IndySec 6 WHERE

Ok just kidding!

I guess we've tried to see if IUPUI would lend us a room for IndySec 6 on the 18th, but haven't received a reply for some days now. I'm sure Sean and co. are pretty busy and that's completely understandable.

As it stands we can meet up at Panera Bread on 96th Street. Or someone can reply with a comment of a better location. Tomorrow at 8-9pm-ish I will make another post announcing the official location stay tuned.

Tux500

I thought this was an interesting article.

LINUX IS GOING TO THE INDIANAPOLIS 500

This is indeed a historic moment for Linux and the Linux Community. Bob Moore, A Linux Administrator, enthusiast and Advocate understands completely the need for Linux-At-Large to gain recognition in the market place. While the Boxset distros such as Xandros and RedHat are marketed by their respective corporate entities, the "One-Man" distros and the smaller projects are left to word of mouth fate. That works fine to a point, but has proven to fall short of getting the word of Linux "Out There".

Lobby4Linux has been a critic, and a sometimes harsh critic of the community in this area. For good reasons. Efforts to gather the talent for commercials, the pre and post production assets and the logistical headaches have all been gathered and done by L4L. Now all they are gathering is dust. It seems the "let-the-other-guy-do-it mentality has won out within the community and so all the efforts thus far have sat in the corner, waiting for someone to dust them off and put them to work.

http://tux500.com/geeklog/article.php?story=20070410075726379

IndySec 6

We have a tentative date for IndySec 7, minus 1 ---- April 18th @ 7:00pm

As for topics, I will be speaking a little on BackTrack 2.0 (and their online training) and I believe Chad and Landon will be sharing stories from ShmooCon... maybe even some gibber gabber about Vista.

More information to come.

- Steve

8th Annual CERIAS Information Security Symposium

Introduction from Professor Eugene Spafford

The 8th CERIAS Symposium will be held March 20 & 21, 2007. In the 8 years we have been hosting this event, many aspects of information security and privacy have changed dramatically. Yet, our computer systems are still under attack, bad software continues to be marketed, and "the bad guys" are seldom apprehended.

How have things changed in 8 years? What has gotten better? Where do we need to focus the majority of our efforts? And what do we expect the world of IT to be like in another 8 years?

Join us as we reflect on the current state of information security, as well as the evolution and progress of CERIAS. With panels on various aspects of information security, including infosec education, commercial vendors, forensics, and privacy and trust, we will delve into the current state of the field and explore how it will evolve in light of recent events.

Speakers will include Major General Dale W. Meyerrose, USAF (Ret.), the CIO of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Yalkin Demirkaya, President of Cyber Diligence, Inc., and Dr. Dan Geer of Verdasys, the former president of USENIX and CTO of @Stake.

Anyone interested in car pooling or sharing a hotel room to this event?

Idea's for IndySec 6?

It is that time of the month again. I wanted to start a thread and see if anybody had any idea's for IndySec 6. Feel free to post here or send something out on the email list.

After Landon's meetup @ Buca's last month, I am sure we will have a few new people join us this time around.

To pass time, I will leave you with a thrilling video recorded in the early 90's about the internet.