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Chris Wilson brings us some Snort goodness with this 37 minute tutorial on how to build a snort sensor from scratch using CentOS.

I hope this is of use to everyone, it is very very well done!

 

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Today marks 7 years ago that we lost so many fellow americans in the horrific attacks which unfolded that day.  Think about them, and also think about our troops.  Without their sacrifice we would not be able to do things like drink beers and talk about security on Skype every couple of weeks.

To those who serve us, we salute you.

We will be steaming Ep 10 live tonight at around 7:30PM EST.  Feed urls will either be ChrisAM’s, mubix’s, or both.

Join us as well on IRC at irc.freenode.net #securabit

Last night we did a spontaneous hour long interview with the guys from HacDC, a Hackerspaces group.

Hosts:
Rob Fuller - Mubix

Chris Mills - ChrisAM

Chris Gerling - Hak5Chris

Guests:

Nick Farr - Treasurer HacDC
Mitch Altman - NoiseBridge San Francisco, Hackerspace
Bryce - HacDC

HacDC and Hackerspaces.

What is a Hackerspace?: Physical space where hackers make things, in
person place to do things rather in addition to online.  People can
work on their own projects and collaborate with others.

Mitch has been working on Brain machines.

Tips on how to start a hackerspace:

- Visit a hackerspace

- Document on Hackerspace design patterns (PDF).

- Go to Visit: Hackerspaces.org and email questions about getting started to info@hacdc.org

- Last Hope Talk: Building Hacker Spaces Everywhere: Your Excuses are Invalid - Nick Farr and Friends (MP3).

If I am not a member, can I go: Yes!

Some hackerspaces mentioned:

NY Resistor (New York City)
C-base (Berlin Germany)
The Hacktory (Philadelphia)

Mitch working on SF Space, NoiseBridge
Join the NoiseBridge email list

Intersting Hackerspace projects:

Blinkenlights -

Project Blinkenlights was a light installation in the Haus des Lehrers
building at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin that transformed the building
front into a giant low-resolution monochrome computer screen.

tmplab - Paris, France Hackerspace (French)

Columbia heights Wireless -

The Columbia Heights Wireless Project aims to provide wireless access to
the Internet to HacDC’s neighbors in Columbia Heights. This project, in
three phases, will help test different technologies and methods for
providing this access as well as building local neighborhood IT
infrastructure.

 

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A new season of Hak5 just began with a bang with Securabit’s own Mubix showing off the open source forensics and intelligence gathering tool Maltego.  Look for future shows featuring both Mubix and Chris Gerling.