ILUG-Cochin

April 2013 Meeting Details

ananthan — Fri, 03 May 2013 05:41:04 +0000

The meeting of the “Indian Libre User Group” was successfully held on April 28th 2013

Date: 28-04-2013

Time: 2:00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor,
AMI Trust Building,Broadway Enclave,
Broadway, Ernakulam

2.30pm – 2.45pm

Customary Self Introduction. People shared their experience with Free Software

2.45pm – 4.30pm – Session by Anu Bhaskar

OpenVZ is container-based virtualization for Linux. OpenVZ creates multiple secure, isolated Linux containers (otherwise known as VEs or VPSs) on a single physical server enabling better server utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each container performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; a container can be rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications, system libraries and configuration files.

OpenVZ software consists of an optional custom Linux kernel and command-line tools (mainly vzctl). Kernel developers work hard to merge containers functionality into the upstream Linux kernel, making OpenVZ team the biggest contributor to Linux Containers (LXC) kernel, with features such as PID and network namespaces, memory controller, checkpoint-restore (see CRIU.org) and much more. OpenVZ tools (vzctl) is a solid alternative to LXC tools, see vzctl for upstream kernel for more details. While OpenVZ can be used with recent upstream kernel, we recommend using OpenVZ kernel for security, stability and features.
OpenVZ is free open source software, available under GNU GPL.

4.30pm – 4.45pm

Tea break

Concluding Session

People were requested to handle small technical discussions for the next meeting.

Thanks to all the attendees for coming and they are requested to put their feedback on the mailing list so that we can improve future meetings

The next user meet is on 26th May 2013

ILUG-Cochin Meeting on 28th April 2013

ananthan — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:47:23 +0000

Warm Greetings To The Free Software Community

Indian Libre User Group is spreading Free Software awareness in society through its regular monthly meetings ( 4th Sunday of every month ),conducted since 1997. ILUG Cochin (www.ilug-cochin.org) is holding its regular meeting for this month on Sunday, 28th April 2013.

The Details are as follows

Date : 28/04/2013, 28th April, Sunday

Time : 2pm – 5:30pm

Venue : Internet Club
IInd Floor, AMI Trust Bldg,
Broadway Enclave, Broadway,
Kochi-682031
Location: Behind Allappat Super Shoppe,On top of SBT Treasury wing

Meeting Schedule
================
1. Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement
2. Agenda : Deeper into Clear Text Vulnerabilities
3. Technical Discussions
4. Q&A Session

A Map showing the venue is available at : http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/

Directions to reach venue: http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/directions-to-meeting-venue/

Get answers to your questions about the meeting at: http://www.ilug-cochin.org/faq/

For further information contact :
Tel:+91 9447111771 – JayJacob
Tel:+91 9895068235 – Ananthan
Tel:+91 9747173432 – Sreenadh
Tel:+91 9496449969 – SanalKumar
Tel:+91 484 2374862 (Venue)
Tel:+91 484 4025077 (Venue)

Details

1. Introduction to Free Software

We start of with our regular discussion on the concepts and philosophy of the Free Software Movement and related topics.

2. Agenda : Openvz (Linux container)

OpenVZ is container-based virtualization for Linux. OpenVZ creates multiple secure, isolated Linux Containers (otherwise known as VEs or VPSs) on a single physical server enabling better server utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each container performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; a container can be rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory,
processes, files, applications, system libraries and configuration files.

3. Technical Discussions

Attendees will discuss and/or present topics of interest. They will share their knowledge by handling small sessions to make up the Technical Session part of the Meeting.

4. Q&A Session

This would be used to answer doubts that users have concerning Free Software.

We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting. Hope to meet you all on Sunday.

Thank You

Regards
Co-ordinator
Indian Libre User Group, Cochin

March 2013 Meeting Details

ananthan — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:53:36 +0000

The meeting of the “Indian Libre User Group” was successfully held on March 24th 2013

Date: 24-03-2013

Time: 2:00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor,
AMI Trust Building,Broadway Enclave,
Broadway, Ernakulam

2.30pm – 2.45pm

Customary Self Introduction. People shared their experience with Free Software

2.45pm – 4.30pm – Session by JayJacob

dSniff – Dsniff is a set of password sniffing and network traffic analysis tools written by security researcher and startup founder Dug Song to parse different application protocols and extract relevant information. dsniff, filesnarf, mailsnarf, msgsnarf, urlsnarf, and webspy passively monitor a network for interesting data (passwords, e-mail, files, etc.). arpspoof, dnsspoof, and macof facilitate the interception of network traffic normally unavailable to an attacker. The applications sniff usernames and passwords, web pages being visited, contents of email, etc. Dsniff, as the name implies, is a network sniffer, but it can also be used to disrupt the normal behavior of switched networks and cause network traffic from other hosts on the same network segment to be visible, not just traffic involving the host dsniff is running on. The name “dsniff” refers both to the package as well as an included tool. “dsniff” the tool decodes passwords sent in cleartext across a switched or unswitched Ethernet network.

