It may have taken me four months to send this year's first nmap-hackers mail, but the second only took me four hours. I want to let you all know that Nmap has been accepted for the fourth year running to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. This generous and innovative program provides $4,500 stipends to hundreds of university students to create or enhance open source software. Applications are only accepted for one week, until Monday, March 31.

If you are a college student in any country, I'd strongly encourage you to apply for Nmap SoC. There aren't many opportunities available to get paid to work on free software of your choice, and this is one of them. The last three years have been great! Even if you aren't a student, perhaps you have a talented friend or relative who might be interested. This program is a great benefit to Nmap, and the benefit is proportional to the quality of applicants we get. So please spread the word! Some SoC students have turned into long-term Nmap developers and are still writing great new code. Several have become SoC mentors to guide new Nmap SoC students.

Summer of code successes in recent years have lead to the 2nd Generation OS detection system, the Zenmap GUI, the runtime interaction feature which tells you how soon your scan is likely to finish, and much more. Here are more Nmap SoC success stories:

1. 2007: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q4/0024.html
2. 2006: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q1/0235.html
3. 2005: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=183143&cid=15133184

If you or someone you know are interested, you can send them to the Nmap 2008 project ideas page at:

http://nmap.org/GoogleGrants.html

And you can learn more about the program in general at:

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/

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ISW's Charles Hornat will be mentoring another SANS class in New York City. This class focuses on what is needed to be known for Information Security Managers. Charles will share his experiences as a Security Manager at companies like Sony and Standard and Poors. This class will begin on October 30th in Times Square, NYC.

If you would like more information or would like to sign up, please go to www.sans.org.

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Josh Wright, an instructor for SANS , has produced a video demonstration on how to manipulate a BlueTooth headset. He clealy shows how easy it is to remotley connect to a victims headset, and eaves drop, even while the victim is not in a call, and/or inject audio in to the headset.

This is a must view!

To view it click here.

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