We had an average turnout at the
OCUUG meeting
on Wednesday night. It was a good time and for those who do not know,
it’s more of a social group than a technology group. Having said that,
tech topics do come up. For those who were, Dru just launched her latest
book: The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD. This one is published under the
Apress banner.
There were copies for all at the meeting and DVDs to go with it.Of
course, it’s not completely free, We are supposed to blog about it
(notice I’m doing so now) and write a book review. I’m considering
writing my BSDA at BSDCan 2010, so hopefully this will fill n the blanks
for me. Either way, it’s an excuse to read a book, work through a new
flavor of OS and take a certification exam.
Very slowly.
I finally got around to importing the userids from the old system
tonight (last night?), but the old passwords will not work, as the
storage methods are different. It would be interesting if I had spent
time trying to crack them and then install them, but it’s not worth the
effort.
You can get a password if you had a prior ID by clicking on the forgot
password link. The system will send you an email with a link and you
have to click the link, at which time it will send you a password.
Title: ovSAGE Meeting
Location: The Pythian Group, St. Laurent Mall, Ottawa
Link out:
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Description: This is the March meeting for Ottawa Valley SAGE.
This month we will be continuing the setup and install of a virtualized
system to act as a mail, web, pop, imap, webmail server.
We will also be looking at kickstart, PXE boot for installation and
once we have finished all of this, puppet and nagios for configuration
management and monitoring
There will be some time at the beginning for any new items and we will
be showing another ignite video at the end.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-18
End Time: 21:30
Something I had noticed a couple of posts ago was bothering me today and
I decided to search out the problem and see if there was a fix for it.
The problem being the tags for a post were no longer working. I had used
them for the first post, but when I decided to use them a couple of
posts ago, no luck. I ignored it as something to look at later and when
I posted my HDD woes, the tags were still broken. I tried again today
and still broken…
Title: Ottawa Area Security Klatch
Location: Microsoft Canada, 100-152 Queen St., Ottawa, ON, Canada
Link out:
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Description: Talk #1: DNS Security: The Seven Deadliest Sins
Speaker: Derrick Webber
A vulnerable DNS allows attackers to compromise everything else in the
organization: your web sites, servers, SSL, VPNs, even desktops. This
short presentation covers the very worst mistakes in the design and
operation of the Domain Name Service and how to fix them.
Talk #2: Log-based Intrusion Detection (LIDS) using OSSEC+Splunk