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During the course of EnergizeIT I got a few questions about how to maintain your library of offline VMs that you have built for your test/lab environment or you have stored for various reasons.  I had mentioned the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Toolkit and saw today that they kicked off the beta for v3. VMST 3.0 helps customers more ...

It’s back!  Last years popular Hack and Defend workshops are back!  Step inside the mind of a hacker at Microsoft’s Hack and Defend Workshop. Discover the tactics used to penetrate your PC, become aware of the most threatening viruses online, and most importantly, learn how to help protect yourself. Hands-on presentations by ...

   What is the purpose of this alert?   This alert is to provide you with an overview of the new security bulletin being released (out-of-band) on January 21, 2010.   New Security Bulletin Microsoft is releasing one new security bulletin (out-of-band) ...

The other day this blog entry came through my RSS reader and got me thinking.  Security technologist and author Bruce Schneier wrote a post called Is Antivirus Dead?  He summarized his post with “Bottom line: antivirus software is neither necessary nor sufficient for security, but it's still a good idea. It's not a panacea that ...

So SecTor 2009 wrapped up the other day and again, like any conference I attend, a lot is learned.  The event was success in my opinion, from the venue to the food to the keynotes and of course the sessions.  Even the vendor area had some exciting things happening.  So what did I learn?  I am going to break it down buy the ...

It is almost that time of year again!  Time to put on the black/white/aluminum foil hat and learn about the latest in security.  I’ve said it before and I will say it again, you cannot protect against what you do not know exists.  We recently finalized the speakers and here is a glimpse at what you can expect this ...

Along with working on our own events like TechDays and EnergizeIT I also work in the community supporting the local technology user groups and other events such as SecTor.  I have been participating on the SecTor 2009 advisory committee as we pull together keynote and breakout session speakers, hand on labs and such.  This is the 3rd ...

Are you a father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt have friends, neighbors or know someone with kids?  Chances are you are or do, so when I say online safety is something that should concern all of us, whether you have kids or not, it shouldn’t be a surprise.  One of the challenges is with the technical savvy of today’s youth vs. ...

Culminis and Microsoft’s User Group Support Services (UGSS) are pleased to announce their co-sponsorship of a 9 User Group tour of Canada, between May 26 and June 18, 2009, by world renowned security expert, Kai Axford (CISSP, MCSE-Security). Kai is a Senior Security Strategist in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group and is based in Dallas, ...

Over the past few weeks I’ve been reading a few stories on vulnerabilities found in various operating systems.  You might have seen the headlines like Attack Sneaks Rootkits Into Linux Kernel or Security Team Shows Unfixable Windows 7 Hack or First Mac OS X Botnet Activated and while all are valid (both as exploits and as ultra scary ...