Hey everyone! Wanted to let you all know that we will be having a Hackerdashery this Friday (4/27) @6pm until we decide to call it quits (my key card access dies at 2am). This is a time you can come in, hangout, work in projects, ask questions, whatever you want! We’ll be in our usual meeting spot: the NSSA Projects Lab.

Tomorrow evening (Wednesday @6) we’ll be meeting as usual. We’ll be going over some different shell tips you can use. This isn’t really a shell scripting talk, but nifty things you can do that maybe you didn’t know about. We’ll also cover some reverse shell techniques that may be useful if you’re planning to take part in either of the CTF events happening this weekend. On top of all that, Lucas and I can share some of our experiences from the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition we took part in this past weekend if anyone is interested!

Last but not least, I’ve been blabbing about elections for next year’s eboard for a few weeks now. These will be worked out within the next week. We’ll be doing an online poll that will require you to be logged in via your RIT gmail account. If you’re interested in helping out the club next year let me know! We’ll need a President, VP, Secretary, and Treasurer. Expect an email with more details to come!

So after last week’s last minute change of plans, we will be actually doing the Linux networking talk tonight! Dan will be giving us the skinny and the fat on how linux handles networking configs on the inside! Join us tonight at 6:00 in the NSSA Projects Lab (70-2130)!

Also, another reminder that we are looking for e-board members for next year! If you are interested in stepping up to help run RITlug find Kevin, Dan, Lucas, or my self and let us know!

-Jeremy

Hello Luggers!
Tonight we’ll be continuing with our Intro to Linux series, diving into Linux networking. We’ll go over the basics of just connecting a system to the network as well as getting into some more in-depth connection tracking techniques and their implications for securing a system.

Also, if anyone took part in ISTS this past weekend and wants to share some of the issues or nifty tricks they came across we’ll definitely spend some time talking about all that!

Finally, we’re coming close to the end of the year! There’s only 6 weeks left! This means we’re going to need people for E-board next year! We’ll start talking about the details of that tonight and what all it entails. If you’re at all interested in helping run RITLUG next year get in contact with me or any of the other e-board members.

As usual, we’ll be meeting tonight at 6:00pm in the NSSA Projects Lab (GOL-2130)

See you there!
Jeremy

Hey everyone! I hope you’ll come out tonight for our first in a new series of Intro To Linux Talks. In this series we’ll be guiding people away from the GUI and showing them how to maneuver their system via the command line to provide a foundation diving into System Administration and Security. It looks like we’ll be sticking with the Wednesday night, 6-7:30 time slot in the Projects Lab this quarter (GOL-2130). We realize it doesn’t work for all of you, but moving to any other night didn’t seem to work any better. Hope to see you there!

-Jeremy

Who’s got two thumbs and forgot to make a post until the last minute? *This Guy*

At tonight’s meeting I’ll be giving a brief talk on packet crafting with Scapy, a python library which makes network handling super easy. I’ll also demonstrate a simple network attack to hijack and man-in-the-middle a Voice Over IP (VOIP) call using a tool I wrote using Scapy.

Hope to see you there! NSSA Projects Lab (GOL-2130) @ 6:00PM

-Jeremy

Tonight Dan and Kevin will be tag-teaming talks on lvm and dm-crypt. LVM, or Logical Volume Manager is a robust volume manager (think harddisks and partitions) with a lot of nifty features. DM-Crypt is a full disk encryption layer which can either ride above or below LVM, which method is best is a subject of vigorous debate (ask Dan and Kevin about that!).

We’ll be meeting tonight (Monday) as usual at 7:00pm in the VOIP lab 70-2330.

At tonight’s meeting I will be giving an introduction to creating custom installations using SuseStudio. If you haven’t heard of SuseStudio before it’s a really slick service provided by Novell for creating customized Suse Linux installs that can be exported as several different types of VMs, liveCDs, and installation media. It’s a great tool for creating quick appliances or test boxes.

As usual, the meeting will be in the NSSA Voip Lab (70-2330) at 7:00PM

Hope to see you there!

Hey Everyone!
For the past two meetings we’ve been working on getting our servers ready to be racked. XEN has been installed on three of them and we’ve started messing around with VMs.

For tonight’s meeting we’ll be taking a break from the servers and Dan will be giving a presentation on Linux authentication. Specifically he’ll be talking about PAM, Puggable Authentication Module, which is an extensible way to support many different forms of authentication on linux systems. Dan will also be covering NSS, Name Service Switch, and how it interacts with PAM.

The meeting is at the normal time and place: 7:00PM in 70-2330

Hope to see you there!
Jeremy