We had a great turnout last week at the CPLUG and CreateSpace Holistic Security Talk.

Definition of Holistic : Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts.

We are still trying to get a digital copy of the notes, but the talk covered security holes and how when creating a system you need to focus on every part of the system. If it is week anywhere then the entire system is flawed.

The talk was given by Mark Smith, the Lead System Admin from CreateSpace.

After the talk Mark led us in a contest to crack a set of unsecured virtual machines. after three hours of attempts, the only person to finish was Mark Gius, our very own Treasurer.

Thanks to Mark Smith and everyone who came out. We are done with meetings for this year, we hope to see you all in the fall.

/Nat

UPDATE:  There were actually 3 persons to finish the tasks, Mark was only the first one.

Sorry this is so late, we will get the info up faster next time, just been busy with school and what not.

One of the things many people have been asking for is the ~/.screenrc file that victor uses. Victor learned about it from this Gentoo page. but the file should contain the following:

# use visual bell
vbell on
# replace ctrl-A by ctrl-O
escape ^Oo
# set a big scrolling buffer
defscrollback 5000
# Set the caption on the bottom line
caption always "%{= kw}%-w%{= BW}%n %t%{-}%+w %-= @%H - %LD %d %LM - %c"

I hope to get the other info up soon, also we need to finish getting the pages ready. It will happen this quarter, I promise.

Look forward to our SSH talk sometime in November.