[Gllug] REMINDER November 10th GLLUG meeting - update!

[Dan Kolb]

Unfortunately, one of our speakers has had to pull out at the last minute, due
to a family matter. This does mean that we have a slot free. If anyone fancies
giving a last-minute talk, then please come along to the University around 1.15
- there will be people setting up the projector around that time: give one of
them a shout.

The remaining details are the same, and follow:

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 05:03:55PM +0000, Frank Scott wrote:
> Reminder of Dan's post :-
> 
> There will be a Gllug meeting on Saturday 10th November, at the New
> Cavendish
> Street campus of Westminster University, with the first speaker starting
> at
> 1.30pm.
> 
> This venue is under the shadow of the BT Tower; the nearest tube
> stations are
> Great Portland Street, Warren Street, and Goodge Street. You will find a
> map at
> http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-7679 or at http://shorterlink.org/1882
> 
> You will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the
> building.
> 
> We've got three speakers lined up:
> 
> * Armijn Hemel - UPnP (in)Security.
> 
> Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is becoming an omnipresent technology and
> support for it is being added to more and more routers, gateways and DSL
> modems. Chat clients (MSN Messenger), networked games and gaming
> networks
> (X-Box Live and others) depend on UPnP to work correctly.  Up until now,
> there
> haven't been any real problems with UPnP, except for the occasional
> buffer
> overflow. UPnP seems to be working just fine. But it's not! The protocol
> is
> unclear and flawed by design and many implementations have security
> holes you
> can drive a truck through, leaving your network open to a variety of
> interesting attacks.
> 
> * Rich Jones - hacking a FORTH Compiler on public transport
> 
> There should, again, be time to fit in a few lightning talks after the
> last
> speaker, should anyone wish to talk about a favourite topic in 10
> minutes or
> less.
> 
> As usual, the meeting will adjourn to a local pub.

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