May 9th Meeting 6pm @ Elsies

For the May DC612 meeting, Paul Dokas will be presenting on the new Dragon Research Group (DRG) pod distro. The Dragon Research Group (DRG) is a volunteer group of security researchers that collect and freely distribute intelligence regarding malicious behavior seen online.  One of the key platforms used to collect and analyze this data is the DRG pod which is a passive sensor built using NanoBSD (a slimmed down version of FreeBSD).  This talk will cover the design goals, system layout, build system and future directions for the pods.

Bio: Paul Dokas is an IT security professional with 20+ years of experience in the IT industry as an IT security architect and analyst, programmer, and system administrator.  Currently working in the Twin Cities as an senior IT security analyst he is expanding his passion for intrusion detection, data analysis and incident response.  In off hours, he volunteers with the DRG and is building a network intrusion sensor and analysis framework (soon to be released as open source).

Agenda:

6:00PM-6:30PM – Get in, get drinks and food ordered

6:30PM-???? – Paul Dokas

Elsie’s Restaurant Bar and Bowling
729 MarshallStreet N.E.,
Minneapolis, MN 55413

No April DC612 Meeting

We are not going to have an April DC612 meeting as we didn’t receive any volunteers to present on a topic this month. If you have a topic you would like to present on at a future DC612 or are working on a project that you would like to solicit some feedback on, please email us at info – at – dc612.org.

Also, don’t forget about the Minne-Faire happening THIS WEEKEND at The Hack Factory! More info can be found here: http://minnefaire.org/

Thanks

-DC612

DEF CON 20 Badge Hacking

We are doing DEF CON 20 badge hacking at The Hack Factory tonight! Anyone is welcome to come by and hang out, so far all of the preregistration badges have been taken! Were going to solder on the VGA and PS/2 connectors, and post some fun info on what we did after the event!

See you tonight, after 6pm.

-David

No February Meeting

We are not going to have a February meeting. Stay home, stay warm, and enjoy Valentines Day. We will see you in March for the badge hacking night (details below):

Let’s hack some DEF CON XX badges!

DC612 is holding a badge hacking workshop!  Wanna have fun and setup a commodore 64 emulator on your Defcon XX badge!  Now is the time!  DEF CON donated 30 extra badges (CDs and Programs too!).  Their only request was that we post (Blog, Social Media, Office Xerox, etc) about your project or board when we complete it.

We are asking $5-$10, but you can always add more, as the donation goes directly to the Hack Factory.  Each ticket comes with a badge.  You will need to pay cash for the badge when you arrive, as we get chraged $1 for each ticket we sell via eventbrite. We’ve also setup individual badge tickets.  So say you wanted a Human badge- design #1, well you can use that as your ticket and we will make sure you get that badge.

These were donated by DEF CON for us to play with.  To order more and check out the designs, visit: http://hackerstickers.com/product/hardware-dc20-humanbadge/

– DC612

Save the date – DC612 Day – March 9th 2013

Thank you to all who responded to our survey! It appears that there is sufficient interest for a one day hands-on event. We are planning on holding the event on March 9th, 2013. Based on the survey results, we are going to cover challenge walk-through, vulnerability scanning, and exploitation during this one day hands-on learning event. More details and registration will be available in the upcoming weeks. Below are the results of two of the questions asked on the survey: