We now have a public minecraft server up!
URL: minecraft.unallocatedspace.org
Please do not grief or abuse the server, thanks!
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Network Upgrades!
Greetings all!
If you haven’t been to the space in a while you may not have noticed the major upgrades going on at the space. We’ve been hard at work making some core upgrades to the network that will make us more capable of handling network pen testing, hosting files for talks, and hosting services on the Internet.
- VLANs! No professional network is complete without VLAN capability, and we’re delivering. This will enable us to segment portions of the network to allow people to openly pen test without reaching other network subnets and disrupting people working on other projects.
- IPv6! We are now fully dual stack IPv4/IPv6 across all networks in the space. You shouldn’t notice any difference other than some sites coming over IPv6. Feel free to come and ask questions.
- DMZ! We will now be able to host long awaited game servers on the external internet. First up? MINECRAFT! We will be hosting our own Minecraft server by the end of the week. Stay-tuned.
Future expansions include:
- Upgraded PBX system via SIP and Google Voice. Major PBX plans coming soon.
- SVN/GIT Support. We’ll be migrating all of our space coding projects to a GIT or SVN system.
- File Server! We’ll very soon have an internal file server for space storage.
- SpaceNet support - http://spacefed.net/wiki/index.php/Spacenet
- “The Labs” – VMWare-based lab servers for pen testing, exploit testing, and general experimentation.
Stay tuned for more info on each of these. If you would like to get involved, feel free to drop by during our Open House nights.
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Test out your talks at the next UAS Soiree
Submitting CFPs to conferences can be frustrating, especially with new talks. Do you want to see if the talk works or just practice it? Trying to give a talk for the first time? At the UAS Soiree AKA Textile’s Sewer, you can give any talk from 15 minutes to an hour in length.
Carrying on with the idea that Textile started, this is an open event forum
for anyone that wants to give a talk. What we hope is that regular attendees of this monthly event give ongoing talks at Soiree. Yes: its Fight Club for Hackers!
This current sessions speakers and topics are:
Digital Arcanist – 5 most important things in Infosec
Cryptos – Android
Cryptos – Hadoop Password Cracker
Matt – What Sound is good?
Lewis/Walt – Theramin
Outrayjus – Brewing
Open Discussion – Do’s and Dont’s of new hackerspaces
Infosec book club
Please register for this event: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3142239523
If you know anyone that would be interested in giving a talk in future
sessions, please have them contact Forgotten.
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Open House Night!
Unallocated Space now has an official weekly Open House night for people to come and check out the space. We will do our best to have the space open on this night so feel free to drop by and get to know everyone.
Open House: 7:00PM on Wednesdays
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The Hacker Carnival at Annapolis Junction
Tomorrow from 300PM until 800PM Raytheon will be putting on a recruiting event dubbed Hacker Carnival! It will feature a mini-CTF and other fun hackery types of events including lockpicking! Make sure you stop on by and test your skills.
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Code Hero goodness here at Unallocated Space
I ran across a great project on Kickstarter yesterday called Code Hero. From the page:
Code Hero is a game that teaches you how to make games so you can learn to code while you play with a Code Gun that shoots Javascript in Unity 3D!
Created by Alex Peake and his lads at Primer Labs, Code Hero is basically a game that can turn you into a game programmer! Becoming a backer for as little as 1 dollar (yes you read that right) gets you access to the beta. Download, login and away you go grok!
One thing that really jumps out at me about this project is the hacker ethic that drives it. It is a project that is created by hackers, promotes hackerspaces and, in essence is really all about creating more hackers. The world needs that: More hackers.
I commend Alex Peake and the whole Primer Labs crew on a great project with a truly inspiring goal: create more hackers. Make sure you visit the Kickstarter page and become a backer. Now.
Hack The Planet
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World IPv6 Launch Day and UAS’ IPv6 Transition
Hey everyone!
In preparation for World IP Launch Day (http://www.worldipv6launch.org/), Unallocated Space has begun its migration of core network services to a dual stack infrastructure. What this means is that we will have simultaneous access to both the IPv4 and IPv6 internet.
This transition will not just be about moving the network over. Our core services will be available over both protocols. This is obviously going to take some time as it involves script and coding updates where necessary.
I encourage everyone to come down to the space sometime in the coming months to see how the transition is coming along. Hopefully sometime by the end of the next month we will have our network infrastructure migrated.
The transition is documented on our wiki, here: http://www.unallocatedspace.org/wiki/IPv6_Transition
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David Quigley gives an SELinux Class at Unallocated Space!
Hey Everyone,
Ever wanted to learn more about SELinux? Run into problems with it and decided not to use it again? Want to learn more about how to configure mandatory access control on your Linux boxes so they aren’t easily rooted?
Join Unallocated Space as we host David Quigley on Saturday, February 25th, 2012 @ 5:00PM where he will give us a course in all things SELinux.
Event table space is limited, so please use http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2845199067 to reserve your spot today.
Abstract
Over a decade ago, researchers at the National Information Assurance Research Lab at the National Security Agency (NSA) identified a need for flexible mandatory access controls to help provide a solid foundation for secure systems. This resulted in the development of the FLASK architecture. FLASK has been implemented in a number of operating systems, the most prominent of which is Linux under the name SELinux. Since the early days of SELinux adoption, much work as been done by the community to improve the utility and usability of SELinux. These enhancement have turned SELinux from a prototype research implementation into a robust access control mechanism that is used by a variety of customers world wide.
This tutorial is suitable for students with a broad range of experience in SELinux. The tutorial starts with the foundation concepts of SELinux allowing students to understand the new access control concepts that are provided. The tutorial then covers basic SELinux usage including: evaluating the state of an SELinux-enabled system, identifying SELinux information on system resources, and troubleshooting of basic SELinux errors.
Next, the tutorial covers troubleshooting errors with SELinux that result from non standard configurations of system services. For example, it is common to change the location that a web server serves pages from. SELinux needs to be informed of these changes to ensure that system resources are consistent with what SELinux expects. This section will also cover examples of other services which typically have non-standard configurations. Students will work through examples that address not only the issue at hand, but also expose the underlying cause. This increases the student’s understanding and allows each student to identify and resolve similar problems
Finally, the tutorial covers SELinux policy analysis and writing. As system administrators are constantly faced with deploying software created by their enterprise, understanding the SELinux security policy and how to extend it to cover in-house applications is very important. It covers basic policy development within the scope of the SELinux reference policy and how to iteratively develop an application policy while having minimal impact on
production systems.
About David
David Quigley started his career as a Computer Systems Researcher for the National Information Assurance Research Lab at the NSA where he worked as a member of the SELinux team but has since left that position. David leads the design and implementation efforts to provide Labeled-NFS support for SELinux. David has previously contributed to the open source community through maintaining the Unionfs 1.0 code base and through code contributions to various other projects. David has presented at conferences such as the Ottawa Linux Symposium, the StorageSS workshop, LinuxCon and several local Linux User Group meetings where presentation topics have included storage, file systems, and security.
David currently works as a Computer Science Professional for the Advanced Engineering and Development division at Keyw Corporation.
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