On Friday October 9th at 12:00 PM I will be speaking at the Utah Open Source Conference on how to put together a kit of security tools using open source software. I discuss a fictional company that we work at and some of the things that we can put in place to help secure the [...]
Tags: open source, security tools, utos 2009, utos presentation
Earlier this month I decided to take the scripts for username generation and roll them into an open source project. There were a couple of reasons for doing so. First, I needed source control hosting and SourceForge provides that for free as long as you release the project to the public. Second, I want to [...]
Tags: open source, penetration testing, web app security
Last month I sent the Utah Open Source Conference a proposal for a presentation on “Building an Open Source Security Tool Set“. Presentations are voted on by the registered attendees and the other folks who have submitted a presentation. When I was making my votes, I saw that there were a lot of great abstracts. [...]
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