Thursday, June 8th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

Hello Hackers, and Happy Summer

This month in lieu of a formal speaker we will be gathering as a community for a little show and tell. Bring a project you’ve been hacking away at, or an idea you’ve had in mind to share with the group.

**BONUS**

If we have time let’s cover some topical topics like Defcon! who’s all going and should we do a meet up? Plus we have a Toxic BBQ to plan and we’ll be looking for volunteers.

Per usual we’ll will be meeting online at https://cafe.cyberia.club/dc612.

Show and Tell starts at 6:12 PM U.S. Central, but feel free to hop in early and chat.

-Kat

Thursday, July 14th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

Lets gather this month to celebate Fête nationale française! otherwise known as Bastille Day. What does Bastille Day have in common with our speaker this month you ask? Well, nothing but I’m sure we can come up with some correlation between Kratom and the storming of the Bastille.

This month we are joined by local scientist and opioid researcher, Pthamm. They will bring us all up to date with the latest research on Kratom – what we know from the peer-reviewed published studies and what we don’t.

Pthamm will answer questions like “What are the claims people are making about Kratom and what can the science say about those claims”. Pthamm read the peer reviewed scientific studies so you don’t have to!

As usual these days of Covid, we will be meeting online at https://cafe.cyberia.club/dc612.

Talk starts at 6:12 PM U.S. Central, but feel free to hop in early and chat.

Hope to see you there in your Blue, White and Red!

-Kat

Thursday, November 11th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

This month we have a special guest from our neighbors over at 613, who is here to talk about getting into Reverse Engineering!

All Software is Open Source: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering

Commercial software is full of dark secrets – embedded keys and passwords, hidden backdoors, security vulnerabilities… But with companies guarding proprietary source code, is there any hope of discovering and rectifying them?

Enter Reverse Engineering. With its powerful tools and techniques, you can analyze any closed-source software, and have fun doing it!

Dmitriy Beryoza

He/Him – Senior Security Researcher – Vectra AI
Dmitriy is a Senior Security Researcher at Vectra AI. Before that he was a pentester and secure software development advocate at IBM. He spent over 25 years of his life building software before realizing that breaking it is much more fun. Dmitriy is passionate about all things security, with particular interest in reverse engineering, binary exploitation, secure software development, and CTF competitions.

As usual these days of Covid, we will be meeting online at https://cafe.cyberia.club/dc612.

-kat

Thursday, October 14th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

Happy Spooky Season to you and yours!

We're gathering at the same bat time, same bat channel this October, welcoming a returning champion and DEFCON chapter founder, @videoman!!

He's done a number of projects with hardware hacking the last year, and wants to share some of the fun things that he was able to accomplish, including buffer over flows on serial, MDNS overflows in embedded systems, and other fun topics in embedded hardware. He'll also do a quick intro on some of the basic tools that help a lot to debug, and great embedded devices.

David M. N. Bryan is a penetration tester with X-Force Red, IBM’s elite security testing team. Responsibilities include establishing standardized tools and processes for our consultants and working with clients on penetration testing projects. David has well over a decade of experience. From being a defender of security at a top ten banks, to securing the DEF CON network. David has been a participant in the information security community for over two decades. David has been the attacker in many scenarios as a penetration tester covering: ATMs, embedded devices, network, wireless, web applications, and physical security. David has presented at many security conferences including: BlackHat, DEF CON, ToorCon, LayerOne, ToorCamp, BSides Events, AppSecUSA, Etc.

As usual these days of Covid, we will be meeting online at https://cafe.cyberia.club/dc612

-kat

DC612 ToxicBBQ – Saturday July 24th noon – 4pm @ Lauderdale Community Park

IRL DC612, could it be true ?

While our meetings are staying virtual for the time being, we couldn’t pass up the chance to schedule a real life, in-person BBQ, ToxicBBQ – DC612 Edition.

For those unaware of the ToxicBBQ tradition, it’s simple. We provide the space, you show up with you favorite grill item to share. Folks are welcome to bring meat to brill, veg items, chips and anything that might be helpful or tasty. Recommendation for contributions are in the Google Doc. PLEASE tell us what you’re brining so we don’t end up with 800 hotdogs and no buns, okay?

Sign-up Sheet For Food, Beverages, Charcoal and Misc

We have the Picnic Shelter @ Lauderdale Community Park reserved for 4 hours, from noon – 4pm, thanks to long time attendee and friend of DC612, Josh. He had to brave city hall and government forms to get us this park shelter rental. When you see him, say THANKS!

2328 Roselawn Ave W, Lauderdale, MN 55113