Security Justice Shields for Rent!
We also want you to know that if you feel the need for “protection” from the potential barrage of incoming Shmooballs (especially you speakers), Security Justice is here to help! Rent yourself an official Security Justice protection shield for only $20 per hour.  Your donation of $20 goes to support the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) or Hackers for Charity, your choice.  If your interested, look for Dave Lauer (he is also one of the Shmoocon staff and also will have a *large* Shmooball Launcher with him) at the con and he will hook you up with your protection needs.  Please note that Security Justice co-hosts cannot be purchased to be used as shields (except for Dave Kennedy…he always has a price).

Podcaster Meetup – Saturday @7:30pm
Security Justice will be participating in the Podcaster Meetup which takes place 7:30 – 8:30pm on Saturday in the hallway of the main con area (same as last year).  Be sure to stay for Firetalks after the meetup! More information about the Podcaster Meetup is here and more info about Firetalks is here.

Talks and more!
Check out the Shmooball Launcher contest sponsored by Woot.com, Dave Kennedy speaking about and releasing the new version of SET at the Firetalks on Friday night and don’t miss Social Zombies II: Your Friends Need More Brains with Tom Eston, Robin Wood and Kevin Johnson.  Their talk is Saturday at 11am in the “Break It!” track.

See you all at Shmoo!

“Movember” participants have 30 days to grow a moustache from a clean shave, while earning support from friends and family in the form of donations. All money raised supports men’s health issues including prostate cancer research and anti-depression initiatives.

For some, participation in the event will involve significant sacrifice in the name of altruism. PaulDotCom Security Weekly co-host Larry Pesce has agreed to shave his entire face on November 1st.

Well known as a technology podcaster, Pesce is also renowned as the custodian of one of the finest facial forests ever seen in Rhode Island. It’s rumoured Pesce’s chin hasn’t seen sunlight since he hit puberty.

“My wife has told me I’m not getting any play until the goatee grows back,” Pesce says. “So I want this to be worth it.”

For Pesce’s colleague, fellow host Paul Asadoorian, the challenge will be actually growing a moustache in only one month. “I’m considering dosing up on synthetic horse testosterone,” says Asadoorian. “I know a veterinarian with a gambling problem, so I should be able to get my hands on something.”

Asadoorian, Pesce, Exotic Liability’s Chris Nickerson, Dave Lauer from Security Justice, SecuraBit’s Chris Gerling and Australia’s Patrick Gray– the host of the Risky Business podcast — are all on board.  More security podcasters have also been added recently.  You can see the full list here.

Gray hopes the charity drive will solicit donations from both listeners and security technology vendors. “We’re all really hoping the vendors will come to the party,” Gray says. “If we can get good participation from our listeners and the security industry itself, then we’re confident we’ll be able to raise a decent amount of money for a good cause.”

Supporters based in the USA are urged to make their donations to the Security Podcasters Alliance team (or individuals) on us.movember.com [1], while Australian supporters can donate to the Risky Business team or its members at au.movember.com [2].

[1] http://us.movember.com/mospace/members/search/q/security+podcasters
[2] http://au.movember.com/mospace/members/search/q/risky+business

Security Justice will be at Notacon this year in full effect!  Almost the entire podcast crew is speaking or volunteering (Matt, Tom, Dave and Chris) at Notacon this year.  Here is a schedule of where you can find us as well as some other talks we recommend you attend given by some of the friends of the show:

Friday, April 17th
Noon (West Ballroom)
Injection Rejection, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Bobby Tables – Mark W. Schumann (catfood)

2pm (East Ballroom)
Time To Replicate The Real Threat: Client Side Penetration Testing- Chis Gates (CG) & g0ne

3pm (East Ballroom)
Fast-Track: Advanced penetration techniques made easy – Dave Kennedy (ReL1K)

7:30pm (East Ballroom)
Notacon Mythbusters: Is Personal Data Stored on Hotel Keys? Using Magstripe Analysis Tools to Discover the Answer – Matt Neely (Zamboni)

Saturday, April 18th
Noon (East Ballroom)
The State of Apple Security – Chris Clymer

1pm (East Ballroom)
From a Black Hat to a Black Suit – The Econopocalypse Now Edition – James Arlen (Myrcurial)

5pm (East Ballroom)
The Rise of the Autobots: Into the Underground of Social Network Bots – Tom Eston (agen0x0)

6pm (West Ballroom)
Building, Securing, and Living With Game Servers – Bruce Potter

Security Justice Live on Notacon Radio
We should be recording special interviews and also will be live on Notacon Radio this year!  Follow us on twitter or check out our site for updates on when we will be live.

