Well here we go again...
It's a new year, but we're still in the same place and still going
strong! Last year we continued to grow and to host many fantastic and
interesting talks, as well as performing the more important tasks such
as drinking beer and drinking more beer... This year we hope
doesn't time fly when you're hacking fun?
on a very topical note, this month we have:
Tuesday 29th October, 2013:
1st Speaker:
Tony Naggs
Title:
How the NSA (maybe) spies on your web shopping, email, social and
business networks
Synopsis:
Since the recent revelations about the extent of
All,
I've resisted spamming the list(s) so far and I'll keep this brief, but
as there's only about a day to go... If you're into, or thinking of
getting into RFID research, this might be for you:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1708444109/rfidler-a-software-defined-rfid-reader-writer-emu
about our latest project...
1st Speaker:
RFIDler - A Software Defined RFID Reader/Writer/Emulator
Adam "Major Malfunction" Laurie - Aperture Labs
I've gone back to my roots and starting playing with RFID again, but
this time I've got Chip Monkey to help so
OK, you've got the whole weekend ahead of you to dig out that project
you *know* you've been dying to talk about but haven't quite got the
rough edges off...
This month we're doing our annual lightning talk session, and we welcome
any and all 15 minute submissions. In fact, don't bother submit
Whether you're coming to town next week for London Infosec or BSides, or
you're in the smoke anyway, come and join us for what is normally our
busiest and most entertaining night of the year...
This time should be no exception: we have managed to retain our normal
venue - The Phoenix - and we
yes, it's that time of the month again and this time we have a speaker
on a subject close to my heart - low level hardware hacking...
Speaker:
Dominic Spill
Title:
"Introducing Daisho - monitoring multiple communication technologies at
the physical layer"
Synopsis:
Most communications m
Apologies for the late announcement...
Tomorrow we have a particularly excellent line-up!
Primary Speaker:
Arron Finnon - Finux Tech Weekly
Title:
"The OSNIF Project: NIDS/NIPS Testing and Auditing"
Synopsis:
Yeah great, I know its not a silver bullet! NIPS/NIDS have issues, and
that's putti
As promised at DC4420, here is the first cut (extremely beta!) of the
image processing software for semi-automating the task of extracting
data from images of Masked ROMs:
http://www.aperturelabs.com/tools.html
Fuller description/blog here:
http://oamajormal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/fun-wi
lity, they may still be
of practical importance when models are applied to large groups of
people, such as gaining the ability to see whether anti-social traits
are increasing or decreasing over a population.
and...
yours truly Adam Laurie (Major Malfunction) & Zac Franken - Aper
hey!
i know it's a bit late, but Happy New Year!
i've posted the dates for 2013 meetings on dc4420.org but you'll notice
there is very little else! that's because we still need talks!
for those that are yet to join us for our monthly gathering, the format
is we meet in a private room in a pub,
Hard to believe, but 2012 is almost over
Once again we've managed to secure the venue for a December meet, so we
can start the festivities well before your livers are too crippled by
office parties... Not only that, but we've even got a speaker lined up!
Chris from Facebook London's Site In
OK, this is the last one before the big one!
Whether you're coming to Vegas or not, you need to be here for this:
Title: "Hacking iOS Applications"
Synopsis: "iOS applications are leet and cool. Let's have some fun with
them!"
Pentester Bio: Zsombor Kovacs, "Zsombor is a security geek intereste
As I'm sure you've all now recovered from celebrating with The Queen,
it's time to crack open your wallets and come and celebrate the arrival
of the other week's worth of decent weather that we call the British
summer and have a drink with us!
This month we have a proper tekky talk on the very
Back at the Phoenix Sorry for the late notice, but you know the
score by now :)
Speakers:
'Why Industrial System air-gaps suck.'
Eireann Leverett of IOActive
A talk on why industrial systems can increasingly be found on the
internet, and how to work with CERTs to change it.
We've als
Yes, It's INFOSEC week again, so limber up your shwag carrying muscles
and head down to get your shiny shiny!!! You know you can never have too
many stress balls or thumb drives... And while you're there, come and
see us!
As usual, we are making special arrangements for the influx of bods that
Technical talk confirmed, still looking for a fun talk, but will take a
lightning talk on the night if you have one.
