DC612 Meetings

Defcon 612 meeting posts.

August 12th Meeting – 6pm Elsie’s

Written by  on August 5, 2010

This month Rachael Lininger will give a presentation about differences in conflict resolution styles. She’ll be asking for volunteers to participate in her graduate research project on the conflict resolution style preferences of information security professionals.

Videoman will also be giving us an overview on what it takes to run the network at DefCon, labeled by many as the “most hostile network on the planet”.

As always, everyone is welcome!

Please rsvp so we can make sure we have enough chairs: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/791425174

This meeting will be held at Elsie’s Bar and Bowling Alley.

Agenda :

6PM-7:00PM Gather and order food and drinks

7:00PM-7:30PM Rachael Lininger – Research Project Presentation

7:30PM-8:15PM Videoman – DefCon network overview

8:15 – 9:00PM Open forum and meeting.

9PM Wrap up.

Thanks!

-DC612

March 11th Meeting @ HackFactory!

Written by  on March 4, 2010

This month we are going to invite you, our great community members,  to bring in projects or things that your working on and show them off at DC612.  This will be a free form night with good food and conversation.  If you have something specific that you think would be fun to demo, please bring it!

The Hack Factory doesn’t have catered food, so I ask that you pre-register, and I’ll order from Pizza Luce again.  If you want beer, please bring some.  We will have soda on hand for sale.  Register at http://dc612-2010.eventbrite.com/.

-DC612

Hack Factory is located in the Seward neighborhood.

3119 East 26th ST

Minneapolis, MN 55418.

I think that the April meeting might move back to Elsie’s, depending on space and availability.

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WiFi Antenna building night! Febuary 11, 2010 DC612

Written by  on January 14, 2010

Let’s build some fun antennas! Things like the Wifi Cantenna, Bi-Quad sardine antenna, HDTV, etc.

I will supply the materials like, pop-rivets, soldering irons, N-female connectors, Copper wire.   You supply a clean tin can.  You can use soup cans, pinapple juice cans, anything that is made of metal, and has been washed out!  We will calcuate the placement based on the size of the can, and you can go to town making your own canteena.

Please register using Event Brite: http://wifi-building.eventbrite.com/

If you want to make a bi-quad anteena, which has about 10-12db of gain, you can bring a cookie tin or sardine can that is at least 62mm x 40mm.

If you want to make the HDTV antenna from Make, please plan on bringing your own supplies ( see http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/maker_workshop_dtv_antenna_steadyca.html).

The anteena connectors for the WiFi anteenas will be $5, and as can be purchased at the time of the event.  I will make sure that I bring at least one connector/person.  To use these, you will need a wireless card that has an external antenna connector, such as an MMCX or RP-SMA.  You will then need a pigtail that does N-Male to your card, EG: N-Male to MMCX, or N-Male to RP-SMA Male.

If people want to bring a DSS (small dish) satilite dish we can mount the cantenna on the end, and you can boostt your performace by quite a bit!

The hack factory is located at 3119 East 26th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55406, Enter using the side door by the large garage door.

Jan 14th 2010 Meeting

Written by  on January 8, 2010

Location: Elsies Bar and Bowling Alley (see http://dc612.org/index.php/meetings/)
Time: 6-9:15pm

Presentations:
Year of 2009 in review for PKI/SSL by Eric Lengvenis
Powershell – Windows Scripting by Tim Medin

If you plan on attending, if you can please RSVP via http://dc612meet.eventbrite.com/ this will ensure that we have adequate tables and chairs for the event.

Just a note, we will not have the large banquette room until 6:45-7pm, so we will want to order food and drinks in the dinning room/upper area, and then move into the banquette area around 7pm for the presentations.

We will also be drawing names for the winner of the Router Station Pro from Netgate.com- this was for the folks that registered and paid for the wardrive.

Agenda:
6pm-6:45pm Order Food and drink in the Bar area.
6:45-7:05pm Move into large banquette room in back.
7:15 PKI/SSL Presentation
~8:10 Draw a winner for the Router Station Pro from Netgate.com
8:15 PowerShell Demo/Presentation

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RSVP: http://dc612meet.eventbrite.com/
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November Meeting – USB Multiboot and Interceptor

Written by  on October 28, 2009

USB Multiboot and Interceptor tools will be demoed and people can create their own bootable USB drive at the next DC612.

CTF

We will have a sign up sheet at the meeting, and create a mailing list for the Red Team/CTF events.  We will also be looking for volunteers to teach a few clasess, such as NMAP, Nessus, Metasplot, etc…

Interceptor

Interceptor is a script and hardware to capture wired traffic and send it unmodified over a wireless connection.  The script was created by DigiNinja and it allows any OpenWRT device to be come a virtually transparent network sniffer.  This means once the device is set, I can watch the wired network traffic from outside the building, over the wireless.  I’ll give a quick intro, and demo on the Router Station Pro hardware and Interceptor tools.

USB Multiboot

Have you ever had a really large USB stick (8 or 16GB) however you can only use backtrack or Bart’s PE as the boot loader wants to take over?  Me too.  We will show you how you can have dozens of operating systems on one USB drive, and boot all of them with ease!  This topic idea came to us from Hak5, and everyone can participate!  So bring your thumb drives (4GB or bigger is best), make sure that you backup or wipe the drive before the meeting just in case, as we will have a computer with a plethora of bootable ISOs and OSes for people to tryout.

Registration

Please register for this months meeting so we know how much stuff to bring for the multi-boot creation.  This is not mandatory- but will allow us to plan appropriately.

Time: 6pm-9pm

Location: see Meetings page for more info.