Lock Picking Village
Bring your picks and your lock picking skillz to Notacon this year at the Lock Picking Village presented by the Fraternal Order of Locksport (FOOLS).  Gringo Warrior will also be taking place!

DualCORE Live Saturday @9pm
Our friends and podcast sponsors DualCORE will also be performing live at Notacon starting at 9pm on Saturday night.  They always rock the house!  Don’t miss it!

These are just a few of the highlights of Notacon…but there is so much more!  For more details on the full line up of speakers and events check out the Notacon web site.  If you are not registered you can get a ticket at the door.  Listen live on Hak5Radio tomorrow night at 9pm EST (4/15) for special details about some of the talks and where you can find Security Justice at Notacon.  Hope to see you there!

First, the big news….

Our very own co-host Dave Lauer is speaking at ShmooCon with Larry Pesce from PaulDotCom on Building the 2008 and 2009 ShmooBall Launchers at 4:30pm on Friday, February 6th!  There are more details about this talk in the soon to be released Episode 9.  This is one presentation you don’t want to miss!

Security Justice will also be participating in the 3rd annual Podcasters Meetup.  If you are at the con stop by and check out the events that will be taking place on Friday and Saturday night.  If you are not at the con, tune in for the live stream on Friday night at 6pm.  Looks like there will be prizes and as always a great lineup of podcasts to include:

Hak5
PaulDotCom
CyberSpeak
Securabit
SploitCast
Unpersons
Phone Losers of America
SMBMinute

There will be a live podcast starting at 6pm with FireTalks and a party afterwards.  What are FireTalks?  From the Podcasters Meetup web stite:

“Have a talk that didn’t get accepted? Want the chance to share a project that you are working on? Think of FireTalks as a verbal blog post.

The human experience is built on the ability to tell and learn from stories. At SchmooCon 2009, “FireTalks” is a supportive environment in which to either share insights or learn from others. Whether polishing a presentation (story) for conferences, meetings or training, FireTalks are the way to share, learn and improve.

The inaugural FireTalks take place Friday night — following the Podcasters Meetup. Talks are limited to 10-15 minutes with four (4) scheduled talks and four (4) open slots. Open slots will be filled on a first come, first serve basis.

Saturday night will be more relaxed. Come join us and present, listen and learn.”

Be sure to check out the Podcasters Meetup web site for more details and the latest updates.  As always, thanks to Rob Fuller (aka Mubix) for putting together this great event.

Tom, Dave and Matt will be hanging around the entire weekend handing out Security Justice stickers, recording short video interviews and trying to stay out of trouble….we have a feeling that the Shmoo Ball launcher will be getting a lot of use!

Follow us on Twitter and send us a tweet if you are around at the con and want to hang out.  We hope to see some of you there!

You can download the podcast by subscribing to the Securabit iTunes feed or directly off of the Securabit web site.

Thanks again to the Securabit crew for inviting us to the podcast! It was a blast!

(Twitter FAIL picture courtesy of A Journal of Fine Hatery)

You will be able to listen to the stream on Hak5radio.com and chat in our IRC channel (freenode.net #securityjustice) during the stream.

If for some reason we can’t stream live it should make for a cool special edition either way.  We plan on interviewing folks from the Linux community as well as hanging out with the Notacon folks.

Stop by the Notacon table and say hi if you are at the conference!

Via Room362.com:

“A packer, also known as a run time packer, is a program which compresses another executable to a smaller size on disk.  When executed, the packed executable is uncompressed in memory and executes.  The time to uncompress the executable in memory is usually not noticeable, making it very advantageous to use one.”

Check out Tyler’s article over at Room362.com.

• PaulDotCom
• CyberSpeak
• Network Security Podcast
• Security Justice
• Securabit
• SploitCast
• Security Catalyst (possible)

Looks to be like a great time and good opportunity to hang out with your favorite podcast hosts!  Thanks to Rob Fuller (mubix) for organizing this event.  Hope to see some of you there!