January meeting almost here!

It’s almost Friday, and as mentioned previously, due to the Holiday falling on a Friday we have moved the meeting to 1/08/2015.

Vlad has a special guest, Dr. Charles Tritt from MSOE will be joining us, and will be giving a demonstration with a TENS unit, somehow facilitating a human-to-human interface.  It’ll definitely be a meeting to remember!

See you there!

-darkwind

 

Upcoming Events (as of December 2015)

December 12:  Escape MKE, where a group is locked in a puzzle room, where puzzles, riddles, and coded messages are the only means of escape.  Doing the James Bomb mission.  All sold out for our group.

December 19: BasementLAN, contact Darkwind if you’re not already in.

January 8: DC414 Meeting, CESI  (first Friday is Jan 1st, so we probably won’t meet then)

March 11-12: Cyphercon, at Pfister and Safe House.  We want DC414 hackers at Cyphercon, so get in on the tickets as soon as you can! SOLD OUT

Upcoming Events (as of October 2015)

October 10: LAN Party, at CESI
October 17:  Escape MKE, where a group is locked in a puzzle room, where puzzles, riddles, and coded messages are the only means of escape.  Contact Korgo or Belouve if you’re interested in going.
October 31: Halloween Party, at Bubbles’ and Belouve’s house (contact directly for address, none of this blasting the address out to all the Internet).

November 6: DC414 Meeting, CESI

March 12: Cyphercon, at Safe House.  We want DC414 hackers at Cyphercon, so get in on the tickets as soon as you can!

Upcoming Events (as of Sept 2015)

To make a quick summary of upcoming events:

October 3-4: Barcamp, location is Sussex, WI
October 3: DC414 Meeting, held AT BARCAMP
October 10: LAN Party, probably at CESI
October 31: Halloween Party, at Bubbles’ and Belouve’s house (contact directly for address, none of this blasting the address out to all the Internet).

March 12: Cyphercon, at Safe House

Other TBD items:
A trip to Escape Chambers (see escapechambers.com), where a group is locked in a puzzle room, where puzzles, riddles, and coded messages are the only means of escape.
Some of us were interested in going, so we’ll look into it further.

September DC414 Meeting Recap

Return of meeting recaps!

Klaviel started us off by showing us how to view alternate data streams in files. Demo was with Notepad and a few command prompt commands.

Klaviel then showed a brief video on hotel room lock hacking, on the Onity locks. The video he showed off can be found here

Korgo announced an upcoming Milwaukee conference that he is leading: Cyphercon. Cyphercon will be held on March 12th, and the venue that has already been reserved is the Safe House in downtown Milwaukee. The themes involved are Ciphers, Puzzles, Lock Picking, Safe Cracking, Covert Operations, Cryptography and Privacy. Klaviel will be doing lock demos at this conference, and Belouve will be creating the puzzles and badge challenge for the conference.
Attendance is limited to 100 guests, and the ticket prices are $100.
The website for Cyphercon is located here: CYPHERCON.COM You may buy tickets now using Bitcoin ($95) or Credit Card ($100).

Belouve did a DEFCON 23 recap, with input from other members that attended. An overview of the slides/websites he used can be found here: DEFCON 23 Recap
There is also the website for the DEFCON 23 Badge walkthrough at PotatoHat Security

Klaviel also showcased video from the DEFCON 23 shoot.

There was also a demo (I forget the guy’s handle) on mounting and decrypting an encrypted hard drive within Linux. The simplicity of commands would be more useful than using an array of tools to mount an encrypted hard drive (say, migrating from Windows to Linux).

Those were all the demos that I can recall. I will take some actual notes next time, instead of relying only on memory. A list of upcoming events will be in a separate post.

The meeting then broke up at about 11pm. Nerf, quadcopters, and other shenanigans were kept until after 11pm.

June meetup re-cap

We’re still very much alive and active, no one has bothered to update the website is all. 🙂   dw5304 got us off to a fun start with some Outernet reception, although it was really a demofail.  Still fun to set up a satellite and receive signals!

Klaiviel had an awesome 3d printed brute force machine in the works for combination locks.  Very fast!

We also did a nice sized LAN party on Saturday, lots of fun, booze, and yelling commenced.  Want to join in the fun? Feeling like you missed out? Are you on our mailing list? You should be!  or join us on IRC on freenode at #dc414.

-darkwind