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This one is just epic: epic length, epic bad sound quality, epic content. Georgia and Micheal interview members of the red and white teams from the recent JMU cyber defense competition.

All listeners will be glad to know that as of this morning I can now wear the Hackers for Charity shirt to work. Woot!

Peter Hesse our red team guest is the president of Gemini Security Solutions. The blog post about the competition mentioned in the show is here.

Only 3 days past the deadline the GRM n00bs are proud to present The Last Train to Texas a short documentary chronicling JMU’s experiences preparing for and competing in the 2009 Collegiate cyber defense competition.

Also be sure to check out the offical CCDC documentary at Cyberwatch’s channel. It features the GRM n00bs as well as the other competitors, red team members, and organizers. Georgia’s interview is in part 2, and the infamous birthday scene is in part 4.

Interviews with the red and white team members from the JMU cyber defense competition are coming your way.

Georgia “Abandon Ship” Zodiac

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In this episode I interview Kyle, a member of the winning team from the JMU cyber defense competition. Rachel was on the second place team and also talks about her experience under my reign of carnal pwnage! *evil laugh* Might have to turn down the sound a little on this one.

Show notes:

Pictures from the competion. Note Rachel’s face.

Metasploit Training with alot of valuable information.

Please donate to Hackers for Charity if you use the Metasploit Training. Also note the donor cloud and who’s name is in it.

Georgia “Bob” of the Red Team

I recently did a screencast about the dangers of Cross-Site Scripting. Too often, developers of web applications blow off security reports of XSS. Hopefully this video outlines some of the reasons why web developers need to be more careful.

Yes, I realize I nubbed on some of the metasploit stuff. That’s what I get for not testing.

I am without internet for a few days, but here’s something until the podcast comes in a few days.

http://www.vimeo.com/6952783

Micheal, aka SneakySimian

Georgia is going to be completely offline for the next couple of weeks. Imagine a life with no internet, no phones, no electricity. In the meantime the GRM n00bs have been gearing up for our red team debut at the JMU cyber defense competition for high school students. Let the carnage begin! The event will also mark the release of the 2009 JMU CCDC video.

Here’s a trailer to tide you over:

Georgia “Saving the World” the Hedgehog

The n00bs now have email. Write us at feedback@grmn00bs.com. You can also chat with us individually to plot a coup to overthrow our tyranical ruler (me) at georgia@grmn00bs.com, rachel@grmn00bs.com, and micheal@grmn00bs.com.

There’s cool stuff coming.

Georgia “Agent Deployed” Bonaparte.

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In this episode Micheal and Georgia discuss identity theft with personal anecdotes and tips for keeping your soul safe.

Shownotes:

Apache downtime blog post

ATM awareness slide deck

Woman arrested for having identity stolen

Identity theft guide

Social Media Security Podcast

Another tip: Don’t take the mail to the mailbox until it is time for the mail. Also, try to avoid letting the mail sit in the mailbox for extended periods of time when the mail arrives. The less time mail sits out, the less chance for something to go wrong. This happened to a guy and his Netflix DVDs.

Georgia “Wrong Side of the Color Wheel” Awesome

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This one is twice as long as any of our others, and it’s about absolutely nothing.  We finally got Rachel talking.  We talk about Defcon, Halo, airplanes, clothes, and suggestive slogans.

The Podcaster’s Meetup audio is here: http://pauldotcom.com/2009/08/pauldotcom-friends-present-def.html

We got a lot of requests for proper RSS feeds and iTunes and since Blogger doesn’t offer that (at least, not that I could see), Wordpress it was. Changes are still afoot while we get iTunes setup and various other things setup.

Episode 5 is almost finished and hopefully once that’s done, iTunes will be setup too.

Edit: Almost forgot, here’s the link that Paul from pauldotcom posted of the podcaster’s meetup from Defcon: http://pauldotcom.com/2009/08/pauldotcom-friends-present-def.html

The GRM n00bs visited Defcon this past week. We were on the Defcon podcast, and we subsequently made our own podcast about our experience. While you are waiting for that enjoy these:

GRM n00bs and co.

I owe mother alot of money for the trip.

Georgia