Tech : Handling Mercury by Nils of MWR
Nils will introduce the new Android assessment framework 'Mercury'
from MWR. It's a "community" tool set in as much as its free, open
This month we have our usual two talk format - one that you'll need to
concentrate on (and which will give us time to break into the bar), and
one through which you can sip the beer you bought to accompany the one
you bought for me...
Shaun Colley of IOActive will make our heads hurt with
Calling all survivors of 2011!
We're back! Hopefully, so are you...
Not only are we back, but we are back in the same old place in London's
lovely West End... The Phoenix.
And this year, to kick off, we have:
Duncan Alderson/webantix of upSploit hoping to start a lively
discussion on the s
OMG, it's Christmas again!!
But happily this year we don't have to lurk in the corner of a dingy pub
trying to look like we're having fun amongst the estate agents, bankers
and stock borkers annual do's, as we have our very own cosy well stocked
*private* bar and meeting space as per normal
Where:
DOWNSTAIRS @ The Phoenix, Cavendish Square
http://www.phoenixcavendishsquare.co.uk/
When:
Tuesday 15th November, 2011
17:30 until kicking out time
Why:
Drinking and playing with awesome tech
Who:
You
Me
THC (The Hackers Choice twitter:@hackerschoice)
What:
T
As we've had a bit of a break, we've lined up something special this
month, and, of course, your livers will be in great shape for a bit of
extra abuse... :P
We're going to give this one plenty of headroom, so only one talk this time:
Glenn of Sensepost will be 'hacking Penny Auctions'...
M
On 13/07/11 18:47, Major Malfunction wrote:
>
> When:
>
> Tuesday 25th January 2011
OMG I'm a f*kwit (again).
I meant Tuesday 19th July 2011, obviously!!!
cheers,
MM
--
"In DEFCON, we have no names..." errr... we
OK, you know the drill... We have monthly meetings. This is one of them.
Be there!
What:
Shaun Colley - Jumping the guard page for fun and profit
"Stack overflows, generally due to recursion, have long been brushed
aside as 'not exploitable..DoS only'. This isn't true - stack overflows
AR
Blimey, where does the time go??? Yes, it's already only a week to go
before the next DC4420 meet...
Last week, inspired by Paco Hope's awesome randomness talk, Zac, Caezar
and I went out for a really good lunch and discussed randomness and how
to achieve it. As Paco says, it's quite hard to do
Just over a week to go until this month's London DEFCON meet, so get it
in your diary now!
For the talks we have:
Tech Talk: Paco Hope of Cigital is going to present on randomness...
We've seen how to get good random numbers from hardware.
Given that, you would think that shuf
*** REMINDER!!! Now *this* Wednesday...
>
> You wanted technical, you got it In March we quantum'd your minds
> then keylogged you with 13 lines of code: Thanks to Gregoire of IDQ for
> the drinks and the great talk. Thanks to Krunch for the Systemtap
> walkthrough and entertaining delive
Doh!! Subject should of course have read Wednesday 20th, not 22nd!
Major Malfunction wrote:
> I know it's 3 weeks out, but there's a lot going on that week so I
> wanted to make sure you've got this in your calendars!
>
> You wanted technical, you got it In Ma
I know it's 3 weeks out, but there's a lot going on that week so I
wanted to make sure you've got this in your calendars!
You wanted technical, you got it In March we quantum'd your minds
then keylogged you with 13 lines of code: Thanks to Gregoire of IDQ for
the drinks and the great talk.
Another 22nd! How spooky is that? If I were a gambling man, I'd be
betting on horse number 22 coming in 2nd in the 2nd race... or something
and while we're on the subject of unlikely things, who says there's no
such thing as free beer? Yes, this month we've found not one but two
victi^Wspon
*** REMINDER ***
This is next Tuesday!
If it ain't in your diary already, make sure it is now... THC talk
promises to be a stonker, and Christer is, well Christer!!!
>
> This month we have a spectacular start to the year with a stellar guest
> speaker from The Hacker's Choice presenting
If I said you had a beautiful venue would you hold it against me?
OK, so the January social was not only good++ but it also confirmed that
we have an awesome new home!!! Place is big, but not too big - room for
growth but laid out so we can easily huddle in the meantime. Food is
good. Beer is g
Hi All!
As if eating drinking and hacking your way through Christmas and New
Year weren't enough, we've now got Burns Night to contend with, a new
venue to break in, and only a few days to get ready!!!
