January Meeting: Group51.org and ethical hacking

Date: January 7, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room B457

NOTE: MEETINGS WILL BE ON THURSDAY in room B457 UNTIL summer

Speaker: Jeff Green

http://group51.org/

Jeff Green from Ottawa will be introducing a new Ottawa based ethical hacking group that aims to provide educational resources for those entering a career in IT Security or simply want to have a better personal understanding. This presentation is targetted for a beginner to intermediate audience.

Some of the focal points:

• Introduction: What is Group51.org
• Our Playground: Live Demo
• Encrypted tunnels and our darknet
• Discuss our active projects (WPA decryption, Router Cracking & More)
• How we keep things legal.
• Linux @ Group51
• Opportunities and Volunteering Administrative Roles (For your Resume)

This will be followed by a discussion on ethical hacking.

Entire meeting; to allow for discussion.

Speaker: tbd

Possible Topics that need speakers.

• machine security setup, encryption, GPG configuration, etc
• security panel
• build your own linux server and website

tbd is a speaker we call upon when we don't yet have a real speaker for the meeting or when there are multiple speakers for a panel discussion or BOF.