From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jun 13 10:03:23 2016 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 10:03:23 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Wednesday: HardenedBSD Message-ID: (followup announce coming regarding other upcoming news) Wednesday, June 15 Adventures in HardenedBSD, Shawn Webb 18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St Notice: Not the usual first Wednesday Abstract This last year has been an amazing one for HardenedBSD. We're now around 1.5 years old (though our codebase has existed for longer) and we're starting to get noticed. This presentation talks about the cool things we're doing in exploit mitigation development and OPNSense integration. You'll hear where we've come from, what we're doing now, and where we'll be headed in the next year. Included will be discussions of ASLR, W^X, PIE + RELRO, and a few other lower-level tidbits in exploit mitigation development. Speaker Bio Shawn is a security engineer for G2, Inc. He is also the cofounder of HardenedBSD and one of its lead engineers. He was introduced into the security industry as a teenager, falling in love with both offensive and defensive security. Shawn has written tools like libhijack, which aims to make runtime process infection dead simple on Linux and FreeBSD. Now he works primarily on the defensive end, implementing exploit mitigation technologies in HardenedBSD. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Jun 15 12:26:53 2016 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:26:53 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight: HardenedBSD Message-ID: June 15 Adventures in HardenedBSD, Shawn Webb 18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St Notice: Not the usual first Wednesday Abstract This last year has been an amazing one for HardenedBSD. We're now around 1.5 years old (though our codebase has existed for longer) and we're starting to get noticed. This presentation talks about the cool things we're doing in exploit mitigation development and OPNSense integration. You'll hear where we've come from, what we're doing now, and where we'll be headed in the next year. Included will be discussions of ASLR, W^X, PIE + RELRO, and a few other lower-level tidbits in exploit mitigation development. Speaker Bio Shawn is a security engineer for G2, Inc. He is also the cofounder of HardenedBSD and one of its lead engineers. He was introduced into the security industry as a teenager, falling in love with both offensive and defensive security. Shawn has written tools like libhijack, which aims to make runtime process infection dead simple on Linux and FreeBSD. Now he works primarily on the defensive end, implementing exploit mitigation technologies in HardenedBSD. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Jun 28 22:49:18 2016 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:49:18 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming: July 6 meeting, HOPE, installfest Message-ID: Several important events are on for July and August. July 6 on RetroBSD and LiteBSD July 22-24 HOPE which will feature a table from the FreeBSD Foundation (and we need volunteers to help staff the table) August 3 a post-HOPE installfest July 6: Meet the Smallest BSDs: RetroBSD and LiteBSD, Brian Callahan 18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St (note Brian's talk@ post about ordering hardware) Abstract We all expect *BSD to run on our personal computers and servers. What you may not know is that the last five years have seen a successful experiment to bring *BSD to the PIC32 microcontrollers. There are now two different full *BSD operating systems for these microcontrollers: RetroBSD, a port of 2.11BSD, and LiteBSD, based on 4.4BSD-Lite2. This talk introduces the two smallest BSDs, the differences between them, what hardware you need (with hands-on demos), and how to get involved. We'll overview what works, what doesn't, the challenges of writing a complete operating system with extremely small RAM limits in the modern era, and how to incorporate *BSD on the microcontroller into your *BSD universe. Speaker Bio Brian is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research explores how underserved groups vie for legitimacy and normalcy in the IT sector through diversity and other initiatives. He is an ex-OpenBSD developer who used to do a lot of work on ports but now advocates for a BSD-agnostic approach. Somehow, George keeps convincing him that giving talks at NYCBUG is a good idea. ******* HOPE (www.hope.net) will feature a table sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation. We are looking for volunteers to assist in staffing the table. It's a great opportunity to engage HOPE attendees about FreeBSD and the other BSDs. NYC*BUG will have a flier publicizing the installfest set for August 3. Our last installfest was a success in that a number of people did short overviews of their installs to more unusual hardware. Every HOPE attendee should see the fliers. It's a great opportunity to talk to those beyond the usual suspects, but the table won't happen without enough volunteers.