This coming Thursday, on Nov 1st, from 7pm til 9pm,
at BTC, in room D5, will be our regular meeting of BLUG.
This month we’ll have two presentations =8’0
As well as, our regular agenda of Q&A, Linux news, etc.
See the presentation descriptions below:
1) The IS team at Northwest Indian College
(our own Bob Potter and Carl Symons) will present on:
Meraki and wireless mesh networking
Meraki got its start in 2003 providing Internet access around MIT as
an experimental network called “Roofnet”. Currently, Meraki wireless
equipment and the associated open source software are used in more
than 25 countries around the world. Meraki has top venture funding;
its use has spread largely by word of mouth into dense urban areas, as
well as villages in India and Africa. Meraki’s mission is to bring
affordable Internet access to the next billion people.
The IS team at Northwest Indian College has installed a small Meraki
network. Their presentation will feature tiny equipment, slick
web-based management interface and big plans.
2) John Blanford will present on:
Countering SSH Brute Force Attacks with DenyHosts
SSH brute force break in attempts are the digital equivalent of trying
to break into houses by trying every door knob until finding one that is
unlocked. They try various user and password combinations looking for
easy to guess passwords.
John will talk about this annoying type of attack, show an attack script
harvested from a cracked system, and discuss one way of countering this
type of attack, a log monitoring script called DenyHosts
(http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/)