Birmingham Infragard

Event: Birmingham InfraGard February 2012 Meeting
Date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Topics:

• Assistant US Attorney Jim Phillips will speak briefly about important current legal topics (download his slides here)
• Lora McIntosh of BCBS of Alabama will speak about application security in “Application Security in the Real World” (download her slides here)

Location:

Blue Shield Blue Cross of Alabama
450 Riverchase Parkway East
Birmingham, AL  35244

NOTE: You need to RSVP Sheila Shunnarah (sshunnarah@bcbsal.org) if you plan on attending.

Event: Birmingham InfraGard January 2012 Meeting
Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Time: 9:00 – 11:00

Topics:

• UAB’s Director of Research in Computer Forensics, Gary Warner will discuss the Department of Homeland Security’s new Blueprint For A Secure Cyber Future. You may download Gary’s slides here.
• Assistant US Attorney Jim Phillips will speak on legal issues surrounding computer access.

Location:

US Attorneys Office – Birmingham
1801 4th Avenue North
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
(205) 244-2001
Fax (205) 244-2171

NOTE: Prescreening can take a while, please arrive a bit earlier than normal.

oooooooooooo High Def Reconnaissance oooooooooooo

Event: Birmingham InfraGard July Meeting
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Time: 9:00 – 11:00
Site: The University of Montevallo
Wills Hall, Room 200

ooooooooooooooo SQL Injection ooooooooooooooo

The address for Mutual Savings FCU is 2040 Valleydale Road, 35244. It is located between 31 and I65. 2 blocks from the Hoover Police complex. If you are coming from I65 it will be on your right. We will need a headcount so please RSVP to shawnuff at gmail dot com and steve dot adwell at gmail dot com.

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We are very thankful that the EMA was able to reschedule this event. I am very proud of the way that Alabama has handled emergencies in the past and encouraged that we will be prepared for future emergencies.

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As attacks become more sophisticated, are we, the defenders, keeping pace?  What is defense in depth, what does it accomplish, and how is it changing.  Also covered, the NSA’s High Assurance Platform and what it means to you.  And the most import part of security and defense, navigating at layer 8.

Defense in Depth: Raising the Bar

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The Alabama EMA tour on Tuesday January 11had to be canceled due to inclement weather.

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David Wharton’s excellent Cross-Site Scripting presentation and the BeEF demo. Defending from the criminals often requires us to understand their tools and resources. This was an excellent example and I’m sure all who attended came away with a new perspective on website security. Below you will find a link to his presentation.

Cross-Site Scripting Presentation

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I want to thank Joshua Smith for his presentation on the StuxNet malware. If you missed the presentation or you would simply like to review what was covered, here are links to Joshua’s BLOG and to his presentation PDF.

StuxNet Technical Political and Business Analysis

StuxNet Presentation

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You may have heard that we hold Monthly Meetings. To find out more about these meetings click here or click on the “meetings” tab above.

The Birmingham Chapter of InfraGard is celebrating its ninth year as a chapter. Founded September 6, 2001, our chapter meetings have been attended by more than 500 concerned American citizens who wish to help protect our nation. The 300+ members of the local chapter are part of the more than 37,000 national members who realize that it is *OUR* job to protect our nation’s Critical Infrastructures. We do this by gathering together monthly and communicating on our mailing lists to share information between our members and with the federal government about risks to our nation’s Critical Infrastructures. In many cases, we end up discussing Cyber Threats, because Cyber is the one Infrastructure that is present in all of the others.

Our Mailing Lists

We have three mailing lists sponsored by our chapter:

Birmingham_Chapter@infragard.org:
This is our main chapter mailing list. Meeting announcements, alerts, and discussion of interest to the chapter occurs here. The strength of our chapter is the relationships we have with our fellow security professionals. This mailing list is what keeps those relationships strong between meetings. Members can post questions or insights and have discussions with other members.

Birmingham_Announcements@infragard.org:
This is the list for those who want to receive the occasional update about meetings or important and timely security announcements from the Birmingham Chapter, but do not want to follow long threaded discussions via email.

To join either of these mailing lists, just send an email to the list address, in bold, with the subject “Subscribe” and an admin will receive a notice, and add you to the list.

ig_malware@infragard.org:
This mailing list is the successor to the popular “packet-ninjas” mailing list that established Birmingham InfraGard as the geekiest chapter of the 86 national chapters. The purpose of this list is to escalate the value of our members’ research in cyber security matters by allowing for information sharing across the 86 chapters. Perhaps each chapter only has five people who are truly analyzing malware and determining the threat level, the functionality, the proper defense, and the point of origin of a new virus, worm, or botnet. With 86 chapters that could still be a valuable pool of 430+ if they were all sharing their knowledge with each other. We call ourselves a “volunteer forensics community” and welcome queries regarding malware threats from law enforcement or the general membership.

To join this mailing list, please login to the InfraGard Secure VPN, and visit this URL after logging in:

https://igc.infragard.org/http/listserv.infragard.org:8080/mailman/listinfo/ig_malware