Wireless Security Auditing Presentation
On Feburary 19th, 7:00 pm in CS 209A, William Atkins, the illustrious former SIG Sec co-chair, will be presenting on his work at Sandia National Laboratories, on the topic of Wireless Security Auditing.
Free pizza and more information to come.
Also, Will will be attending the ACM Career Fair Dinner at Alex’s Pizza. Be sure to rsvp to acm@mst.edu
Social Engineering Presentation (26 MB)
Student speaker AJ McDonald will be talking about Social Engineering at our next meeting on
Thursday, February 5th at 7:00 in CS209A.
His talk will cover all the important qualities of a social engineer.
For the first 2009 meeting, SIGSec is having Karl Lutzen from Missouri S&T IT discuss how he analyzes your packets.
Its Thursday Jan 22nd at 7:00pm in CS 209A.
Can you analyze network traffic for anomalies and still maintain the privacy of the contents of the network traffic? Yes you can! Much of S&T network security is done by looking at where traffic is flowing, what type of traffic and the quantities and anomalies to identify issues without having to view the contents of the packet.
For our last meeting on Dec 4th at 7pm, ACM, SIG Sec, ACM-W, and UPE are all joining together to bring you a meeting full of fun, excitement, and free pizza.
We will turn the CS Building into a miniature golf course, and will have a Street Fighter 2 tournament on the ACM arcade cabinet.
Join ACM SIG Sec for our meeting on November 12th 7:00 in CS209A. Guest speaker Elonka Dunin will be talking about her work as a cryptographer.
Elonka Dunin, world’s #1 expert on Kryptos, the mysterious encrypted
sculpture at the center of CIA Headquarters, will give a multimedia talk
on the sculpture and the speculation on the messages it bears. Elonka
will also be showing the 11-minute PBS NOVAscienceNOW segment about the
sculpture, including interviews with the artist James Sanborn, and the
chairman of the CIA Cryptographic Center, Ed Scheidt.
Be sure to stick around, as SIG Sec will be going to eat at Kyoto, the Japanese Restaurant, afterwards.
The next ACM SigSecurity meeting is Wednesday 10/29/08 in CS209A at 7:00.
Mike Collins has recently joined the Risk Management team at Brown Smith Wallace LLC after 8 years at Deloitte & Touche. There he had national responsibility for the approval of security practitioners and testing tools that the firm utilizes for attack and penetration engagements. He has more than 12 years of experience in the field of information systems security, is an acknowledged national expert in attack and penetration testing, UNIX systems administration and security, firewall and network architecture, wireless networking and intrusion detection systems. He has performed a large number of security assessments for companies in the financial services, government, consumer business, energy and telecommunications industries. The security solutions provided include intrusion detection, firewall systems, authentication systems, and security architecture implementation assistance.
He has designed and implemented Virtual Private Network (VPN) and wireless solutions allowing clients to reduce costs considerably related to network connectivity and designed and implemented a wide range of firewall architectures, including Checkpoint Firewall–1, Gauntlet, Raptor, and PIX based firewalls and various intrusion detection technologies.
The next ACM SigSecurity meeting is Wednesday 10/15/08 in CS209A at 7:00.
We are having a Faculty guest speaker: Dr. Chellappan. His research interests are in the areas of Network Security, Wireless Networks and Distributed Systems and at our meeting will be talking about Network Authentication.
Securely authenticating a human user without assistance from any auxiliary device in the presence of powerful passive adversaries is an important and challenging problem. Passive adversaries are those that can passively monitor, intercept, and analyze every part of the authentication procedure, except for an initial secret shared between the user and the server.
In this talk, he will propose a new secure authentication scheme called Predicate-based Authentication
Service (PAS). In this scheme, for the first time, the concept of a predicate is introduced for authentication.
He will present some analysis on the proposed scheme and implementation results of its prototype system. One of the major features of the PAS scheme is its ability to simultaneously achieve a desired level of security and user friendliness.
The website for Dr. Chellappan’s PAS can be found here: http://drtcl4.cse.ohio-state.edu/B/
Get ready for our annual Wireless Security Audit.
This meeting we will use the cantennas you built at the last meeting (or on your own) to do a security audit of Rolla. We will meet in CS 209A at 7:00 to discuss rules and then each group will split up to go out. $5 from each team to cover the cost of the n-connectors is required. Afterward we will collect the logs from each group and later will announce the winners, there will be prizes.
The next Acm SigSec meeting is Wednesday, September 17 at 7:00 in CS209A.
We will teach you how to build a cantenna, a directional antenna build using of can, which you can use to better pick up wireless signals. This is the precursor to our annual Wireless Security Audit which will take place at the next meeting, two weeks from now.
Bring along a can (pringles, coffee, pirouette, or anything else bigger than a soda one), preferably clean and we will provide the hardware to build the antenna.
Update: For those of you still interested in building your own but had to jet early or just interested in cantennas in general, here are some fine resources available online for you to use.
The main things you need to know are that the placement of the n-connector should be (lambda g) / 4 away from the BACK of the can and the height of the wire from the n-connector should be (lambda o) / 4 tall. There are some nice calculators on the websites above that take the effort out of finding those values.
Our first meeting of the year is Wednesday, 9-3 at 7:00 in CS209A.
We will talk about the recent DNS exploit as well as other security news that has happened recently.
Come join us and find out what else we have planned for this semester.
