We discussed TAILS, the TOR browser, privacy, creating anonymous personas, and maintaining anonymity. We also discussed security podcasts, the book Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan, the wanna-cry malware, encryption, BSides Denver, Great Scott Gadgets and the legal ramifications of open WIFI.
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
Dark Territory (on Amazon.com): http://a.co/gPieP7o
This coming weekend is a event called “March for Science”. In an era that plays fast and loose with facts, and has an active agenda to bury evidence, someone needs to stand up for the sciences. Take a look at the link below.
Maybe I’ll see you there!
Turnout has been great at all of the meetings this year. Many new faces. The new format for the meetings has worked out well. There may be a great many IT professionals in the group, but anyone is welcome. We encourage open minds, and the questioning of security and privacy. Get involved!
Don’t forget DC970 will have a Capture the Flag (CTF) event this Thursday night. https://dc970.org/2017/04/ctf-night/
February 2017 Meeting
7:00pm to ~9:00pm
10 people attended (1 first timers)
Demos:
Discussion
January 2017 Meeting
7:00pm to ~9:00pm
8 people attended (0 first timers)
Discussion
September 2016 Meeting
7:00pm to ~9:00pm
5 people attended (0 first timers)
Discussion
No meeting. Nearly everyone out of town at DEF CON.
June 2016 Meeting
7:00pm to ~9:00pm
4 people attended (0 first timers)
Discussion
LinkedIn and MySpace dumps
Russian hackers getting jailed
Facebook app with always-on mic
General chilling…
May 2016 Meeting
7:00pm to ~9:00pm
10 people attended (0 first timers)
Discussion
Current offerings of Cyber Security college courses in local schools
Career goals, discussion on where the industry is headed
Reminder that partner group DC970.org IRC chat is at #dc970 on freenode
Various discussion on the devices that people brought with them
April 2016 Meeting
7:00pm to ~9:00pm
6 people attended (0 first timers)
Discussion
Hanging out in the DC970 IRC chat room
How trusting layer 2 is (Static ARP entries used for password reset, known MAC, unknown IP)
Numerous side conversations
March 2016 Meeting
7:00pm to ~9:00pm
7 people attended (0 first timers)
Discussion
FBI and Apple news
Former Windows sysadmins reminiscing how awesome WindowsXP and Server 2003 were to work with.
Intro to PowerShell discussion
Discussion of a few articles articles from the current (Winter) edition of 2600
Support from a few members to contribute to the community web sites (this one and dc970.org).