Vancouver has an ISMS User Group. The purpose of the user group meeting is to share information on the ISO 27000 family of standards through presentations and...
Agora is a half day quarterly meeting in Seattle. The group is informal, like the Vancouver security SIG, but a lot larger, and with participation from a...
At the meeting yesterday, it was suggested that we have a day for people to present "how to exploit" demos. We all get the warnings of things like the MS08-067...
I'm on the ESS GL (emergency housing) team, so disaster planning has been much on my mind leading up to the games. Any interest in addressing that topic in ...
I just got a message wanting to use our group to publicize a vendor seminar. As usual, I posted it on infosecbc@yahoogroups.com. However, should I be posting...
I am a bit freaked. Last month I received an email message from American Express. I very nearly deleted it unread: it was obviously phish, right? (I was...
Anybody know about an event slated for Oct. 22 in Vancouver, entitled "Road2Security"? According to the promotional materials, it is to be held at Mortons...
Google Streetview has come to Canada! All kinds of people are rejoicing: all kinds of privacy types are screaming. My wife sings at a Remembrance Day service...
Bob Tremonti will be back in town later this month, and has some time free Oct. 23 for lunch. Anybody wanna make a sushi experience out of it? (HP ProCurve...
Hi all, As in last Fall, I'm teaching a forth-year level undergraduate elective course on computer security <http://courses.ece.ubc.ca/412/> at UBC and am...
A special (I'm absolutely certain Kirk will make it so) disaster edition of Agora, will be held on 9/11. Carpooling? ====================== (quote inserted...
Still trying to get my usual list into the 140 character mandate: CISSP study books http://m6dl3.tk http://n1o0h.tk terms http://svgav.tk URLs http://relnn.tk...
Anyone have any comments on the affairs of late in Victoria as regards to the possible destruction of data, etc? There are a number of legal aspects to all of...
We got, out of the blue, an interesting request recently. One of the car fee areas this summer is Main Street, and we've received an invitation to put up a...
Dale Jackaman noted a story that has some relevance for us: http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2009/07/21/RailgateWatergate/ ====================== (quote inserted...
September is generally our AGM, so we'd be holding it Wednesday, September 9, 2009, unless something really calamitous happens. First off, anybody want to...
We've got a room for July. We even had a suggestion for a topic. In these tough times, it's particularly hard on consultants, since external contracts may be...
For those into social networking, we have created InfoSecBC groups on both Facebook and LinkedIn (and hope we won't live to regret it). Anyone who has any idea...
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