Yes, after several months of stomping (actually, cycling in his case)
the streets, alien has
allegedly, it's that time of the month again...
as all our speakers are either dying from strep throat having spent more
hours than is medically advisable in the company of desert heat and/or
air conditioning, or are sunning themselves on some far away beach where
dc4420 is the last thing on th
wow, doesn't time fly when planes don't? :P
if, like me, you've been stuck in the UK, admiring the ash cloud and
listening to the chants of the soon to be unemployed trolley dollies,
you'll be glad of the distraction of a couple of pints, a decent pie and
some evil hax0r learning hammered into
Aargh! It's INFOSEC next week
If you are:
a. Attending INFOSEC
b. In London anyway
c. Able to fly through volcanic ash
d. From another DEFCON group
e. Bored
f. Interested
g. Interesting
h. Any of the above
Then come and join us for April's 'Social' DC4420,
Yes, we've just managed to squeak in the last Wednesday of the month
and, as autom8on failed to burn down the venue last month, we're back
to have another go...
This month's lineup is:
The tekky one:
DIY grid computing - it's easier than you think
tqm will show how to create a simple
h the line up being:
Jean-Luc : JVM breakout (the technical one)
autom8on : thermal lance quick demo (the 'you can do this at home
kids' fun one) ((( I'm hoping 'demo' is being used in the loosest
possible way here )))
Major Malfunction : Armchair UAV Spot
ndon Underground station (680m) - zone 1
Covent Garden London Underground station (750m) - zone 1
talks:
- mu-b : disk crypto stuff (the technical one)
- even + others : white hat rally (the non-technical one)
as mu-b may be late, and the rally talk may be quite short, we will also
have:
- Bonus: M
yes, another year has gone by and some of the survivors will be
gathering together to swap tales of horror and/or triumph and to soothe
our wounds with liberal applications of alcohol...
all are welcome to join us, and as it's just a social, there is no
pressure to perform! unless, of course, j
what it says on the tin...
i regret to inform you that there will be no meeting this month due to
repeated let-downs with the current venue...
instead, alien & i will be scouting new locations for next year (i.e.
going on a massive pub-crawl... :)
we would also like to remind you that next mon
this month we have three great talks lined up, and, if Alien actually
remembers to bring the shwag, we *will* have an auction for Hackers for
Charity/EFF!!!
talks are:
y3d: stego in directories - Subere
Evoting Machines - Glyn
Eye in the sky. - Merlin
time / date:
18:00 for
We're back! Was the summer time good? oh yes, the minor matter of a
conference or three...
If you attend DC4420 be prepared to speak.
Speakers, speakers send Alien your slides! now booking for October and
November meetings.
FYI: For the first time we're going to risk a meeting in December -
a
hey all,
having skipped June, this is the last chance for a get-together before
the big one in Vegas!!!
this month we're going for lightening talks of 10 minutes each, so if
you have something small but interesting or a taster for something
larger/longer that you'd like to present in future or
yep, what it says on the tin:
we will be meeting this Thursday, 21st May, same time, same place:
time / date:
18:00 for 19:30
Thursday 21st May 2009
location:
Sound Club
1 Leicester Square,
London,
WC2H 7NA
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=1+Leicester
OK, so we're all set for an awesome meet this month:
new venue with huge space in central london...
3 Fantastic talks:
*** Andrea Barisani & Daniele Bianco:
Sniffing Keystrokes With Lasers/Voltmeters - Side Channel Attacks
Using Optical Sampling Of Mechanical Energy And Power Line Leaka
hey all!
so this month we've decided to go crazy and make DC4420 coincide with
Infosec London to give all you out-of-towners a chance to come and meet
up, so get this in your diary if you're heading in for Infosec...
we're getting to the point where we've outgrown our current home anyway,
so w
Yes it's that time of the month already! We need to meet in west London
and drink beer! Errr... I mean talk about techy hacky stuff...
This month we've got Dominic giving us an update on his Bluetooth Foo,
and, in an attempt to encourage some more speakers to come forward, the
rest of the sessi
/demo - Guillaume
Sneak preview of a $100 man-in-the-middle RFID protocol analyser -
Major Malfunction (bring RFID tags!!!)
And, of course... if this is your first meet... YOU will be talking!
Where will all this take place?
Upstairs @ The Glassblower
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&h
hi all!
here is an announcement, shamelessly cut & pasted from the website (i.e.
alien wrote it really :)
Thursday 15th January.
Happy seasonal greetings and stuff.
