Thursday, February 10th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

Hello Hackers!

This month we are joined by Eric, a hacker who stopped playing guitar for 25 years, and in that time learned a bit about computers and programming.  Picking the guitar back up he ended up marrying the two and sharing his work with friends in a way that he controls the info being shared outside the walls of our sharing programs. From The Diary of a Madman:

Dear Diary.

This pandemic I relearned to play the guitar & share it on a low budget without giving my soul to a platform.  Let me tell you some more about the process and project.

~eric

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.

— TactiFail

Thursday, January 13th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

Hello Hackers, and happy 2022!

Hopefully everyone is staying safe, healthy, warm, and curious.

This month we are joined by Michael Goetzman, a long-time hacker with a hobby running CypherCon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin:

Like Hacking, Ciphers, and Community engagement? Discover the origin stories and secrets of Wisconsin’s largest security conference CypherCon. We’ll dive into fascinating discussions about our midwestern community building innovative projects. Get a taste for what is to come with ‘never before seen’ retro simulated puzzle operating systems “Cypher Forest”, Virtual Reality, and more. We’ll end with a discussion on where we think the midwest hacker community is going in the next decade.

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.

— TactiFail

Thursday, December 9th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

Hello Hackers!

Apologies for the late post, but we are excited to be joined by Kyler Middleton for this last meeting of the year:

Come learn how a large healthcare company converted their static CI/CD builders from static VMs to ephemeral docker builders that are deployed via terraform into both Azure and AWS.

Kyler Middleton (she/they) has been building and repairing computers since she found out the farmers around her childhood ranch would trade brownies for computer support. She is self-taught, and has worked throughout most of the IT spectrum, from building a call center for 200+ agents, managing networks and security for ~100 vet clinics, to securing health care data in the cloud. Middleton is a PluralSight author, and owns her own consulting firm, helping secure and connect American manufacturing. She is a strong advocate for making DevOps and security approachable. She works at IAM Pulse to help engineers with cloud IAM issues, and to help shape the industry around cloud security.

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

— TactiFail

Thursday, September 9th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

Hello Hackers!

Hopefully everyone is recovered from DefCon last month, or just enjoyed some downtime. Either way, we are back to our regularly-scheduled hackery!

This month we are joined by Caleb Shingledecker, who is the co-founder and lead developer at the startup Becoming Machinic:

Caleb Shingledecker will provide an overview of constraints facing multi-cloud infrastructure in organizations, and outline a utility he’s been developing that utilizes Wireguard to orchestrate connections between nodes, regardless of locale or cloud vendor.

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

— TactiFail

Thursday, July 8th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

Hello hackers!

This month we are happy to have Jacen Kohler join us to speak a bit on physical ID forgery:

A common method of gaining legitimacy on social engineering is the “Appeal to Authority” technique. This involves preforming OSINT on your target and referencing a figure of authority. If you have a fake employee ID, you can take a step closer to becoming the authority. A forged badge can add a visual layer to your story helping target employees become more likely to see you as a legitimate entity. In this talk, I will be showing how to create simple forged IDs, share some tips that helped me in previous engagements, and give an overview of times when having a fake badge helped me achieve my goals set forth by the client.

Jacen R Kohler has been working in cyber security and information security for the last 6 years. He received his degree in Computer Engineering from the University of North Texas in Computer Engineering. His career in security consulting has taken him through many industries including finance, transportation, energy, and government.

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

— TactiFail