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Bob McCardle has made me aware of these upcoming community SANS events to be held in Dublin this coming September. Bob and Owen are both very well regarded for their expertise and I highly recommend attending any, or both, of these courses. Bob also kindly offered a discount code for those of you wishing to attend. [...]
Within the information security community one of the most debated topics is that of security certifications. I previously blogged about certifications and gave my own views. The mailing list of the Irish OWASP Chapter also had a recent discussion centred around the topic. Many asked the question what value is a certification and which ones should I get? [...]
A Community SANS event in Dublin is scheduled for the 7th to the 15th of September at the Ballsbridge Court Hotel. The event will have the following courses; SEC504: – Hacker Techniques, Exploits & Incident Handling and will be tutored by Robert McArdle AUD521: – Meeting the Minimum: PCI/DSS 1.2: Becoming and Staying Compliant and will [...]
Earlier today the List of the Top 25 Most Dangerouse Programming Errors was released. The list was compiled by a number of different organisations and coordinated by the SANS Institute. Criminals are now moving from attacking the infrastructure layer and moving to finding ways into systems by means of bugs in the applications sitting on [...]
SANS are running a WhatWorks in Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking Summit on September 17th 2008 at the Le Meridien Piccadilly in London. The summit is a one day indepth look at the latest techniques and best practises you should employ to run penetration tests against your networks. So whether you are responsible for securing [...]