The Nova-Labs Cyber Security Monthly Meeting will focus on the more technical aspects of cyber security, such as packet analysis, IDS/IPS, penetration testing, and forensics. We plan on participating in CTF events and other hands-on activities. The group is open to all skill levels.

3rd Wednesday of each Month at 7pm

List of good tools

http://www.cloudshark.org/
Wireshark
Network Miner
- Supposed 1.2 works in Mac OX and Linux via Mono, worked in Cent6.2x64
Base64 Decode or cat encoded.txt | base64 -d on most *NIX systems

List of good URLs for analysis

Good research resources

http://robtex.com/ - info on domains/ip addresses

Interesting sources of good packets

http://digitalcorpora.org/ - Source of pcap for study and learning
https://stripe.com/blog/capture-the-flag-wrap-up - Disk images and write of a CTF from March of 2012

Packet Party meetings

Not currently happening, but if you would like to host, let us know.

Previous Challenges

Defcon 2010 Challenge - http://db.tt/jIClk8SK (8.7MB)
Defconf 2011 CD - http://db.tt/M3I3TTOA (100MB)
March 2011 - http://db.tt/XHW5NXPw (850KB)