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2013 is our 30th anniversary!

The Vancouver Security Special Interest Group started up in 1983. Therefore, 1983 is our 30th anniversary.

Come out and see Ivan Orton, one of the regular, most interesting, and most entertaining Agora speakers, who will be, quite appropriately, giving us a retrospective of his more than 30 year career in fighting cybercrime!

Any suggestions for the AGM? Contact our dicussion mailing list or Rob Slade at rslade@vcn.bc.ca, or even on Twitter!.

June 2013 SecSIG meeting

Back in The Vault.

Orvin will be giving us a presentation, and then George will be giving us a challenge!

May 2013 SecSIG meeting

Chet, at the last minute, gave us two great presentations.  He promised me that they were both under 7 megabytes in size (the limit for uploads to our site here), but, in fact, only the Blackhole kit presentation is small enough.  (I've also converted it to PDF, for those who haven't yet "upgraded" their Microsoft Office to LibreOffice.)

 

Fortunately, PDFs turn out to be smaller than OPDs, so I was able to get the PDF of the ransomware presentation in here, too  :-)

 

March 2013 SecSIG meeting

Date: 2013 March 15, 2pm-4pm

Speaker:

Rob Slade

Topic: Emergency Management training

 

More information here.

The manual and training schedule from Rob's presentation can be found here.

Clive's presentation is below:

30th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!

January 23rd, 2013, all day

 

Speakers:

Glen Bruce, Orvin Lau, Allan Alton, George Robinson, Bob Tremonti, Rob Slade

 

(The malware presentation file also includes notes.)

 

CIPS-SIG Meeting October 12, 2012

Date: 2012 October 12, 2pm-4pm

Venue:
Sophos, 580 Granville Street, Vancouver
Host at Sophos: Chester Wisniewski

Speakers:
Merlyn Horton, SOLOS
Gordon Ross.

For more information click here

2012 AGM and PCI DSS Scope

The biggest AGM we've had in years, covering relations with the other groups in the city, our usual coup opportunity, and a presentation on how you can actually succeed with PCI.

For years I've been telling my seminars that dealing with PCI scope is the way to make it work. Now we've got Tom Wahl to tell us how you can do that.

Click here for more information.

The slides of the presentation are available below.

Member preferences survey

We've been working on the member preferences survey for a while now, with Don Gurski doing the work. He's done a great job, but we want to get a broader range of responses, if possible.

You can download the survey, as a document, below, but here are the questions:

1. How long of a meeting do you want?
1 hour ...a 45 minute presentation with 15 minute question period.
2 hour ...a 1 hour presentation with 30 minute break and 15 minute question period.
3 hour ...two 45 minute presentations with 15 minute question periods.
Other?

2. What type of meeting would you appreciate?
Presentation only
Presentation & panel discussion
Panel discussion only

3. What topics are of interest to you?

4. What is currently your most important security topic?

5. Do you have any suggestions for improving the CIPS SIG Meetings?

You can contact us directly using this website's contact form: SecSIG Contact Form

March 2012 meeting

March 6

Yvan Boily on Open Identity, Facebook, Google, Twitter, OpenID, BrowserID, and a new tool from Mozilla that illustrates how 3rd party sites track user information.

For more info see here.

RSVP is required to Tina.

UPDATE:
Here are a few things that Yvan mentioned in his presentation:

BrowserID Security Review -
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Reviews/Identity/browserid
BrowserID Security Discussion -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjdJvoWl-
gk&feature=plcp&context=C30021bfUDOEgsTo
PDskKWL2gfWjwh9j8qrZeINcE5

Collusion - http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/
Ghostery - http://www.ghostery.com/

Agora

Next meeting is June 29.