogosphere – especially in network security. With more than 100 blogs in the Security Bloggers Network, a good bevy of these bloggers are also expanding and communicating with their readership via micro-blogging on Twitter, live conferencing on ooVoo, video blogging on Seesmic, and of course, podcasting and video streaming. With all of these new tools – not to mention the ever-growing hotbed of network security issues to discuss – we thought a party at RSA Conference would be a great place to invite all of these bloggers to come together and share ideas and issues.

The Security Bloggers Meet-Up, however, is more than a social event for bloggers. Last year’s event at RSA was a huge success but aside from some live video feed, courtesy of PodTech, the event itself was very exclusive. While the party itself is still invitation-only for security bloggers and podcasters, we’ve opened it up a bit more through social networking to help the security community at large share in some of the festivities.

In addition to live video streaming similar to last year’s, there will be an ongoing live podcast (both courtesy of Network Security Podcast. There will also be a live Twitter feed from the event that will include quick 140-character interview responses from party attendees. If you’re on Twitter, follow @RSABloggers2008 for up-to-the-minute details before, during and after the event. If you’re not yet on Twitter sign up! You will also find a great list of security bloggers to follow.

Again, while the event itself is limited to security bloggers and podcasters, their readers and listeners can tune in from 6-8 p.m. PT on Wednesday, April 9, 2008, for a live experience. Subscribe to the RSS feed above for updates on this blog, details about the live podcasting, video streaming and Twitter feeding before, during and after the conference.

If you want to attend and have not yet received an invitation (or want to be listed on our blog roll), please email your name and blog or podcast URL to Jennifer Leggio.

Notacon 5 is a creativity, community and technology conference in Cleveland Ohio (it rocks)

There is no better place for a podcaster meetup than the WGET/notacon radio desk. We will be broadcasting 24/7 mostly live content, come give us some banter and meet each other.

http://notacon.org

http://www.notaconradio.org/

Now that ShmooCon is over with, and the fact that we are gluttons for punishment, it’s time for DEFCON

It has begun…
DEFCON is back at the Riviera Hotel, August 8-10, taking over the whole place, no drunk frat meetings or police chiefs conferences to share with!

The wheels are turning on the 16th installment of your favorite hacking conference. Contest and Event threads are up and running in the forums, and now is the time to start suggesting new ideas, or to get involved with an existing event.

Your favorite official contests will be back, including Capture the Flag, the Mystery Box Challenge, DEFCON Bots, and the Lockpicking Contest as well as the unofficial Toxic BBQ, Øwn the Box, and the Phreaking Challenge. See the current state of the official and unofficial contests and get involved at the DEFCON Forums.

It’s also time to gather up that research because…
Call for Papers Opens March 1st!
That’s right! It’s almost time again to submit your hacktastic discoveries to be considered as a DEFCON talk! New and interesting research is always welcomed in the realm of security, hardware hacking, social engineering, lockpicking, and anything else you can modify, bypass or reverse engineer. Out of the box thinking is what we’re after… Stay tuned for details.

ALL DONE

Who:

Hosts: Rob Fuller (Myself) Darren Kitchen (Hak.5) Wess Tobler (Hak.5) Larry Pesce (Pauldotcom Security Weekly) amoung others…

Guests: Johnny Long, Rodney Thayer, Mark Loveless and others
When: 9 PM on Friday, February 15^th, 2008
Where: ShmooCon 2008 PRESS ROOM - Wardman Park Marriott Hotel, Washington D.C (We will also be streaming live on UStream (front page), Veoh and other mediums)

 I will post exact links to all of the streaming information an hour before the show.

I recently read on another blog of delays for the duration of the weekend. Check out Info Sec Blog link below.

http://www.infosecblog.org/2008/02/shmoocon-commuting.html

Plan accordingly.

The only thing that stands between you and a FREE EEE PC is 40 questions, 20 items and 5 boxes

I have posted the Podcaster’s Meetup on Upcoming.org You can post your attendance by heading over to http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/414823/

This will help me get an idea of how much social engineering I have to do on the vendors to appease the crowd by having enough alcohol and prizes.