Georgia Weidman brings her awesome Metasploit for Pentesting Class to Unallocated Space!

Posted on December 29, 2011 by DaveMarcus

Need to start the New Year off on a hacking note? Looking to sharpen up your pentesting or learn a new skill or two?? Plan on being at Unallocated Space on Jan 7th at 500PM when Georgia Weidman from Neohapsis will be teaching her Metasploit for Pentesting class. Some highlights of this class include:

  • The basics of using the Metasploit Framework
  • The basics of penetration testing
  • Basic Uses of Metasploit during pentesting

This class is suitable for those with no background in Metasploit or penetration testing as well as both novice and experienced penetration testers who want to add the Metasploit Framework to their arsenal.

Attendees will need a computer capable of running virtual machines. Having vmware or virtual box already installed would be helpful but the student handout will have installers for vmware trials or free versions depending on platforms.

4 hours of hacking, penetration testing and Metasploit goodness from Georgia Weidman at Unallocated Space!?!? Miss it and you just suck.

@DaveMarcus

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Educate yourself on the consequences of SOPA/Protect-IP

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Nick Farr

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House that would enable the government and corporate entities the ability to censor the Internet. Intended to assist the entertainment industry in anti-piracy efforts, the law would shut down entire sites if a party can convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”

Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that manyrgue will not shut down piracy efforts, but may disrupt the Internet, stifle innovation and free speech. Some argue the bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

Unallocated Space very rarely involves itself in the political sphere, but the potential consequences of this bill are frightening. As a community heavily engaged in the Internet and how it functions, we encourage you to find out more about how the proposed legislation works so you can be informed and voice your opinion on it to your Representatives in Congress.

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3D Printing

Posted on November 29, 2011 by HexJunkie

 

The space has acquired the parts necessary to start building a 3D printer. I am sure everyone would like to print the odd part every now and then. This project needs your help. Any amount can be donated, but if you donate $100 or more in parts or money towards the project; I will print the parts for your very own 3D printer. The printed parts are not all you need to build the printer, but it is a very good start and the average cost of these parts are between $100 and $300 on ebay. The total parts list is included in the wiki then you can use the step by step instructions guide (that I am building as part of this project) to assemble your own RepRap. If you would like another style of 3D printer like a cupcake or a different type of RepRap, I can print those parts too and give you advice on where to buy the rest of your parts from. Any amount is helpful and all donations are taken. You can either give cash to a keyholder, drop cash/check/money order into locker number 9 at the space, or you can submit credit card payments via paypal (link coming soon) to the space. Make sure you put RepRap or 3D printer in the notes field. If you want to check out what parts are needed please go to Unallocated Space’s 3D Printing Wiki We will also be printing up the parts for a printer to go to Tokyo,Japan to aid in interhackerspace relations. Any questions should be directed at HexJunkie.

 

 

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Unallocated Space: A Year In Review

Posted on November 14, 2011 by C-P

 

It’s hard to believe its already been well over a year since we started the planning stages of Unallocated Space, and almost a year since we officially opened.

This last year has seen the success and challenges of our design. The space was formed around a new community centric model with a counter-intuitive financial back end. We have created a fantastic space, filled with amazing and passionate people, doing insane and exciting things. It makes me proud to say the Space has made it through the first year, and I am looking forward to the next year to see what we can accomplish.

Just some of the crazy things we have done over the last year can be found on our Youtube page, as well as on our internal Wiki

Join us this coming Saturday the 19th to celebrate this last year, and to look forward to the next year at Unallocated Space.

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Analog Gaming Sunday

Posted on November 12, 2011 by s00ner

Sunday November 13th at 2:00 PM is our monthly Analog Gaming Sunday.  Join us for some friendly competition and good fun playing your favorite non-electronic games.

This Sunday our spotlight game is The Settlers of Catan.  Catan is a board game where the players take the role of settlers who are trying to grow their settlements through gaining and trading resources.  Drop by the space Sunday and bring some friends to get your game on.

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Unallocated Space Hackoween Party

Posted on October 26, 2011 by C-P

Join us this Saturday from 8 PM to Sunday morning for our annual Hackoween Party. Costumes encouraged, but not required. Weather permitting, we will be showing off the Fire Tornado Rig.

