description:

In this talk Kyle Rankin will provide an introduction to performing forensics analysis on Linux machines using the popular Sleuthkit tools with their easy-to-use Autopsy web-based front-end. The talk will cover initial installation and configuration of Sleuthkit and Autopsy, basic concepts and considerations for a forensics investigation, and at the end there will be a demo with a compromised Linux image.

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Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration."

Rob will demonstrate the creation of a simple database driven web application using the Rails framework. He'll also talk about some of the best practices that Rails brings to the web programming table and how it, and projects like it, are making programming more fun.

description:

Matt Hargett, Director of Security Product Development at LogicLibrary, will talk about common patterns that lead to exploitable vulnerabilities. He will also demonstrate how LogicLibrary's tool, BugScan, can detect these vulnerabilities in application binaries, without any source code.

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Matthew Smith will be giving a talk about advanced usage of Linux on the WRT54G.

Short description of talk:

Topic 1: Using the WRT54G to make a cheap network bridge.

Topic 2: Using the WRT54G to monitor and control the physical world. I'll
talk about how you can monitor input pins and turn on/off output pins. With
a simple circuit (which I'll show) you can control anything you want.

Extra Links

Openwrt site:

http://www.openwrt.org

WRT54G compatibility information:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware

DD-WRT:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/

Doing the serial mod (includes where to buy the pcboard):

http://www.rwhitby.net/wrt54gs/serial.html

description:

Knoppix is a complete Linux distribution that runs directly from CD. One of its most popular uses is as a rescue and recovery CD since it includes a wide range of incredibly flexible tools to fix a computer that won't boot.

In this talk Kyle will discuss a number of different system recovery scenarios and how to use Knoppix (or another live CD) to restore both Linux and Windows systems. Among the recovery scenarios, Kyle will cover:

• Restoring the Linux boot loader
• Recreating the partition table from scratch
• Imaging hard drives, including drives with failures