April Meeting (05 APR 2013)
7pm to 8:30pm
5 people attended at Starbucks (1 first timer)
Technical Topics:
Social Engineering Prevention
Bitcoin – Recent price, online vs offline wallet
Mimikatz – Local (Windows) OS private key compromise utility
Non-Technical Topics:
Politics of Anonymous
March Meeting (01MARCH2013)
7pm to 8:30pm
7 people attended at Starbucks (3, first timers)
Technical Topics:
Facebook Security/Privacy
Cellular Provider Man in the middle, before page loads on SSL pages.
>Mapped WiFi grid systems tracking your every move.
How to be aware of your data in the cloud.
Physical Security – Social Engineering, the faults in our enviornments.
Vlan isolation on public wifi
How can we affect better security awareness in our spheres of influance?
Stuxnet – How it was spread and what was done about it.
Anti-fragility
The origan of the Blackswan – Taliv
Firewire DNA4 Hack – full access to live state RAM
Softpro – Why assembler should be your first programing language.
Non-Technical Topics:
“Gray-haired computing“
Punch Card Systems – why you learn to number your cards….
Don’t forget to clip in when climbing Radio towers.
Band Printers, where we all began(Pre-1986)
RF Broadcasting – If it’s got lights or buttons it your responsibility.
February Meeting (2/1/2013)
7pm to 8:30pm
4 people attended at Starbucks
Technical Topics:
Whitelisting apps to prevent malware/virus infection
Tor hidden services (.onion)
Review the new 2600 calendar for 2013
Certifications – Are they worth the effort?
Physical Security – Cameras, Leaky Coax
VI vs VIM (text editing in *nix)
RetroShare
One member lost an IronKey this week, not worried due to encryption
Non-Technical Topics:
Define a list of recommended links for this site, approved by members.
http://www.overthewire.org/wargames/
A variety of exercises to test your 31337 sk1llz. I recommend starting with NATAS (on the left bar). It’s 17 levels of web-based (no SSH, no compiling, no buffer overflows) offensive fun to get started.
January Meeting
7pm to 8:30pm
5 people attended
Technical Topics:
Review new 2600 magazine articles
Anonymity network usage (Tor, I2P)
Web User agent
Online news/podcasts to security news
Non-Technical Topics:
Coffee vs Espresso – best mg/$ ratio for caffeine
December Meeting
7pm to 8:45pm
4 people attended (one first-timer)
Technical Topics:
Music hacking articles from http://musicmachinery.com/
-Discovering click-track usage via analysis
-The infinite jukebox (http://labs.echonest.com/)
Game hacking scripts/client-side processing
UPEK laptop biometric vulnerability (found via Security Now! podcast)
Usage of DroidSheep on Android OS
Non-Technical Topics:
Fun with OSX PhotoBooth software
Attempted to help all-female Starbucks staff fix a stuck lever on the espresso machine. Failed, but still got free goodies.
Attendance: 4
Compare/contrast Tor/I2P/Freenet
Using key files with TrueCrypt
Running multiple web sites on a single IP/Port using host headers
PKI (What does it mean when you get certificate warnings in your browser?)
We started a little before 7pm, and talked until about 8:30pm before getting hungry and changing venues.
IceQUICK
