[Nottingham] [Fwd: CovLUG technical meeting, Tuesday 20th October: Computer forensics]

[Martin]

Folks,

Looks like an interesting talk at a neighbouring group:

Cheers,
Martin


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Subject: CovLUG technical meeting, Tuesday 20th October: Computer forensics
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 06:59:58 +0100
From: Darren Austin <lists at afterdark.org.uk>


[ Please disseminate to any LUGs or groups that may be interested :) ]

Hi,
   The next CovLUG technical meeting is Tuesday 20th October 2009.

== Topic ==
Synopsis by our guest speaker, Adrian Shaw, a computer forensics expert
with the Police:
I will take a high level view of the use of Linux in computer forensics.
The presentation will be free-form allowing the audience to decide which
areas they want to know more about. I will talk about the challenges
faced by people working in the computer forensics field and the
potential for Linux Live disks to cope with those problems. I will also
be demonstrating a number of open source tools that are useful for not
only computer forensics but also data recovery. I will show people how
to recover lost partitions on Linux and Windows boxes as well as files
that have been deleted but still exist on the disk. I will also discuss
some strategies for dealing with hard disks that have mechanical
problems (strategies that don't involve freezing or boiling the hard
disk!). There will be a question and answer session at the end of the talk.

== Arrangements ==
Our technical evenings are split in to two parts:
* Firstly, we invite everyone along to a friendly, relaxed meal at Pizza 
Hut in Coventry City Centre starting at 7:00PM.  Everyone is welcome to 
join us, but you don't have to come along to the meal to attend the 
talk/demo later on.  You are welcome to attend even if you don't want to 
eat - several people come along and just have coffee or drinks and join 
in on the chatting.

   These meals are usually a great place to get advice and help with 
problems or to ask any questions you may have.  They are completely 
informal and a wide variety of subjects (not limited to Linux and Open 
Source) are discuseed.

* The second half of the evening is our talk/demo and takes place in a 
large private function room at a friendly bar/club in Coventry City 
Centre.
   The "formal" part of the evening begins at 9:00PM, and is expected to 
last an hour and a half (two hours if we run on a little bit!).  Please 
try to arrive 10 minutes early so that we can begin at 9:00PM.

   The venue has free onsite parking for people visiting the club, and 
does not mind people parking there whilst they join us for food (as long 
as you then return to the club later on, obviously!).  The club is 
approx 5 minutes walk from Pizza Hut.

== Venues ==
* Pizza Hut
     Address: Lower Precinct, Coventry City Centre.
     Map: 
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Lower+Precinct,+Coventry,+West+Midlands+CV1,+United+Kingdom&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.478806,35.200195&ie=UTF8&lr=lang_en&cd=1&geocode=FVuvHwMdhuXo_w&split=0&ll=52.4081,-1.515512&spn=0.006283,0.017188&z=16
     Arrangements: Look for a group of geeky looking people :)

* Technical Venue
     Address: The Royal Warwick Club, Tower Street, Coventry City Centre.
     Map: 
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=CV1+1JS&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.478806,35.200195&ie=UTF8&ll=52.412891,-1.508968&spn=0.006282,0.017188&z=16
     Streetview: 
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=CV1+1JS&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.478806,35.200195&ie=UTF8&ll=52.412564,-1.509354&spn=0.006283,0.017188&z=16&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=52.412454,-1.50943&panoid=0--YNAC28WVK5gIBkmJJQw&cbp=12,79.89,,0,5.85
     Arrangements: To find us in the club, use the buzzer at the door; 
go up the stairs to the bar; get yourself a drink (and me a Brown Split 
:P)    and ask the chaps at the bar to direct you to the Linux Users' Group.

Hope to see some new faces on Tuesday! :)

Darren.


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Martin Lomas
martin at ml1.co.uk
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