TayLUG Meetings
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Next Meeting:To Be Announced
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Meeting:1st December 2011
A Salesman's Guide to Social Engineering by Gavin Ewan
- Parallels between sales processes and Social Engineering
- Psychology models applied to sales can also be applied to Social Engineering
- Techniques used in information on buyers and handling sales objections can be used in a Social Engineering attack
- Defence against these Social Engineering attack vectors
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Meeting:17th November 2011
PGP Encryption by Stuart Anderson
- The use of PGP and how it works.
- What is a key signing party?
- Web of Trust v SMIME certificate authorities.
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Meeting:3rd November 2011
Reassemble or GTFO! - IDS Evasion Strategies by Arron Finnon
- Packet Inspection
- Reassembly
- Getting The Fragments Out (GTFO)
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Meeting:20th October 2011
Introduction to Django Web Framework by James Carter
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Meeting:6th October 2011
The Open Society AGM
- Election of Office Bearers
- Membership subscription dues
Installing Ubuntu on a USB stick using Windows by Ryan Ward
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Event:17th September 2011
Software Freedom Day is celebrated every year on a Saturday in September where Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiasts give talks and demonstrations to the general public on what free software is about. This year there will be talks and demonstrations explaining about free software. There will also be people there to help out the public on any questions they want to ask.
Demonstrations
| Ubuntu Studio by Paul Lancaster |
| Arduino by Robert McWilliam |
| OLPC's |
| Open Source Games Rig |
Talks
| Introduction - 10am | |
| What is Free and Open Software? by Ryan Ward | |
| Cinema | Gallery |
| On Expectations,Requirements and Survival when Starting with Linux by Markus Tauber | Packets,Freedom,Networks & Neutrality by Rorie Hood |
| What is Android? by Kris Findlay | WINE and Gaming: A Novice's Guide by Gavin Ewan |
| Lunch - 1pm | |
| Free Software for Indie Games Development by Hazel McKendrick | |
| Cinema | Gallery |
| Open Source and Broadcasting by Kenny Coyle | Blender by Gary Whitton |
| Introduction to PKI by Robert Ladyman | Geo-Caching by Scott Cowie |
| UPnP by Arron Finnon | |
| Conclusion - 5pm | |
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Meeting:11th August 2011
A short talk on "How to give short talks" by Gary Short
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Meeting:28th July 2011
Basic introduction to the game engine of Blender by Garry Whitton
- Live demos
- Game engine
- Animation
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Meeting:14th July 2011
Minimalistic Window Managers by James Carter
- DWM
- qTile
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Meeting:30th June 2011
50 days of Lulz by Arron Finnon
- The activities of the hacker group LulzSecurity.com over a period of fifty days
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Meeting:16th June 2011
Flash Talks
- Linux File Systems by Ryan Ward
- There ain't no such thing as the internet by Robert Ladyman
- Algorithms and Asymptotes by Gary Short
- DIY touchscreens by Roddy Maese
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Meeting:19th May 2011
The Abertay Open Society AGM
- Election of the Open Society Officers
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Meeting:5th May 2011
Introduction to SSH (Secure Shell) by Kris Findlay
- Control of remote machines
- Securely transfers files
- Securing internet using wifi hotspots
- Securely mounting directories on remote servers as a file system on local desktops
- Creating tunnels via the internet
- Forwarding ports from remote machines to local hosts
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Meeting:7th April 2011
Running a Wireless ISP by Robert Ladyman
- Defining TLD's, NTU & other Technical Terms
- Technical Staff & Customer Interactions
- Case scenario of 3rd Party Intrusion of the Wireless Network Infrastructure
- Traffic Management of Customers
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Meeting:24th March 2011
Geocaching by Scott Howie
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Meeting:10th March 2011
Flash Talks
- Rooting Android by Nicholas Walker
- Universally Plugin and Play (UPnP) by Arron Finnon
- Protection of the Apache web server against Denial of Service attacks by Gordon Dunlop
- Community radio and open source by Kevin Coyle
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Meeting:23rd February 2011
Net Neutrality by Rorie Hood
- ISP's prioritization of internet traffic
- ISP's purposely slowing P2P internet traffic
- ISP's using deep-packet inspection to discriminate against internet traffic such as P2P, FTP & 0n-line games
- Should network neutrality be enforced?
