When: July 23, 6PM

Where: Credit Suisse, Kameleon building at Szewska st., 1st. floor

See you at the meeting!

To the point: if you're from Wrocław area or if you happen to be around on July 3, be sure to come to the ISSA Polska meeting in Wrocław. We plan the meeting to be real fun this time. We'll be having a guest from Credit Suisse IT Risk dept. giving a talk. We also plan to discuss latest incidents in Poland.

When: July 3, 6PM

Where: Credit Suisse, Kameleon building at Szewska st., 1st. floor

See you there!

When was the last time you got a phishing email? Not that long ago, I bet. Me too. There is nothing unusual in it, nowadays we get so much of it that we simply get used to it and usually just silently delete or ignore it (if spam filters don’t do it for us).

So, why am I talking about this? Well, because of a funny coincidence. Or maybe it wasn’t that much of a coincidence… Here is the story.

We're gonna do it for the fifth time already! Whooohoo! :)

This time the main theme will be Intrusion Detection Systems and Web Application Firewalls. Also a discussion panel is planned so that we all could shout at each other and throw blunt objects in each other’s general directions.
Here is the agenda:

1. A warm welcome (myself)
2. Intrusion Detection Systems (Wojtek Wirkijowski)
3. Web Application Firewalls (Edward Weinert)
4. Discussion Panel (Andrzej Piotr Kleśnicki)

And as always, there is a prize to be won.

See you at the meeting!

As probably most of you guys, I’m not spending my day fuzzing stuff, but, probably as most of you again, I’m bumping over a software glitch from time to time. Sometimes, when I’m in the mood, I’m poking the hole to see what happens.

And I was in the mood that day.

It's been hands-on and it's been fun! :) Huge thanks goes to Edi Weinert and Tadeusz Kowalczyk who put all this together and made the whole thing possible. And of course thanks to you all! I hope you enjoyed the workshop and we'd really love to hear your comments on what we could do better next time.

Hope to see you next time! And in the meantime, be sure to click at the photo for more geeky shots.

Thank you all once again!

Thank you! Thanks to all of you who made it to the meeting despite the fact that we have changed the location twice. And my apologies to all of you, who didn’t. We will do our best to make sure it doesn’t happen anymore.

Despite all the trouble, the meeting was fun. We totally run out of schedule due to discussions that broke out during the first talk. Oh, and the cookies were awesome! Not to mention the coffee.

We have one piece of slides this time, so, for all of you who would like to go through the presentation again and for others that didn’t make it to the meeting, here it is.

Thanks again and see you next month!

Let me invite you to another ISSA meeting in Wroclaw. It’s the third meeting already and this time we’ll be discussing Computer Forensics and Incident Response. We’ll be having a discussion panel as the last time and we’ll let you guys win some prizes in a competition.

All that and even more on Mar 11, 2008 at 6pm.

Where? At BZ WBK Wroclaw HQ, Rynek 9/11 (second door if you look from the pl. Solny direction). At Politechnika Wroclawska, Janiszewskiego 11/17, building C3, room 118 (enter either through building C-1 or C-5).

An important note: you need to register for the meeting before Feb 4, 2008, 9pm at the latest. In order to register, please use the following link.

UPDATE: This time we meet at Politechnika Wroclawska, Janiszewskiego 11/17, building C3, room 118 (enter either through building C-1 or C-5).

Tons, and I mean TONS, of "undeliverable message" bounces together with quite a lot of my favourites – out of office notes. When you think about it, quite a lot of information is being thrown at you in such messages. Here are some sanitised examples (all in German, as my email address sells on a German market, apparently).

What’s in it?

• A remote DoS on Vista,
• A tale of a deadly Android,
• A short story of hacking PSP,
• Everything you ever wanted to know about hosting, but were afraid to ask,
• Challenges of risk analysis,
• Securing SQL Server 2005,
• Polish law and hacking,
• TPM in GNU/Linux,
• and much, much more.

I had a pleasure to share some thoughts on risk analysis in this issue, so be it only for that I really encourage you to visit your newsagent and give this fine new magazine a try.

We did it again! About 30 people came to the second ISSA meeting in Wroclaw (thank you guys!), we had two talks and a really nice discussion afterwards. And this time we even had a full-blown catering! :) A big thanks goes to BZ WBK for hosting the meeting again and to ISSA Polska for sponsoring coffee and the snacks for the meeting.

It was really nice meeting all of you guys! Thanks a lot and hope to see you next month!

And for all of you who didn’t make it to the meeting, here are the slides.

After an indubitable success of the first ISSA Polska meeting in Wroclaw I’d like to invite you to the secondo one. This time the topic will be Two Factor Authentication. As kind of an innovation, we’ll be having a discussion panel after a series of short talks.

And as another innovation, we’re planning to squeeze the whole meeting into two hours, so that we'll have more time for the after-party.

Hope to see you at the meeting!

When? Feb 12, 2008 at 6pm.

Where? At BZ WBK Wroclaw HQ, Rynek 9/11 (second door if you look from the pl. Solny direction).

An important note: you need to register for the meeting before Feb 4, 2008, 9pm at the latest. In order to register, please use the following link.

Have fun!

A big thanks goes to BZ WBK for hosting our meeting and to all those without whose help the meeting wouldn’t have happened. Also, special thanks to Patryk Gęborys, President of ISSA Polska for coming from far Warsaw just to be at the meeting and, of course, to all of you guys, who were with us.

See you in a month! And in the meantime help yourselves to the slides below.

Cheers!

What do you think about public speaking? Are you, by any chance, one of those people who feel entirely confident when performing on stage? No trembling hands at all? Maybe you feel like you were born to motivate people and encourage them to excel? Do you? Statistics say you most likely don’t. And you know why? Because people aren't usually born ready and prepared to get on stage and give a wonderful emotional performance. And if they think they do, they usually give a pretty crappy one. You are not born a speaker, you become one.

So, to rephrase, have you ever thought of becoming a successful public speaker? Have you ever wanted to overcome your fears? If you did and you haven’t heard about Toastmasters yet, it’s something you should definitely try. Find a club near you and go to the meeting. See how it is and if you like it, join and start amazing even yourself!

If you live in Wroclaw area, Poland, you’re lucky, as there are two clubs currently forming in Wroclaw – an English speaking one and another, Polish speaking. If you’re interested, feel free to subscribe to our mailing list and sign up to our Goldenline group, as these are the places where you can hear the news. You may also like to visit our website. And of course, be sure to visit our demonstration meeting soon!