ConFoo 2013: Call for Papers is Now Open!

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ConFoo is one of the most important developer-oriented conferences. ConFoo 2013 will be held on February 25 through March 1 in Montreal, Canada. The team has opened its call for papers. Candidates can submit proposals until September 23. Consult the call for papers page for details and to start submitting. That page also explains what [...]

MTLSec meetup Nov 16th

MTLSec meetup Nov 16th

This is a bit of last-minute, and is targeted at a niche but active and growing community in Montreal, those who are working in computer security. MTLSec is organizing an informal get together at Vieux-Dublin this evening. You can talk about the latest hackfest in Quebec city which got the team Amish Security from ETS [...]

[Upcoming] OWASP Montreal, VEGA, July 21st

[Upcoming] OWASP Montreal, VEGA, July 21st

The local chapter of OWASP, an international group dedicated to application security, invites anyone in Montreal interested in web application security to a presentation next thursday at 6:30pm. It’s going to be in Rom A-2330 at École des Technologies Supérieures, with David Mirza, founder of Subgraph, presenting their new open source product VEGA. VEGA was [...]

Want to see a nerdcore hiphop show? come to Recon’s party this friday

Want to see a nerdcore hiphop show? come to Recon’s party this friday

For those who are curious to see the hackers crowd, or have a first look of what’s a nerdcode hiphop / hackers show, come this Friday evening to Recon’s party at club Soda, 1225 bv st-Laurent, co-organized by CruizControl. It should be good fun, and it’s always interesting for a techie to meet hackers. More [...]

cryptocat offers simple & secure messenging

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Developed by security expert and Internet freedom activist Nadim Kobeissi (@kaepora), cryptocat is a simple and secure way to send & receive messages. In the case where you don’t want anyone or any organization to read the messages you’re sending, cryptocat encrypts your messages in the browser. The other person on the other end will [...]

WordCampMontreal & Recon upcoming this week

WordCampMontreal & Recon upcoming this week

If you are using wordpress, then head over next Saturday & Sunday to WordCampMontreal 2011. Of course, the event is also aimed at wordpress designers, wordpress developers, and generally speaking, to anyone who is blogging. As in previous years, the conference has 2 tracks, one for wordpress development, and another for bloggers. See the schedule [...]

Subgraph releases Vega, an open source web app security scanner

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Subgraph is this week at the International Free Software Forum, the biggest free software event in Latin America. Subgraph president and founder, David Mirza (@attractr) is speaking about open source and security. Subgraph is also using the opportunity to launch the public beta of Vega, a new security scanner that will hunt for vulnerabilities in [...]