<div class="gmail_quote">Apologies, for not posting to the mailing list, I got caught up with uni.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:14px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">One of the first talks in our Flash Talk Night line up will be Arron 'Finux' Finnon with</span><br style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:14px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:14px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The "Butthead" Evasion Technique - The dangers of character matching in security rules. </span><span style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:14px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This flash talk looks at the intrusion detection system SNORT and some of it's security signatures. The talk is light hearted in nature, however the under lying message is that careful consideration should be given when authoring rules. Sometimes the easiest thing to do is the most dangerous.</span>
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<span style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:14px">The second flash talk will be by our very own Gavin 'Jac0byterebel' Ewan with W</span><span style="line-height:14px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">hat Social Engineers know about our broken brain.</font></span><span style> </span><span style>This flash talk will take a whistlestop tour of some of the many stupid little errors that our brains make constantly. You will learn that your brain is not a super-computer, it is a quivering, useless blob that serves up the same old mistakes time and time again.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I will be presenting a flash talk on an introduction to password hashing and the common misuse of terminology around it.</div><div class="gmail_quote"> </div><div class="gmail_quote">
On 9 February 2012 11:42, Robert Ladyman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:it@file-away.co.uk">it@file-away.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
As the relevant officer doesn't seem inclined to post to the list, I shall do<br>
so:-<br>
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Tonight's talks are:-<br>
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Arron - Butthead Evasion Technique<br>
Ryan - Password Hashes<br>
Gavin - Social Engineering<br>
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These are flash-talks of less than 10 minutes or so.<br>
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The meeting starts at 18:30 (ish) in the Burgh Coffee House, Dundee.<br>
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Robert Ladyman<br>
The Software Society Limited<br>
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