VTLUUG:Talks

This is a list of talks people would like to see and (unscheduled) talks people are willing to put together if they are nagged. Since there's no dedicated VTCSEC wiki, you can also list talks on this page that you'd like to see given there.

Talks people are willing to give

• ubervert - Full disk encryption.
• telnoratti - Quantum Cryptography
• telnoratti - Intro to Modern Cryptology
• telnoratti - Linux and Unix Distro Sampler
• telnoratti - Grub2
• Matt - Parprouted
• Matt - Port bonding
• Matt - RFID overview (125 kHz / 13.56 MHz technologies) and vulnerabilities (probably moved to CSEC)
• mutantmonkey - Karaoke
• mutantmonkey - Chef
• mutantmonkey - Kerberos and LDAP
• Jagged - Software Radios - Introduction to GNU Radio, OSSIE, current SDR trends and capabilities, system architecture
• Jagged - Digital is Analog - Transients from EM and circuit theory, nyquist rate, causalality - survey
• Jagged - Digital is Analog II - "Digital" RF, Ethernet, Optics
• Jagged - RF Security - Controlling your emissions
• Jagged - RF explained: modulation, antennas, and link budgets
• Jagged - FCC Part 97 vs. Part 15 operation
• Jagged - AX.25
• Jagged - Linux utilities for amateur radio
• Jagged - Linux utilities for ECE: QUCS
• Mr. Black - Browser Architecture
• Mr. Black - Active Directory
• Mr. Black - Hadoop and HBase
• AndreiM - OS X: UNIX tools and advanced power user techniques
• AndreiM - Intro to Web Development with unix tools
• AndreiM - Intro to easy VPS management
• ram - OpenBSD router tutorial (pf, IPsec, IPv6, DNS, DHCP server)
• ram - IPv6
• ram - Some basic IPC stuff (having fun(?) with unix domain sockets, pipes, etc)
• ram - Vim (beginner or intermediate)
• Timelord - Intro to GPGPU computing
• Timelord - Game hacking on OS X (strategies, tools, and lessons learned)
• Timelord - LDraw
• Timelord - Introduction to raytracing with POV-Ray
• Timelord - Audio with JACK
• angelicstrike - Haskell
• angelicstrike - Programming TCP/IP Sockets
• Dyreshark - Clojure

Talks people would like to see

• Short presentation of how members use Linux/UNIX in their daily routines, thus making people hear about various tools they didn't know existed/haven't seen used.
• Samba
• NFS (including NFS4)
• FDE (both boot disk and external drives)
• Mutantmonkey's security practices
• Failover tools for Linux (e.g. CARP) and simple high availability/clustered services in RHEL/CentOS and/or Debian
• DNS (theory, caching/recursive, brief tutorial on how to make your own on Linux/BSD, DNSSEC)
• Mail
  • Mutt & GPG demo - requested by dmaczka, but will be covered in CSEC
• C11 features
• GSM protocol, how to MITM - potential Cyber Security Club topic
• MIFARE and iCLASS attacks - potential Cyber Security Club topic
• Expert level Vim
• Emacs
• Timecube
• X.Org and Wayland
• DragonFly BSD
• Sys V Init
• Openstreetmap - mutantmonkey
• The evolution and justification of coding styles
• Survey of archaic programming languages

VTCSEC

• IPSEC
• PF / IPTables
• Hardware Crypto
• Metasploit "advanced" CLI
• Physical security - Matt
• IPv6
• Malware analysis
• Key signing
• Botnets
• Software radio
• Buffer overflows, etc
• Social engineering
• Using CSS to hack Gmail
• TPMs - dyreshark
• Forensics

Old talks

These are things from the old VTLUUG:Roadmap page, and may get added if there is sufficient interest. Most of these were added a couple years ago, so their status is unknown

• Real-time talk in March
• Android talk
• PIM talk
• OpenStreetMap talk
  • Educational portion
  • Showoff portion
    • osm3d
    • TerpNav
• Others (Always Innovating, Randy Marchany, John Harris, Godmar Back, Ico Bukvic?)