We don't have Mitch Altman in town this January, but we're still going to do a kit build anyway. We've got 15 Conway's Game of Life Kits coming in along with all the right angle connectors we need to hook them all up together. Once they're all put together we'll hook them up and get some good pictures and video of them. Ideally, it would be cool if people marked them with their names and left them for a couple of weeks so we can install the whole thing in the gallery window on the street.
Date/Time: 7 Jan 2009 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
Just in time for the holiday season, KurtK will walk us through Jail Breaking an iPhone or iPod touch and just why you would want to do it. Come on down and check out this second talk by Kurt focusing on how to do what you want with the products that come out of Cupertino
Date/Time: 3 Dec 2008 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
Dan's back in November with Part 2 of his Intro To Pen Testing series. This installment is on portscanning.
Scanning thousands of ports on hundreds of hosts take a long time and generates a ton of unnessecary network traffic. If you are trying to pwn a network or doing internet research this task can either make or break your goal. This talk hopes to give some insight into how portscanning works and ways to make the task simplier and easier to manage.
Date/Time: 5 Nov 2008 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
Ed's getting fancy with the video editing so it's easier to read the slides. Enjoy!
This month, we have Dennis Brown presenting an expanded version of the Asprox talk he'll be giving at ToorCon. They only gave him 20 minutes. We're giving him a whole hour.
The year 2008 has seen the rapid and pervasive rise of large-scale SQL Injection attacks as a mechanism for distributing malware. One of the most successful and interesting parties using this technique are the people behind the Asprox (aka Danmec) botnet. This presentation will discuss the reasons why the Asprox botnet is so successful and will lay bare the botnet in its entirety, explaining its structure, command and control architecture, describing executed attacks and diving into other aspects and details of this threat. Techniques to profile and detect infections and activity will be discussed, and code to detect & track the threat will be distributed.
Note! We're on a special night this month. AS220 has their Action Speaks! Series on the first, third and fourth Wednesdays, so we took the second Wednesday
Date/Time: 8 Oct 2008 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
For September's Meeting, Brandon and Tyler will be doing a screencast style demo of Common Lisp (CL). They'll be showing us all the cool things you can do with CL and try to convince us why we should give up the other languages we code in to use CL instead. Beyond learning about a different programming language, this talk is sure to stir up some animated discussion about the applicability of programming languages to various environments.
Date/Time: 3 Sept 2008 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
Since the bulk of us will be at Defcon in Vegas next Wednesday, there isn't going to be an August meeting. Most of your ought to know that, but I figured I'd post it just to be all official.
This month we have Rich MacVarish coming up from the middle Atlantic states to give us a talk based on some work he's recently done with SCADA security. Rich recently had an opportunity to pen-test and audit a new SCADA firewall product. He'll be talking about the results of that work and what you shouldn't do when you implement a security product. This should be a very informative talk. Come on out and welcome Rich back to New England for his short visit.
Date/Time: 9 July 2008 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
Here's the video of our hacker jeopardy game. Hopefully, this will help get our team into the Defcon Hacker Jeopardy Tournament.
In preparation for the August pilgrimage to Defcon, we'll be holding Hacker Jeopardy tryouts this month. Unfortunately, this doesn't guarantee us a slot in the game in Vegas, but it'll be hella fun anyway. We're even making a lockout button/buzzer set at this week's Tuesday night hack.
Prospective contestants need to be planning to go to Defcon, otherwise what's the point of trying out. If you would like to play, drop me an email.
Come on down (oops, wrong game show), toss back a few cold ones and be entertained as we toss out the answers and see who comes up with the right questions.
Date/Time: 4 June 2008 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
Update: NickD will be hosting Hacker Jeopardy. This should guarantee EPIC LULZ for all!
