Conferences/Meetups
- Windows Weekly Meetup at PostDoc Brewing in Redmond from 5-8pm on February 29th w/ Mary Jo Foley and Paul Thurrott – http://www.geekwire.com/calendar-event/windows-weekly-meetup/
- SeaSecEast Meetup @ LunchBox Laboratory in Bellevue from 6:30pm to 8:30pm on Tuesday, March 1st. – http://www.meetup.com/SEASec-East/
Blogs/News
- Security – 90 Percent of All SSL VPNs Use Insecure or Outdated Encryption, Putting Your Data at Risk
- Security – Google Releases Project Shield DDoS Protection for press, human rights and election monitoring orgs
- Creeper – Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
- Hack – How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls (Bonus: Extension to bypass paywalls)
- Hacked – Who Hacked Us
- Hack – I Dared Two Expert Hackers To Destroy My Live. Here’s What Happened.
- Training – Learn SQL in 20 Minutes’ish
- Controversial Nerd Stuff – Why use www?
- Law – IT Manager Gets 30 Months in Prison for Trashing Ex-Employer’s Servers
- Automation – 19-year-old made a free robot lawyer that has appealed $3 million in parking tickets
- Security – Comodo AV Tech Support Feature Lets Anyone Connect to Your PC
- Security – Angler Exploit Kit Learns New Tricks, Finds Home on Popular Website
- Containerization – Introduction to Docker
- Security – Obscurity is a Valid Security Layer
- Security – Forthcoming OpenSSL Releases – High Severity!
- Security – Silverlight 0-day pwn’d Mac & Windows
- Privacy – Microsoft Telemetry Data Collection Explained by MS
- M&A – MS Acquires Xamarin
- Networking – University of Washington Researches Make Low-Power Wi-Fi Breakthrough
- Apple – Apple plans Siri for Mac for this fall’s OS X 10.12 Launch
- Powershell – Quick Test for Updates That Aren’t Installed
- Powershell – Install the AD Powershell Module on Windows 10
- Cloud – Explain Cloud Computing to Your Grandma
- Microsoft – Best Practices for Meetings Using Skype for Business – Large Audiences
- Mail – Common Errors in SPF Records
- Mail – Remote Exchange Monitoring and Reporting Using Email
- PM – Information Technology Risk Management
- Security – Tip: Quick Analysis of Office Maldoc
- Cloud – Spotify moves from AWS to Google Cloud Platform
- Powershell – Powershell Gallery Officially Goes Public
- Powershell – Use WMI the Modern Way