[Gllug] ANNOUNCE: Gllug meeting, 10th November, Westminster University

[Dan Kolb]

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.

* Karanbir Singh - automated systems provisioning with Cobbler and CentOS. A
brief intro to cobbler itself and then a live demo on setting up real machines
and Xen + VMware virtual machines.

Cobbler is a Linux boot server that allows for rapid setup of network
installation environments. With a simple series of commands, network installs
can be configured for PXE, reinstallations, and virtualized installs using Xen
or KVM. Cobbler uses a helper program called 'Koan' (which interacts with
Cobbler) for reinstallation and virtualization support.

* 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.

Dan
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