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July Meeting - Rich MacVarish on SCADA Security and Auditing Security Devices

2008-06-24T17:40:29Z

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

Video - Hacker Jeopardy

2008-06-12T10:56:43Z

Here's the video of our hacker jeopardy game. Hopefully, this will help get our team into the Defcon Hacker Jeopardy Tournament.

June Meeting - Hacker Jeopardy

2008-05-25T19:26:14Z

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!

Video - Bruce Wattendorf - RepRap

2008-05-15T09:48:50Z

Here's the video of the Bruce's RepRap talk, which everyone agreed was a big success. Major props go to KurtK for saving our asses as last minute fill-in videographer.

Video - KurtK - iHack (and you can too!)

2008-05-01T10:41:07Z

Our faithful videographer, Flixis, is now setup with the blip.tv login. So now we shouldn't have to wait for my slacker self to upload the videos every month. Enjoy the show!

DC401 T-Shirts at the May Meeting

2008-04-29T02:21:22Z

Last week, I went and took Che's awesome Quahog and Crossbones image, ran it through Illustrator's trace function and popped out a halfway decent piece of line art. Then I added 'DC401' in American Typewriter and printed out a couple of copies on transparency film. Yesterday, I exposed a screen for an hour, rinsed out the unexposed part and printed up 10 shirts. The shirts are all men's large 50/50 cotton/poly super cheap-o shirts I got at Walgreens a while back for $2 each on which to practice screenprinting.

Of course, I have to keep one for myself, and one goes to Che, since it's his artwork. That leaves 8 shirts up for grabs. Two are super collectible "error prints". In my fine benevolent dictator way, I'll come up with some sort of random and completely unfair way to distribute the shirts. Come to the May meeting to see if you get one.

May Meeting - RepRap Maker Bruce Wattendorf presents his RepRap Machine

2008-04-21T10:21:05Z

Bruce Wattendorf is a Rhode Island based RepRap maker. He and his son have working on their RepStrap (because it has non replicated parts) since January 2007. Bruce will be bringing his RepRap in to demo its capabilities and talk about the process of actually building one. For anyone who's dreamed of printing 3D objects, this talk is for you.

Date/Time: 7 May 2008 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions

Update: We made it to the Make: blog and there's interest from people who won't be able to make it to the meeting. Fear not! We take video of most of the talks and intend to do so with this one too. Subscribe to the RSS feed and you'll catch the video when it shows up (usually a week or two after the talk itself.)

Video - Dan King - Intro to Pen Testing

2008-04-02T11:07:07Z

I'm a total slacker and finally got around to posting the video from the February meeting last night. Here it is in all its glory.

April Meeting - KurtK - iHack (and You Can Too!)

2008-03-18T15:24:23Z

Date/Time: 2 Apr 2008 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions

This month we have KurtK presenting "iHack (and You Can Too!)".

"In this talk I’ll be covering OS X (Leopard) installation on various hardwares, maintaining your installation (so it doesn’t break itself updating), as well as a guide to building your own Hackintosh from the ground up. I’ll also bring copies of install discs to share for anybody interested, however quantities are limited so they will be distributed first-come-first-serve."

Come on down learn first-hand from Kurt how to build yourself a Hackintosh.

Linux InstallFest at OSHEAN on April 5th

2008-03-04T00:48:24Z

OSHEAN and SNENUG are teaming up on April 5th to host a Linux InstallFest at the OSHEAN offices in North Kingstown. DC401 members Larry Pesce and Paul Asadoorian wlll be there helping folks install Linux on everything from new and old PCs to iPods and wireless routers. Give them a challenge and bring something really obscure on which to install Linux.

March Meeting - NickD and TylerW - The Internet is Serious F&*%ing Business

2008-02-22T11:47:24Z

Date/Time: 5 Mar 2008 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions

March 5th marks the start of our new night for DC401 meetings at AS220. From now on we'll be meeting on the First Wednesday of the month. This change will allow us to stick around at AS220 after the meeting and do our eating and drinking there, which should entice more people to stick around for the post talk discussion.

This month we have NickD and TylerW presenting "The Internet is Serious F&*%ing Business". We'll have to wait for the talk to see where the good hack is (bring your ShmooBalls in case one is lacking.) Knowing NickD's presentation style, this is guaranteed to be a laugh riot and should not be missed.

"The Internet is Serious F&*%ing Business will cover the social internet as it stands today. Covering all aspects of the Social Internet trend from businesses built around the Social Internet and Web 2.0 applications to how Social Internet trends have changed our personal internet experience and the way we communicate with people."

Come on down and lulz it up with NickD and TylerW on our new night.

Video - PaulDotCom on Embedded Device (in)Security

2008-02-07T12:24:41Z

After some trouble with the first DVD that Ed gave me, I finally got around to re-encoding and posting the second copy of this talk. Here now for you viewing pleasure is Paul Asadoorian's talk on Embedded Device (in)Security. You can find the slides for this and other talks in the Talk Archives on the wiki

Dan King - Intro to Penetration Testing (for reals!)

2008-02-05T11:19:10Z

No last minute trips to do on-site work for Dan this month; he's going to give the first in what will be a series of talks on Penetration Testing. Please join us next Monday, Feb 11th at 1730 at "AS220":http://as220.org for Dan King's talk on penetration testing. Dan is lucky enough to get paid to do penetration testing for a living at a leading managed security service provider. _Getting started with penetration testing can be a challenging task. Only by using a layered, structured approach can we deal with this mountain of data. Quite often new and complex vulnerabilities are daunted and difficult to wrap our brain around, but by taking things one step at a time, we can slowly pull the layers of the onion apart._ _This talk hopes to provide people with a rough structure and a method of getting their feet wet. I hope can spark conversation and discussion._ As usual, we have the performance space from 1730-1900. The talk will start around 1800. Show up early, grab a beer and join in the pre-talk socializing.

Tonight's Meeting is ON

2008-01-14T14:11:07Z

Since the Winter Storm Warning has been scaled back to end at 1pm, we're on for tonight. If you want to do the workshop, please try to get there at 5pm sharp so you can get started right away.

Snow Storm may postpone this month's meeting

2008-01-14T02:19:49Z

We've allegedly got another snow storm coming through tonight and tomorrow that is threating to yield 8-14 inches of snow. This may end up affecting whether we have the meeting tomorrow night. We'll know for sure by 1100 or 1200 tomorrow. Check back here or keep an eye on the mailing list for the latest scoop.