Join us November 17th for the very first #miseccon to help build a secure digital future for Michigan! Our conference provides a unique chance to learn from industry experts, share experiences, and collaborate on solutions that benefit both organizations and the wider community. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to develop your cyber security skills […]

Converge Conference 2019 Recorded Talks

Converge Conference 2019 Recorded Talks Title Presenter Abstract Honeybotting: Extracting Confessions From Client-Side Implants Lee Holmes While worms and automated attacks are a huge danger, persistent attacks that leverage interactive remote command and control servers can be especially damaging. But control of a remote machine requires one major thing: cooperation of the compromised. What if […]

Effective Immediately: #misec is going virtual until further notice

In-person meetups and social outings are suspended indefinitely due to necessary efforts to address our current public health risks. Guidance provided by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and state/local authorities will be continually reviewed and discussed so that we can resume normal meetups as soon as it is safe to do so. #misec is […]

RuCTFe 2019

Below is a post from Sam “tacoman” Shrum, one of our #misec members, who summarized our teams efforts at this years RuCTFe competition. His original post is at his personal blog: https://tacoman.github.io/2019/11/23/misec-ructfe-2019.html November 23rd was the RuCTFE 2019 competition, with my second year playing with the #misec team. Last year’s competition was my first CTF […]

GamerSec

GamerSec is an online infosec community for those interested in video games. It’s a place to discuss and play video games with others in the industry. We have weekly game nights for PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUND (PUBG), Blizzard games, and more. To participate we have a Google Groups (https://groups.google.com/d/forum/gamer-sec) and a Discord channel (https://discord.gg/xnBScrw) setup. If you have […]

Get ready for GrrCON 2017!

GrrCON is an information security and hacking conference that provides the Midwest InfoSec community with a fun atmosphere to come together and engage with like minded people. GrrCON is relatively small with around 1,500 attendees to allow for those things other events leave out. Whether you are a Fortune 500 executive, security researcher, industry professional, student, or a […]

HackTheArch2017 at Baker College

In June, #misec had a team compete with the baker cyber defense group in HackTheArch17. It was a Capture-the-Flag (CTF) event in which competitors or teams (max 4 players per team) use their cybersecurity techniques to solve puzzles in order to obtain flags. There were four teams at the college, we were remote and many […]

Road Trip to Circle City Con

CircleCityCon is June 9-11 in Indianapolis. Several #misec speakers are on the schedule, including Joel Cardella (The Decision Makers Guide To Managing Risk) and Wolfgang Goerlich (And the Clouds Break). And you know that threat modeling and security exercises thing #misec is always talking about? Wolfgang Goerlich is doing a 4-hour training class (Building and […]

Another Successful Converge/Bsides Detroit

On the heels of the fourth Converge Detroit and seventh Bsides Detroit, #misec celebrates another successful year contributing! Bsides Detroit was built on the idea of an interactive community based learning experience. Joined with Converge, that experience still lives on today through the conferences themselves, and through the creation of #misec at the first Bsides. However, […]

Building a Community

At the #misec meeting I attended in mid April there was a panel on building a infosec community… so I’m borrowing their title for a post and giving my two cents in order to spread the topic! I won’t give a huge synopsis of who said what like I did in my last post about a #misec panel. Instead, […]