It's possible to lease a virtual private server (VPS) for as
little as $10/year. I'll talk about what you get, what to
look out for, and how to find a good deal when shopping for
a budget server. Also a discussion about the OpenVZ
virtualization technology.

What would you do if you had to securely decommission a remote server without remote console or power access? How would you securely erase all the hard drives over an ssh session and halt the machine when you are logged into the machine itself? Kyle has recently done just this and in this (mostly live demo) talk, Kyle will walk you through the process of how to securely erase your server remotely.

Instead of a regular speaker, this month we are going to do a hackfest. Like the previous hackfests we will take half of the meeting to conduct lightning talks from the first four people who sign up for one. After that we will spend the rest of the time in a more loosely-structured social setting where everyone can show each other what they have been working on or ask for help. This would be a good meeting to bring your computers.

"Anonymous, Wikileaks, and DoS" -- Part of the talk is non-technical, about the exploits of Anonymous, Wikileaks, th3j35t3r, HB
Gary, B of A, etc., and then some demos, testing the common DoS tools against Apache, IIS, and nginx. Sam's webpage: http://samsclass.info/contact.html

OpenSSL is an open source security library providing the underlying cryptographic algorithms for many applications. This talk will focus on the steps necessary to enhance OpenSSL to make use of application specific hardware for cryptographic processing. The OpenSSL command line and kernel crypto interfaces will be discussed.

For this meeting we will revisit a time-honored (but recently neglected) NBLUG tradition: Stump the Geek. We'll open up the floor for questions about Linux and we'll try our best to answer them. Be gentle...

Instead of a regular speaker, this month we are going to do a hackfest. Like the previous hackfests we will take half of the meeting to conduct lightning talks from the first four people who sign up for one. After that we will spend the rest of the time in a more loosely-structured social setting where everyone can show each other what they have been working on or ask for help. This would be a good meeting to bring your computers.

When a server is used in production, you want every possible level of fault tolerance. Ethernet bonding allows you to create redundant NICs on a server so that you can lose a NIC, a ethernet cable, or even potentially a switch, without downtime.

In this talk Kyle will introduce the concept of ethernet bonding, discuss the different bonding modes, and describe how to set up bonding on Red Hat and Debian-based systems.

Instead of a regular speaker, this month we are going to do a hackfest. Like the previous hackfest we will take half of the meeting to conduct lightning talks from the first four people who sign up for one. After that we will spend the rest of the time in a more loosely-structured social setting where everyone can show each other what they have been working on or ask for help. This would be a good meeting to bring your computers.

SSH is one of the most widely used network protocols. Much more than a replacement for telnet, SSH has many tricks up its encrypted sleeve and harnessing them is a rite of passage for any keyboard cowboy. In this talk, Aaron will discuss the core protocol itself, the history of development and how you can use OpenSSH to better secure your packets through the tubes.