North Bay Linux Users Group - Difficulty: Advanced

General Meeting -- Introduction to Forensics

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:41:53 -0800

Start: 2008/02/12 - 7:30pm

End: 2008/02/12 - 9:00pm

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.

Location:
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol

Speaker:
Kyle Rankin

General Meeting - Ruby on Rails

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:11:54 -0800

Start: 2006/01/10 - 7:30pm

description:

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.

Location:
O'Reilly in Sebastopol

Speaker:
Rob Orsini

Bugscan: Auditing binaries without source code

Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:47:50 -0800

Start: 2005/02/08 - 12:30pm

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.

Location:
<a href="http://nblug.org/genloc">O'Reilly</a>

Speaker:
Matt Hargett

General Meeting - WRT54G Part 2

Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:59:33 -0800

Start: 2005/11/08 - 7:30pm

End: 2005/11/08 - 9:00pm

description:

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

Location:
O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA

Speaker:
Matthew Smith

System Rescue With Knoppix

Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:14:36 -0800

Start: 2005/03/08 - 12:30pm

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

Location:
O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA

Speaker:
Kyle Rankin