[GLLUG] Meeting Minutes, January 20, 2005

[Charles Ulrich]

Vital Statistics
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Approximately 9 people attended the meeting which started at 6:00PM and 
ended at about 8:00PM.

Presentation
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Nessus Vulnerability Presentation
by Mark Lachniet

Despite the low turnout, last night's presentation was one of the best 
we've had so far. Those who couldn't make it really missed out. Mark 
Lachniet discussed the art of uncovering network vulnerabilities and 
provided an excellent demonstration of the power Nessus vulnerability 
scanner.

Some relevent links:
Nessus: http://www.nessus.org
Knoppix STD (Security Tools Distribution): http://www.knoppix-std.org
Phlak (Professional Hacker's Linux Assault Kit): http://www.phlak.org

General Banter
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There was some talk of the Zaurus and other PDAs and small computers.

Antivirus software and viruses written for Linux (consensus: there are 
virtually none in the wild despite Linux's rapid growth)

Social engineering, user insecurity (some 60% of people polled on the 
street gave up their work passwords for a piece of chocolate).

IT Security Certifications:
- CISSP (study guide books are good, even if you don't plan on taking 
the certs): 
- CISA
- HPPA

There was pizza.

Next Week's Meeting
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January 27, 2005 6:00PM @ Atmosphere Annealing, Inc.

LPI Certification Training

Want to learn about Linux but aren't sure where to start? Or would you 
like to bone up on your Linux mastery so you can ace the Linux 
Professional Institute certification exam? The GLLUG LPI certification 
training sessions may be the answer. While we don't provide the exam 
itself, we do present material straight out of IBM's DeveloperWorks LPI 
study guides so you will have all of the knowledge you'll need to run 
your own Linux machines in confidence and maybe even pass the LPI exam 
if you choose to take it. We'll have experienced LUG members there to 
teach the material and answer your questions in way too much detail and 
to top it off, these sessions are FREE.

Note that we're still looking for people to help out with the LPI 
presentations, most of them are not that hard if you have even a 
modicum of Linux experience. You don't have to prepare anything, we 
teach straight from LPI study guies. If interested, contact Jeff 
(jeff at idealso.com), Curt (asenchi at asenchi.com), or myself.

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