The new year rolls in, the Govt 'crazy ideas' talking starts again -
however here - sanity reigns and thus we bring you:
"Tramp
Yes folks, it's that time of the month/year again...
This will be our last meeting of 2008, so we're planning to make it a
goodun!!! All are welcome, but remember - we operate Fight Club rules...
If this is your first meet, you *will* speak! :)
We've got extended bar time at the upstairs bar at
Yes, folks, it's that time of the year/month again...
This will be our last meeting of 2008, so we're planning to make it a
goodun!!! All are welcome, but remember - Fight Club rules apply... If
this is your first meet, you *will* talk... :)
We've got extended bar time in the upstairs bar at ou
folks,
thanks to alien quietly beavering away behind the scenes, we've managed
to pull a great October meet together...
The Talks!
- Introduction to GNU Radio - Dominic
- OpenVAS - TimB
- the autom8ton guide to locks
- R2Z+CBI/O=BBUK - Rich Smith
GNU Radio + the locks will break down into wor
yes, we've recovered enough from the rigours of DC16 to be able to
scrape together another London meet, this Thursday, at the Glassblower...
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/20/2081/Glassblower/Piccadilly
as usual, we have our own room with it's own bar (1st floor, with it's
own entran
hey all,
it's that time of the month again!
so we present to you : DC4420 June @ the Glassblower:
- Wargames!
The Winning team will be presenting 'how they did it' -
(note:everyone should buy them Guinness. Schwag will be awarded as well)
- Last-minute hastily-put-together presentation on
hey all,
following the roaring success of last month's meeting, we've had to
switch venues yet again just to fit you all in! the new venue (and
hopefully our new "home") in the centre of london will be:
The Glassblower, 42 Glasshouse Street, London, W1B 5DL
details here:
http://www.bee
i'm very pleased to (finally) announce a meet for 2008...
we've got a new venue which we're trying out, so hopefully we'll solve
the problem of non-exclusivity which we've suffered at the last few
meets, as well as a more central location which should be easier for
folks to get to...
meet will
hi all,
you are cordially invited to the final DC4420 meet of 2007, which will
be held on Tuesday the 11th December, at the usual location - Charing
Cross Sports Club, Charing Cross Hospital:
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=51.4857&lon=-0.2194&scale=5000&icon=x
more info here:
h
To quote Alien from the 4420 website:
Monday 24th September, 2007 starting at 19:30
-room private till 21:30 then we might pop out to a certain local
again... :-)
Location: Charing Cross Sports Club, Charing Cross Hospital
Tube: Hammersmith or Barons Court
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi
Wednesday 22nd August, 2007 starting at 19:30
-room private till 21:30 then we might pop out to a certain local
again... :-)
Location: Charing Cross Sports Club, Charing Cross Hospital
Tube: Hammersmith or Barons Court
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=51.4857&lon=-0.2194&scale=5000&ico
The monthly meet of the London DEFCON group will take place this
Thursday, as usual, at The Hand & Flower, Olympia...
Full details here:
http://www.dc4420.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=34&forum=4
Hope to see you there...
cheers,
MM
--
"In DEFCON, we have no names..." errr... well
As usual, the London DEFCON group will be meeting in Kensington Olympia
for talks, drinks and discussions, this Thursday, the 25th May.
Full details here:
http://www.dc4420.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=22&forum=4
Location:
Upstairs at The Hand and Flower, Hammersmith Road, Kensing
Full details of this and past events here:
http://www.dc4420.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8&forum=4&post_id=18#forumpost18
Hope to see some of you there...
cheers,
MM
--
"In DEFCON, we have no names..." errr... well, we do... but silly ones...
__
security folk,
as usual, an open invitation to come and talk, drink, nerd and geek in
the heart of West London... full details here:
http://www.dc4420.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4&post_id=6&order=0&viewmode=flat&pid=0&forum=4#forumpost6
momentum is building and we had some reall
The January DC4420 meeting will be held at the Hand & Flower, Olympia,
on Thursday the 19th.
Time:
Room available from 19:30. Meeting commences 20:00.
Location:
Upstairs at the Hand & Flower, Olympia
http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pub1835.htm
Food & Drink available on site.
Pro
calling all London based hackers, security professionals, feds, geeks,
nerds, groupies and scene whores...
on behalf of DC4420, i'm pleased to announce the inaugural meeting of
the London DC group, and invite you to come and drink, talk and set the
agenda for the year to come... the venue will
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