FYI. Sounds interesting. Admission includes entry for door prizes, pizza and pop.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of caziz Sent: February 23, 2007 7:17 PM To: CUUG members; CUUG Events Subject: [CUUG] [Reminder] CUUG February 27, 2007 General Meeting Dr Aycock is knowledgable and has a wicked sense of humour. I encourage you to come out because this will be a rocking fun GM. Regards, Christopher Aziz CUUG President February General Meeting I use UNIX, so I'm Safe Forever Speaker: John Aycock Anyone feeling smug because they're using UNIX and not Windows? Get over it. I'll start by talking about some memorable moments in the history of UNIX security. Then, boot off your users: I'll tell you about a couple of ways you can be pwned <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn> that work nicely under UNIX right now. Finally, a presentation of one or two future threats we've been researching at the U of C, along with some countermeasures for them. John Aycock is an associate professor at the University of Calgary in the Department of Computer Science. He received a B.Sc. from the University of Calgary, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Victoria. He researches computer security and compilers, and conceived and taught the University's "Computer Viruses and Malware" and "Spam and Spyware" courses. A book he wrote on computer viruses and malware, cleverly titled Computer Viruses and Malware <http://www.springer.com/west/home?SGWID=4-102-22-107947644-0>, was published in 2006. W.R. Castell Central Library 616 Macleod Trail S.E. Basement meeting room 5:30 PM, Tuesday, February 27, 2007 $10 attendance fee, free for CUUG members <http://www.cuug.ab.ca/CUUGsite99mar/contact-cuug.html>. Door prizes. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