ARP spoofing – is a technique whereby an attacker sends fake (“spoofed”) Address resolution Protocol (ARP) messages onto a Local Area Network. Generally, the aim is to associate the attacker’s MAC address with the IP address of another host (such as the default gateway), causing any traffic meant for that IP address to be sent to the attacker instead. ARP spoofing may allow an attacker to intercept data frames on a LAN, modify the traffic, or stop the traffic altogether. Often the attack is used as an opening for other attacks, such as denial of service, man in the middle, or session hijacking attacks.The attack can only be used on networks that make use of the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), and is limited to local network segments.

4.30pm – 4.45pm

Tea break

Concluding Session

People were requested to handle small technical discussions for the next meeting.

Thanks to all the attendees for coming and they are requested to put their feedback on the mailing list so that we can improve future meetings

The next user meet is on 28th April 2013

ILUG-Cochin Meeting on 24th March 2013

ananthan — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:31:59 +0000

Warm Greetings To The Free Software Community

The Details are as follows

Date : 24/03/2013, 24th March, Sunday

Time : 2pm – 5:30pm

Venue : Internet Club
IInd Floor, AMI Trust Bldg,
Broadway Enclave, Broadway,
Kochi-682031
Location: Behind Allappat Super Shoppe,On top of SBT Treasury wing

Meeting Schedule
================
1. Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement
2. Agenda : Deeper into Clear Text Vulnerabilities
3. Technical Discussions
4. Q&A Session

A Map showing the venue is available at : http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/

Directions to reach venue: http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/directions-to-meeting-venue/

Get answers to your questions about the meeting at: http://www.ilug-cochin.org/faq/

Details

1. Introduction to Free Software

We start of with our regular discussion on the concepts and philosophy of the Free Software Movement and related topics.

2. Agenda : Deeper into Clear Text Vulnerabilities

Clear text Vulnerabilities and how you can become a victim unsecure operating systems, web sites, how it can be exploited and the various aspects of the internet that contribute to the dangers of surfing the web
unprotected.

3. Technical Discussions

Attendees will discuss or present topics of interest. They will share their knowledge by handling small sessions to make up the Technical Session part of the Meeting.

4. Q&A Session

This would be used to answer doubts that users have concerning Free Software.

We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting. Hope to meet you all on Sunday.

Thank You

Regards
Co-ordinator
Indian Libre User Group, Cochin

February 2013 Meeting Details

ananthan — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:00:53 +0000

The meeting of the “Indian Libre User Group” was successfully held on February 24th 2013

Date: 24-02-2013

Time: 2:00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor,
AMI Trust Building,Broadway Enclave,
Broadway, Ernakulam

2.30pm – 2.45pm

Customary Self Introduction. People shared their experience with Free Software

2.45pm – 4.30pm – Session by Prasanth Sugathan

CryptoParty is a grassroots global endeavour to introduce the basics of practical cryptography such as the Tor anonymity network, key signing parties, TrueCrypt, and virtual private networks to the general public.CryptoParty has received early messages of support from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and (purportedly) AnonyOps,as well as the NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, Wikileaks central editor Heather Marsh,and Wired reporter Quinn Norton.

4.30pm – 4.45pm

Tea break

Concluding Session

People were requested to handle small technical discussions for the next meeting.

Thanks to all the attendees for coming and they are requested to put their feedback on the mailing list so that we can improve future meetings

The next user meet is on 24th March 2013

ILUG-Cochin Meeting on 24th February 2013

ananthan — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:56:54 +0000

Warm Greetings To The Free Software Community

The Details are as follows

Date : 24/02/2013, 24th February, Sunday

Time : 2pm – 5:30pm

Venue : Internet Club
IInd Floor, AMI Trust Bldg,
Broadway Enclave,Broadway,
Kochi-682031
Location: Behind Allappat Super Shoppe,On top of SBT Treasury wing

Meeting Schedule
================
1. Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement
2. Agenda : Privacy on the Internet – Cryptoparty – www.cryptoparty.org
3. Technical Discussions
4. Q&A Session

A Map showing the venue is available at : http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/

Directions to reach venue: http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/directions-to-meeting-venue/

Get answers to your questions about the meeting at: http://www.ilug-cochin.org/faq/

Details

1. Introduction to Free Software

We start of with our regular discussion on the concepts and philosophy of the Free Software Movement and related topics.

2. Agenda : Privacy on the Internet – Cryptoparty

(Software Freedom Law Centre(sflc.in) in association with ILUG-COCHIN)

Topics covered :-

Privacy on the Internet
Tor
Cookies and do -not- track
Introduction to Freedom box
Encryption for secure email communication

Please bring your computing devices and friends and join the fun!

