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ABLEconf 2012 Call for Participation

The annual Arizona Business Liberty Experience Conference (ABLEconf) brings together technology experts and business leaders to discuss how open technologies can help transform Arizona businesses. It is a meeting place where innovative companies can discuss how they have benefited from open source technologies, and where technology experts can gain real-world feedback from business leaders on their latest projects. Previous attendees and presenters represent a wide array of backgrounds, including:
http://www.ableconf.com/

SCaLE's 10x call for proposals is closing Thursday. There is a bit of effort required for speaker registration, so don't wait until Thursday night to start.

Note that SCaLE 10x is a litte earlier in the year than past SCaLE conferences as it's now in January.

SCaLE 10x: January 20-22, 2012 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel.

The ABLEconf call for participation is open. We're looking for technology experts and business leaders to discuss how open technologies can help transform Arizona businesses.

This year we're allowing tutorials, panels, labs and hackfests in addition to presentations. Submit something interesting.

Early bird deadline is 2011Nov20.

For its 10th anniversary SCaLE is running an art contest. The winner gets a free trip, including airfare within the continental US, to Los Angeles for SCaLE 10x.

Look to SCaLE's page on the contest for details.

SCalE 10x is 2012Jan20-22.

Topic: A physical demonstration using a powerbook g3 (powerpc based) with Vinux, a remastered version of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux Distribution optimised for visually impaired users.
Presenter: Eric

When: Fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: DeVry University / Keller Graduate School of Management
Address: 6751 W Sunset Blvd, Glendale, AZ 85305

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There is an Arizona BoF Saturday night at SCaLE 9x. We will meet in Los Angeles C at 19:00 after der.hans' Moodle GIFT Question Format presentation.

The conference reception and weakest-geek show start at 19:30.

Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Third Saturday of every month in Chandler at Ganglplankhq.com.

David Huerta will be showcasing hayst.ac - his Firefox Security Plugin; but one of the many projects under the Haystack Project.

Saturday 19th of January, 2011, Hamachi network hackfest:
DO NOT CONNECT TO THIS NETWORK UNLESS YOU ARE CERTAIN OF YOUR SECURITY!
hackfest password = trustme
Hackfest ends on Sunday at 22:00. Have fun!

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Exploit Engineer Wanted: Get Paid for Open Source
After the incredible success of the Metasploit Express and Metasploit Pro product launches last year, we are happy to announce a new position on the Rapid7 Metasploit team. Effective immediately, we are seeking a self-driven Exploit Engineer to join the team of full-time Metasploit developers.

Job duties include researching vulnerabilities and writing exploit code in the form of Metasploit modules (Ruby). Exploit modules will be released to the public under the BSD open source license.

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CLOUD Targets/Rapid7 Scanner Presented

Steven Kaplan, MSC, BSEE, CISSP, CISA, (Senior Cyber Security Analyst, DOE Palo Verde Nuclear Facility) will be presenting a full blown (licensed) version of Rapid 7, while letting us bust his cloud.

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Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Forth Saturday of every month in Chandler at Ganglplankhq.com. This interactive lab and presentation format covers industry news, specific protection issues in linux, ongoing industry tool development, RFC scripts, exploits & net neutrality.

Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of security testing are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our powerful Penguin perspectives.

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Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Forth Saturday of every month in Chandler at Ganglplankhq.com. This interactive lab and presentation format covers industry news, specific protection issues in linux, ongoing industry tool development, RFC scripts, exploits & net neutrality.

Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of security testing are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our powerful Penguin perspectives.

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Senior Software Developer

Liquid Web Inc. is looking for an experienced Perl developer with system level development experience or strong system administration knowledge to help develop new hosting products. Job duties will include working with System Engineers to develop new software, and integrating these products into existing systems, such as Billing, Helpdesk, and Monitoring. The successful candidate will be able to write clean and modular code, communicate effectively with team members as project requirements evolve, and produce software that delivers end results.

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Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Third Saturday of every month in Chandler at Gangplankhq.com.

March 12, 2011 is CableModem SBHACKER demonstration Lab.

Bring your 5101, 5100, or 6100 Series Motorola Modems for us to revive with a fine linux test distribution/stack?

Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of security testing are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our lofty Penguin perspectives.

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David Huerta will be showcasing hayst.ac - his Firefox Security Plugin; but one of the many projects under the Haystack Project:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haystack_%28MIT_project%29#External_links

After arriving in Arizona from the posh, cosmopolitan enclave of
southeastern Idaho, David founded the DeVry Linux User Group (DeLUG)
in 2003, an originally student organization that drew members and
activities from the greater West Valley Free software community,
including students at GCC and ASU West. He is also the founder of

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Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Forth Saturday of every month in Chandler at Ganglplankhq.com. This interactive lab and presentation format covers industry news, specific protection issues in linux, ongoing industry tool development, RFC scripts, exploits and net neutrality.

Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of security testing are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our powerful Penguin perspectives.

read more

Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Forth Saturday of every month in Chandler at Ganglplankhq.com. This interactive lab and presentation format covers industry news, specific protection issues in linux, ongoing industry tool development, RFC scripts, exploits and net neutrality.

Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of security testing are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our powerful Penguin perspectives.

read more

Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Forth Saturday of every month in Chandler at Ganglplankhq.com. This interactive lab and presentation format covers industry news, specific protection issues in linux, ongoing industry tool development, RFC scripts, exploits and net neutrality.

Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of security testing are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our powerful Penguin perspectives.

read more

Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Forth Saturday of every month in Chandler at Ganglplankhq.com. This interactive lab and presentation format covers industry news, specific protection issues in linux, ongoing industry tool development, RFC scripts, exploits and net neutrality.

Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of security testing are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our powerful Penguin perspectives.

read more

Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Forth Saturday of every month in Chandler at Ganglplankhq.com. This interactive lab and presentation format covers industry news, specific protection issues in linux, ongoing industry tool development, RFC scripts, exploits and net neutrality.

Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of security testing are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our powerful Penguin perspectives.

read more

Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Forth Saturday of every month in Chandler at Ganglplankhq.com. This interactive lab and presentation format covers industry news, specific protection issues in linux, ongoing industry tool development, RFC scripts, exploits and net neutrality.

Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of security testing are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our powerful Penguin perspectives.

read more