Meetings
Meeting #9 feedback: Attacks and Defences
Topic: Attacks and Defences Speaker: Marco Slaviero Date: 1 February 2010 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building. Slides: attacks_and.pdf (1.2 MB) [Sorry for the manky quality of this PDF export -Simeon] attacks_and.ppt (4.0 MB) attacks_and.ppt.sig (72 B) Although this talk was entitled Attacks and Defenses, it [...]
New dates and venues for 2010
Here is a list of new dates and venues for TLUG meetings in 2010. I’ve also updated the Google calendar. We’ll announce each talk with speaker and topic as we go along.
Meeting #9 announcement: State of the security world
Topic: State of the security worldAttacks and Defences Speaker: Marco Slaviero Date: 1 February 2010 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building. Update: PLEASE NOTE THE VENUE HAS CHANGED A SECOND TIME For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.
Meeting #8 feedback: Smashing the stats for fun and profit
Topic: Smashing the stats for fun and profit Speaker: Shaun Dewberry Date: 7 December 2009 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 1-18 in the Economics and Management Science building Slides: shaun_tlug_presentation.pdf (1.8 MB) Audio recording: tlug-talk-8-shaun-smashing-the-stats-for-fun-and-profit.ogg (5.2 MB) Feedback: Shaun presented his work on gaming a popular South African blog aggregator [...]
Meeting #8 announcement: Smashing the stats for fun and profit
Topic: Smashing the stats for fun and profit Speaker: Shaun Dewberry Date: 7 December 2009 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 1-18 in the Economics and Management Science building (building 54 on this map: http://web.up.ac.za/interactivemaps/mapeng/maincampus.htm).
Meeting #7 feedback: Botnets
Topic: Botnets Speaker: Beau Grobler Date: 2 November 2009 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Feedback: Beau presented his talk to ~22 guests and included a case study of an actual botnet related to an ongoing investigation. For this reason, (as Jaco points out) there won’t be any audio or slides published, sorry. I guess the point [...]
Meeting #7 tonight: Botnets (topic changed)
Hi All Our topic for tonight has changed, Beau will be talking about botnets. See you all there! Regards, Simeon. Topic: Botnets Speaker: Beau Grobler Date: 2 November 2009 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 1-18 in the Economics and Management Science building (building 54 on this map: http://web.up.ac.za/interactivemaps/mapeng/maincampus.htm).
What TLUG is (and isn’t)
TLUG is an informal and diverse group of people with a common interest in Linux, UNIX, Open Source, electronics, networking and any other interesting and vaguely related (geek|hack)ery. One evening each month we get together at a venue on the University of Pretoria campus, and get someone to present a talk on ${topic_of_their_choice}. Afterwards we [...]
Meeting #7 announcement (for November): Open Source at the SAPS Cyber Crime Unit
Topic: Use of Open Source Software at the SAPS Cyber Crime Unit Speaker: Beau Grobler Date: 2 November 2009 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 1-18 in the Economics and Management Science building (building 54 on this map: http://web.up.ac.za/interactivemaps/mapeng/maincampus.htm). IMPORTANT: There will be NO meeting on 5 October 2009
Meeting #6 feedback: Getting started with Django: from installation to, first application
Topic: Getting started with Django: from installation to, first application Speaker: Carl Sandrock Date: 7 September 2009 Feedback: Carl’s provided an excellent introduction to rapid web app development with Django, explaining the concepts, and demonstrated the real thing, live, by writing a simple application. Thanks Carl, and all attendees. Due to technical problems, no audio [...]