As usual, everyone is welcome to join us and have a good time. The space will even decked out in a Halloween theme!

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Tenable InfoSec Career Night with Jack Daniel

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Nick Farr

Calling all InfoSec professionals, those looking to break into the field and everyone else who’d like some free pizza and beer!

This Wednesday, September 28 @ 7 PM, Unallocated Space is proud to present Tenable Network Security‘s Jack Daniel.

Jack’s first 20 minute session, “From sock puppets to CSOs, how to get your message heard” is about using storytelling techniques and ideas to improve how effectively we communicate with others–an area where many of us in InfoSec could use a little help.

The second topic is “Stress and Burnout in Infosec Careers”.  This will be a review of some research Jack is working on along with a few friendly experts in the community.   He’s got some lessons and observations to share, after which he hopes to have an open discussion with you!

No matter what stage of the InfoSec career path you’re on, whether you’re looking for a job or happy where you’re at, you’ll want to stop by UAS for some pointers and friendly networking.  It’s also a great time to check out UAS if you’ve never been here before.

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Mission success! Two new blazing fast APs on the way!

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Nick Farr

Less than a week ago, we asked you guys to help us upgrade our wireless infrastructure, and you responded with full force!

In only three days, folks here in the space and the extended UAS family from as far away as Florida raised nearly $200 to fully fund two Buffalo Technologies AirStation™ High Power N600 Gigabit Dual Band Wireless Routers (Model WZR-HP-AG300H).

Donations came in through cash at the space, PayPal and our new experiment in fee-free donation processing, Venmo.  We’ve even got a Cisco 2950 switch as a hardware donation on the way to help improve network performance.

The plan is to use these two multi-band routers to increase total wireless throughput in the space, reduce latency for gamers during LAN parties and even do a little bit of experimentation on how to fully use the 802.11(x) to crank as many packets through the air as possible.

We were also attracted to these models because they run DD-WRT straight out of the box.  (And yes, we even had a GPL violator mention or two in the discussion about new networking gear in our e-mail group.)

The network users at Unallocated Space thank everyone who answered the call for your support!

 

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An appeal from your friendly neighborhood BOFH

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Nick Farr

TL;DR version: We need better wireless gear at the space, and we need some support to do it.

It seems much of the “slowness” [of our wireless network at the space] stems from the fact that our wifi router only has limited bandwith.  Wifi is a shared medium.  That means if we have an 802.11G setup that allows 54mb throughput you lose around half or so to management frame overhead. This then leaves say, on average 36mb worth of bandwidth to share between all wireless users.

Long term I would like to install an 802.11N access point. This should give us more wifi bandwidth. There are some things we can do to help in the short term though. There are two access points at the space. One in the 5.8ghz A band and one in the 2.4ghz band. If your laptop has support for 802.11A networks please use that one. This should help balance out the load on the AP.

As for the 802.11N access point I would love to get one of these for the space.

I am willing to kick in 20 bucks for the cause to get this bought, any one else?  Its 180 dollars on NewEgg.

(And now a word from our treasurer….If you would like to contribute, click the PayPal link below.  Or, if you’d like to get signed up for your own Venmo account and make fee-free payments to Unallocated Space and any of your friends with a smartphone, just e-mail finance@unallocatedspace.org and we’ll invite you…and politely accept your money.)


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Kit Build Night II: Arduino Uno!

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Nick Farr

On Friday, September 23 at 7 PM, we’ll have our first Arduino Kit Build!  We’re going to be using the Arduino Uno kit from SparkFun

If you’re you have a remote interest in hardware hacking, this is the kit you want to have.  It’s great for beginners to learn and powerful enough to do a lot of nifty hardware projects.

Normally, the kit runs around $30 (including shipping), but we’re offering it for only $20, and having a class where we’ll show you the basics of Arduino absolutely free.  If you have your own kit, come on down and join in the fun.  If you don’t, buy one now!  (If you’re broke, we’ll have a few extras to play with at the space too.)

We’ve also got a lot of other great ideas coming up. Add to our wiki!

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