PLUG's Upcoming Events

PLUG meeting on Jul 11th

Published: 08 July 2019

We'll have 2 presenters this month with a distribution theme.

Update: The speaker for the Red Hat talk has changed from Artemii Kropachev to John DeFrees.  Also LI9, the company behind the Red Hat talk will be providing pizza for the meeting.

John DeFrees: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta 1 Overview

Description:
Learn about the first version release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in over four years. The latest release features unprecedented ease of deployment, ease of migration, and ease of management enabling you to upgrade existing customers and attract new ones.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 gives organizations a stable, security-focused, and consistent foundation across hybrid cloud deployments—and the tools they need to deliver applications and workloads faster with less effort.

About John:
Solutions Architect with over 15 years of hands-on experience. Experienced in
both pre-sales and post-sales customer interactions from Developer to C-level.

Established track record of working with partners and customers to sell, deploy
and support virtualized solutions. John has worked with hyper-converged
appliances, servers, networking and storage (SAN, NAS and object - physical &
SW-defined) as well as business continuity solutions including backup and
recovery.



der.hans: Hey Buster! Debian 10 released

Description:
Debian 10 brings with it many ch-ch-changes.

Reproduciable Builds, Wayland, AppArmor, nftables, cups.

10 hardware architectures, 59000 packages, 28,939 source packages, 11,610,055 source files, and 76 languages.

Stretch updates.

Get or upgrade to Debian 10 now.

Coming soon on Blu-ray.

About der.hans:
der.hans is a Free Software, technology and entrepreneurial veteran. He is a repeat author for the Linux Journal with his article about online privacy and security using a password manager as the cover article for the January 2017 issue.

He's chairman of the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG), BoF organizer for the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE), and founder of the Free Software Stammtisch and Stammtisch Job Nights.

He often presents at large community-led conferences (SCaLE, SeaGL, LFNW, Tübix) and many local groups.

https://floss.social/@FLOX_advocate
https://mastodon.social/@lufthans

Topic for the Security meeting on June 20th

Published: 12 June 2019

Aaron Jones: Introduction To Assembly - Part II

Description:
Introduction To Assembly Language is the second half to my reverse engineering course. This is part two of a multi part educational series on lower level software development and reverse engineering. Many developers and security experts are not familiar with assembly language or the lower levels of their hardware. This course is intended to begin familiarizing you with assembly language in order to build the foundation for future courses on reverse engineering.

Biography:
Aaron, the owner of Retro64XYZ, is a software developer who currently creates applications for law enforcement. He is also an AZ POST certified public speaker. He earned a B.Sc., in Computer Information Systems from Park University in 2013 and an M.A., in Intelligence Analysis with a focus in Cyber Security in 2014. During that period of his life he took a double course load and completed his Masters with a 3.695 GPA in a year. He has been the recipient of recognition from the El Paso Police Department, State Of Texas, Texas Military Forces, Chandler Police Department, and others.

Aaron is also active in the community as the founder of the Phoenix Linux Users Group Cyber Security Meetup and regularly teaches members of the public a myriad of topics related to Cyber Security. His audience includes students, teachers, law enforcement, military, government officials, and concerned members of the public with a strong desire to learn what is going on in the world of technology.

When Aaron isn’t teaching, working, or spending time with his family, he enjoys relaxing at the pond with a fishing pole while not catching fish, operating a pistol at the shooting range, or reading books. He owns a Sega Saturn and a Sega Dreamcast and his favorite video games are Panzer Dragoon, Road Rash, Phantasy Star Online 2, and Power Stone. He is currently engrossed in building content for his site and looking for more ways to reach the public. You should reach Aaron through his Mastodon or on Keybase. He would love to hear from you, answer your questions, or find out about the projects you are involved with.

 

Topics for Jun 13th's meeting

Published: 12 June 2019

Bill Lindley: Control The World (or whatever you want) With Linux and a Raspberry Pi

Description:
We will see how a $35 Raspberry Pi (or even the $9 version), a breadboard and a bit of circuitry connected to the SPI and I2C buses can control pretty much anything: a thermostat; a "self driving" model car; or a clock-radio that also displays software build progress and your corporate network uptime status.

Biography:
Mr. Lindley has been in the computer industry since he sold his first program (a printer driver for Heathkit HDOS) in 1980. He has used system from the earliest 8-bit microprocessors, through the PDP-11 and VAX, up to IBM mainframes, and has managed to write programs that did not crash on most of them. Mr. Lindley has been a GNU/Linux user since 1992 and has been free of proprietary software since 2001. Most recently he has been pleased to be an adjunct professor at Mesa Community College.

Rajendran Rathinasabapathy: In the crossroads of Agility, Microservices and Cloud computing

Description:
Being a project manager for a while evolving along with the evolution in the IT landscape of agility, microservices and cloud computer, I see a pattern in the painful ordeal teams go through, especially when collaboration is needed more than ever to build systems. The topic is very relevant when highly individualistic opensource programmers work together. In this presentation, as the subject is vast, I layout a list of critical blind spots and pitfalls the teams can avoid while designing and developing larger applications.

Biography:
Working in IT for the past 20 years from being a developer to a portfolio manager. Currently involved in strategizing CI/CD for a sub-domain in info security. with varied tech stacks. I am a proponent of microservices and also a scrum master. In my free time, I learn to make digital an analogue circuits. I teach programming and robotics to kids and I am learning Jiu-Jitsu :-)

Security Meeting Topic for May 16th

Published: 14 May 2019

Anthony Kosednar: Know Your Tools: Nmap

Description:
Nmap is a classic tool to discover hosts and services on a network. It is an essential tool that many Linux professionals have touch at one point. Yet, how many have they truly ever unlocked its full potential?

Whether you are a new or advanced user, join us as explore the typical Nmap use cases and dive into the versatile functionality that you may never have known existed.

About Anthony:
Anthony Kosednar is a multi-disciplined technology leader with a deep understanding in delivering cyber security and technology solutions. He works in the industry as a security engineer for enterprises. He holds a GIAC Exploit Research and Advance Penetration certificate (GXPN) as well as several certificates in Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems from DHS.