3. Technical Discussions

Attendees will discuss and/or present topics of interest. They will share their knowledge by handling small sessions to make up the Technical Session part of the Meeting.

4. Q&A Session

This would be used to answer doubts that users have concerning Free Software.

We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting. Hope to meet you all on Sunday.

Thank You

Regards
Co-ordinator
Indian Libre User Group, Cochin

January 2013 Meeting Details

ananthan — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:51:15 +0000

The meeting of the “Indian Libre User Group” was successfully held on January 27th 2013

Date: 27-01-2013

Time: 2:00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor,
AMI Trust Building,Broadway Enclave,
Broadway, Ernakulam

2.30pm – 2.45pm

Customary Self Introduction. People shared their experience with Free Software

2.45pm – 4.30pm – Session by JayJacob

Forensics with Ext4

4.30pm – 4.45pm

Tea break

Concluding Session

People were requested to handle small technical discussions for the next meeting.

Thanks to all the attendees for coming and they are requested to put their feedback on the mailing list so that we can improve future meetings

The next user meet is on 24th February 2013

ILUG-Cochin Meeting on 27th January 2012

ananthan — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:56:41 +0000

Warm Greetings To The Free Software Community

The Details are as follows

Date : 27/01/2013, 27th January, Sunday

Time : 2pm – 5:30pm

Venue : Internet Club
IInd Floor, AMI Trust Bldg,
Broadway Enclave,Broadway,
Kochi-682031
Location: Behind Allappat Super Shoppe,On top of SBT Treasury wing

Meeting Schedule
================
1. Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement
2. Agenda : Forensics with Ext4
3. Technical Discussions
4. Q&A Session

A Map showing the venue is available at : http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/

Directions to reach venue: http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/directions-to-meeting-venue/

Get answers to your questions about the meeting at: http://www.ilug-cochin.org/faq/

Details

1. Introduction to Free Software

We start of with our regular discussion on the concepts and philosophy of the Free Software Movement and related topics.

2. Agenda : Forensics with Ext4

Finding out more about File system vulnerability detection tools to understand the file system compromises and tools, the benefits of being protected will be discussed. File system attacks can be minimised by file
system analysis & security measures.

3. Technical Discussions

Attendees will discuss and/or present topics of interest. They will share their knowledge by handling small sessions to make up the Technical Session part of the Meeting.

4. Q&A Session

This would be used to answer doubts that users have concerning Free Software.

We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting. Hope to meet you all on Sunday.

Thank You

Regards
Co-ordinator
Indian Libre User Group, Cochin

December 2012 Meeting Details

ananthan — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:21:32 +0000

The meeting of the “Indian Libre User Group” was successfully held on December 23rd 2012

Date: 23-12-2012

Time: 2:00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor,
AMI Trust Building,Broadway Enclave,
Broadway, Ernakulam

2.30pm – 2.45pm

Customary Self Introduction. People shared their experience with Free Software.

2.45pm – 3.45pm – Session by G.Venkit Subramanian

A botnet is a collection of internet-connected computers whose security defenses have been breached and control ceded to a 3rd party. Each such compromised device, known as a “bot”, is created when a computer is penetrated by software from a malware distribution; otherwise known as malicious software. The controller of a botnet is able to direct the activities of these compromised computers through communication channels formed by standards-based network protocols such as IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol).

Types of attacks

1. In distributed denial-of-service attacks, multiple systems submit as many requests as possible to a single Internet computer or service, overloading it and preventing it from servicing legitimate requests. An example is an attack on a victim’s phone number. The victim is bombarded with phone calls by the bots, attempting to connect to the internet.

2. Adware advertises a commercial offering actively and without the user’s permission or awareness, for example by replacing banner ads on web pages with those of another advertiser.

3. Spyware is software which sends information to its creators about a user’s activities – typically passwords, credit card numbers and other information that can be sold on the black market. Compromised machines that are located within a corporate network can be worth more to the bot herder, as they can often gain access to confidential corporate information. Several targeted attacks on large corporations aimed to steal sensitive information, such as the Aurora botnet.

4. E-mail spam are e-mail messages disguised as messages from people, but are either advertising,annoying, or malicious.

5. Click fraud occurs when the user’s computer visits websites without the user’s awareness to create false web traffic for personal or commercial gain.

6. Brute-forcing remote machines services such as FTP, SMTP and SSH.

Countermeasures

The geographic dispersal of botnets means that each recruit must be individually identified/corralled/repaired and limits the benefits of filtering. Passive OS fingerprinting can identify attacks: network administrators can configure newer firewall equipment to take action on a botnet attack by using information obtained from passive OS fingerprinting. The most serious preventive measures use rate-based intrusion prevention systems using specialized hardware. A network based intrusion detection system (NIDS) can be effective. NIDS monitors a network: it sees a protected host in terms of external interfaces to the rest of the network, rather than as a single system, and gets results by network packet analysis.

