Title: ovSAGE Meeting
Location: The Pythian Group, St. Laurent Mall, Ottawa
Link out: Click here
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: Click here
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

Well, not so much fun…

Tuesday last week, I guess there was a power bump or some such event and my main drive on my mac decided to take a nose dive. I should have expected this, as the power is not exactly the most stable in this neck of the woods. I do have backups, but I was lazy the past 2 months and didn’t do a backup. Time machine isn’t quite suitable (no real control) and I haven’t bothered anything beyond a full dump at intervals and that takes time.

Well, registration for the site doesn’t automatically give you the ability to create articles, just to comment. As I didn’t have to register, I didn’t notice. I have upgraded access for the current members and if it doesn’t work, leave a comment for me.