Fresh off his interview with Will Backman on bsdtalk, Jason will be giving a talk and demonstration on PF, CARP and pfsync. The demonstration will include using two Soekris embedded devices with OpenBSD configured as a redundant carp pair. Though highly dramatic, I doubt Jason will use the infamous "axe …

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John Ferrell wrote in to say:

For the past several years Tux.org, an umbrella organization supporting the efforts of users groups and developers, has had a booth at FOSE (Federal Office Systems Expo). Tux.org's goal at FOSE is to help promote the use of Linux and other open …

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This month's meeting was at SPARTA's office in Columbia and had 13 attendees.

Matt Fisher presented his talk entitled "Mistakes to Lure Hackers: Vulnerability 2.0". Matt introduced the audience to modern web application vulnerabilities including cross-site scripting, SQL injection and even "blind" SQL injection.

Cross-Site-Scripting and SQL Injection are …

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After starting the Capital Area BSD Users Group, founders Jason Dixon and I realized that other BUGs could benefit from the pooled resource and information sharing of user groups world-wide. They discussed their ideas with Darren Spruell and Darrin Chandler of the Phoenix BUG, and the MetaBUG began to take …

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This month's meeting was at SPARTA's office in Columbia. There were 16 attendees this time so Columbia may be a more popular meeting place for us. For this meeting, we had Jason Dixon giving the main presentation on Secure Mail Servers with BSD. Afterwards, Patrick Thomasson gave a short talk …

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