3.45pm – 4.30pm- Session by Joseph John

Alfresco is a Free/Libre enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. Alfresco comes in three flavors. Alfresco Community Edition is free software, LGPL licensed open source and open standards. Alfresco Enterprise Edition is commercially & proprietary licensed open source, open standards and enterprise scale. Its design is geared towards users who require a high degree of modularity and scalable performance. Alfresco Cloud Edition (Alfresco in the cloud) is the SaaS version of Alfresco.

Features

Alfresco is capable of the following:

1.Document Management
2.Web Content Management (including full webapp & session virtualization)
3.Repository-level versioning (similar to Subversion)
4.Transparent overlays (similar to unionfs)
5.Records Management, including 5015.2 certification
6.Image Management
7.Learning Content Management support for Learning Management Systems (e.g. Moodle)
8.LOR Learning Object Repository (edu-sharing)
9.Auto-generated XForms with AJAX support
10.Integrated Publishing
11.Repository access via CIFS/SMB, FTP, WebDAV, NFS and CMIS
12.Activities workflow
13.Lucene search
14.Federated servers
15.Multi-language support
16.Portable application packaging
17.Multi-platform support (officially Windows, GNU/Linux and Solaris)
18.Browser-based GUI (official support for Internet Explorer and Firefox)
19.Desktop integration with Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice.
20.Clustering support

4.30pm – 5.30pm – Session by Sooraj

Sooraj shared his experience with free software and photography related tools coming with special reference to Phatch, hugin, some Raw Processing tools, GIMP and its plugins.

Concluding Session

People were requested to handle small technical discussions for the next meeting.

Thanks to all the attendees for coming and they are requested to put their feedback on the mailing list so that we can improve future meetings

The next user meet is on 27th January 2013

ILUG-Cochin Meeting on 23rd December 2012

ananthan — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 06:54:37 +0000

Warm Greetings To The Free Software Community

Indian Libre User Group is spreading Free Software awareness in society through its regular monthly meetings ( 4th Sunday of every month ), conducted since 1997. ILUG Cochin (www.ilug-cochin.org) is holding its regular meeting for this month on Sunday, 23rd December 2012.

The Details are as follows

Date : 23/12/2012, 23rd December, Sunday

Time : 2pm – 5:30pm

Venue : Internet Club,
IInd Floor, AMI Trust Bldg,
Broadway Enclave, Broadway,
Kochi-682031
Location: Behind Allappat Super Shoppe,On top of SBT Treasury wing

Meeting Schedule
================

1. Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement
2. Agenda : Botnets
3. Technical Session : Alfresco (Live demo,bring laptop with 64 bit GNU/Linux OS for in depth technical implementation)
4. Special Session : Free software and photography (Phatch, hugin, some Raw Processing tools, GIMP and its plugins)

A Map showing the venue is available at : http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/

Directions to reach venue: http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/directions-to-meeting-venue/

Get answers to your questions about the meeting at:http://www.ilug-cochin.org/faq/

For further information contact :

Tel:+91 9447111771 – JayJacob
Tel:+91 9895068235 – Ananthan
Tel:+91 9747173432 – Sreenadh
Tel:+91 9496449969 – SanalKumar
Tel:+91 484 2374862 (Venue)
Tel:+91 484 4025077 (Venue)

Details

1. Introduction to Free Software

We start of with our regular discussion on the concepts and philosophy of the Free Software Movement and related topics.

2. Agenda : Botnets

How to stop botnet attacks by 3rd parties, there by securing ourselves from having been breached and ceding control to the 3rd party, thereby allowing the 3rd party not to utilise our system for damaging and
dangerous purposes.

3. Technical Session : Alfresco as DM

Different Free & Open Source and proprietary Document Management System
Alfresco reason for my choice
Installation prerequisite
Installation (Live demo)
Administration and Configuration (Live demo)
Configuration for CIFS
Configuration for IMAP (Drag and Drop email from Mail Clients to DM)
Work flow eg in which you can integrate Alfresco with other systems

Important : Please bring a 64 bit GNU/Linux operating system installed on your laptop to participate in this workshop (Alfresco should already be installed if you use the internet for installation), if you need a 64 bit GNU/Linux operating system, let us know in advance, so that we can plan for it.

4. Free software and Photography

Some experiences with free software and photography related tools coming with special reference to Phatch, hugin, some Raw Processing tools, GIMP and its plugins.

We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting. Hope to meet you all on Sunday.

Thank You

Regards
Co-ordinator
Indian Libre User Group, Cochin