February 2006 - Posts

Adelaide Security Interchange Event!

Well tonight we kicked off the Security Seminar at the Adelaide Oval. I suppose that if you are going to go to a cricket oval for the first time, this is the one you want to go to.  it's a very beautifil oval with loads of historybuilt right in. But Read More
posted Tuesday, 28 February 2006 6:08 AM by Rocky | 0 Comments
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Getting the Show on the Road!!

  Well Tomorrow we kick off the Security Seminar in Adelaide with our Security Interchange event http://www.microsoft.com/australia/eforum/TechNetInterchange.aspx at the Oval Function Centre.  It should be a great start to the event with Read More
posted Sunday, 26 February 2006 7:34 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments

Watch Breaking Into Las Vegas!

The Code Room has produced a new show called Breaking Into Las Vegas.  This episode shows a game of cat and mouse with hackers and defenders with the stakes being the High Roller accounts in the Plaza Hotel and Casino.  This is a really cool Read More
posted Sunday, 26 February 2006 7:25 PM by Rocky | 1 Comments
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Welcome to Tech Talk Blogs!

  Welcome to Tech Talk Blogs. As you can see this is a collected community of Australian bloggers and techie folks. Our aim here is to promote communication amongst the Tech Community so that we can share information, insights, and opinions on Read More
posted Friday, 24 February 2006 11:34 AM by Rocky | 0 Comments
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New Dev Security Training Modules

The Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft has published 6 introductory training modules on secure development from Keith Brown on the Channel 9 site.  They are complete with video on the tecniques and explanations of why you have to take these Read More
posted Thursday, 23 February 2006 9:43 AM by Rocky | 0 Comments
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Irresponsible Disclosure for a price.

  Recently eWeek ran an article (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1928389,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614) about iDefense offering a $10,000 reward for anyone that could find a worm hole in Microsoft products that would cause Microsoft to release Read More
posted Wednesday, 22 February 2006 6:53 PM by Rocky | 2 Comments
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Threat Modeling gets its own Blog!

The Microsoft ACE Team opened a new blog on Thursday Aussie time. It's all about Threat Modeling.  We welcome the Microsoft Threat Modeling & Analysis Blog to the Blogsphere! Since I'm a particular fan of Threat Modeling, and the ACE Team's Read More
posted Saturday, 18 February 2006 11:43 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments
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InfoCard gains Verisign Momentum

Todd Bishop of seattlepi.com and Ryan Naraine of eWeek.com among others, have reported on news from the RSA Conference about Verisign backing the Microsoft's InfoCard project. This backing comes in the form of a plan people use InfoCard to log Read More
posted Saturday, 18 February 2006 11:30 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments
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Security Summit Getting Close!

The Australian Microsoft Security Summit is kicking off in 10 days. I have to tell you aside from being excited to be a speaker, I'm really glad I get to see the presentations too.  We went over the developer track presentations today and you're Read More
posted Friday, 17 February 2006 12:34 AM by Rocky | 0 Comments
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Security Researcher's Apple PowerBook hacked.

 I was catching up on the news recently and came across this article on Security Focus. 'Apple's in the eye of the Flaw Finders' Essentially what happened was at ShmooCon a security 'researcher' discovered that someone had hacked into his PowerBook, Read More
posted Monday, 13 February 2006 11:07 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments
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Free Security Interchange Event

As many of you know the Microsoft Security Seminar is about to hit the road.  We start our tour on Feb 27th in Adelaide.  One of the cool features to this years seminar is the Security Interchange Event.  This is a free event held for the Read More
posted Monday, 13 February 2006 9:16 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments
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Welcome to Tech Talk Blogs

First off I'd like to welcome you to Tech Talk Blogs.  This new project is an endeavour to bring all the latest happenings in the security world to your fingertips.  This site is for IT Pros, and Developers alike so expect to find some good Read More
posted Monday, 13 February 2006 7:30 PM by Rocky | 3 Comments
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