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Meeting:27th January 2011
LibVLC by Tom Paynter
- LibVLC contains the library code for VLC (VideoLAN Project), an open source cross-platform multimedia framework, player and server
- Tom will demonstrate building LibVLC into a custom c++ program
- The build will be a step by step guide on Fedora, but should also apply for other operating systems
- He will bring along working source code for people to try for themselves
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Meeting:16th December 2010
University of Abertay Linux Society Annual General Meeting
- Election of Abertay Linux Society Officials
- Abertay Linux Society General Business, Financial Statement
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Meeting:21st October 2010
Upsploit by Thomas MacKenzie
"Thomas MacKenzie, who is part of the DVMA/Randomstorm development team, talks about his new vulnerability disclosure project called Upsploit".
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Event:18th September 2010
Software Freedom Day 2010
Talks:
- Nicholas Walker : What is Free Software and why is it important?
- Christopher Wyllie : Open Source Software for students.
- Kris Findlay : Android and Embedded Linux.
- James Carter : Linux development using mono, c# & .net
- Arron Finnon : Breaking SSL
- Axel Bonneman : Open Street Map.
Demonstrations:
- Paul Lancaster : Making music with Ubuntu Studio.
- Gordon Dunlop : Virtual Machines.
- Huntly Cameron : Ubuntu for beginners.
- Kris Findlay : Joggler & OPLC.
- Nicholas Walker : Netbooks.
- Robert McWilliam : Arduinos running free software
- Robert Ladyman : Dual booting Win 7 & Ubuntu
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Meeting:6th May 2010
Database Design, Implementation & Testing: A case study using the PostgreSQL Database by Gordon Dunlop
- Entity relationships
- Normalisation
- Table construction
- SQL DML
- Data integrity & testing of constraints
- Scripts
- Queries
- Views
- Triggers
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Meeting:22nd April 2010
Flash Talks - Hacking Tricks for Linux Geeks
- ARP Vulnerabilities by Daniel Hutchinson
- Format String exploitation techniques by Rorie Hood
- Finux's Facebook API (ab)use for Information Gathering by Arron Finnon
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Meeting:8th April 2010
Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) by Thomas MacKenzie
"Thomas MacKenzie is involved with the development of Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) and is an open source PHP/MySQL web application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goals are to be an aid for security professionals to test their skills and tools in a legal environment, help web developers better understand the processes of securing web applications and aid teachers/students to teach/learn web application security in a class room environment. DVWA has now been acquired by RandomStorm Ltd."
- Thomas MacKenzie's background
- Looking at DVWA
- Examining specific web application vulnerabilities i.e. SQL injection and Cross Site Scripting, how they work and how they can be prevented.
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Meeting:25th March 2010
Blender by Gary Whitton
- Basic logical environment
- Smoke effect setup - sensor, controller & actuator
- Looped textures
- Physics demo
- Scripts
- Video backgrounds
- Blender internet demos
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Meeting:11th March 2010
Smart Card Aware Application Development by Axel Bornemann
- Comparison of smart cards API's CT-API & PC/SC
- Overview of architecture and specification
- How to setup a Linux development environment and application debugging
- An overview on the smart card reader
- A short introduction to the different smart cart security classes
- An overview with significant reader issues
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Meeting:25th February 2010
Borderless Networks:There Goes the Neighbourhood by Robert Ladyman
- What your firewall doesn't protect you against
- What borderless networks are (and what they are not - watch out for the marketing hype)
- Hosts and adaptors
- The difference between a fortress and a hotel
- How to pronounce "deperimeterisation" correctly
- The implications of IPV6
- Pesky printers and horrendous hand-helds
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Meeting:11th February 2010
Defeating SSL by Arron Finnon
- Penetrating corporate networks
- SSL VPN's can be vulnerable to a number of attacks
- Tools and techniques that can make defeating SSL/TLS simple
- Research and tools of Moxie Marlinspike
- Attack vectors and results
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Meeting:28th January 2010
Arch Linux by Nicholas Walker
- Overview of Arch Linux principles
- Rolling release of Arch Linux
- Arch Linux installation
- Arch Linux configuration
- Arch Linux core and community packages
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Meeting:14th January 2010
Mediawiki by Gordon Dunlop
- Mediawiki core installation in Ubuntu & Fedora
- MySQL, PHP & Apache
- Mediawiki web installation via browser
- Skins
- LocalSettings.php
- Extensions
- Wiki syntax
