One of the advantages of a pandemic and doing everything remotely is that you don't need to travel to events organised by other, more active, LUGs.
So, if anyone is interested: via Wolverhampton LUG, a talk on password cracking and the importance of password complexity and not re-using them. See below for full info including Zoom link. Mark ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Adam Sweet <adamsw...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 13:55 Subject: [lugmaster] Talk: Adam Sweet - Password Cracking With a GPU, 17th March To: A closed discussion list for UK LUGMasters. < lugmas...@mailman.lug.org.uk> Hi guys Details for our second monthly talk below. Please adapt and share as you see fit for your list, forgive me talking about myself in the third person. Adam Sweet will be giving a talk on the evening of 17th March entitled: Password Cracking With a GPU and Why Complexity Matters This will be a demo of password cracking, how you can accelerate it using a commodity graphics card and why the issues of complexity, storage and re-use matter. Adam is a Linux sysadmin and consultant with 15 years experience. He is the organiser of Wolverhampton Linux User Group, was a presenter on the LugRadio podcast and organiser of the UKs largest annual Linux community conference LugRadio Live before founding a Linux and Open Source support and consultancy business. Please share it with any other relevant groups and on your <insert irritating flash in the pan social media here> to help us bootstrap an audience for future events. Date: Meeting starts at 19:30 GMT, Weds 17th March. The talk will start around 20:30. Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81478560717 Meeting ID: 814 7856 0717 No password required for this but guests will need to wait in the virtual lobby before being allowed in. There's a social before and after the talk so please feel free to hang around and chat. There's a Meetup link here if people want to say they're coming: https://www.meetup.com/novalug/events/276696987/ Regards, Adam Sweet Wolves LUG -- lugmaster mailing list lugmas...@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/lugmaster Email ad...@lug.org.uk for support. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER
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