A supply chain manager with no formal CS background rekindles his endless curiosity for computers at 40 — through courses, books, piles of notes and unlimited stubbornness. Mike Herbison takes us through his journey of discovery for personal interest as well as more serious supply chain development at work, including successes and failures along the way.
Mike has been attending CUUG and sparked his long lost passion for computers while he made a career in Oilfield Services Supply Chain. He's had a blast rediscovering Unix/Linux and coding and also loves playing guitar (particularly 80's rock & metal).
707 - 5 St. S.W.
Fourth floor, Black Duck office ← NOTE LOCATION!
Parking is available one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54). Additional parking is available at The CORE and Holt Renfrew Parkades just east of the meeting location.
Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.
Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash or e-Transfer) at the door for non-CUUG members.
RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.
Tor solves a network-layer problem, but running a hidden service is a systems administration problem. This presentation will describe how onion services actually work, and the kinds of mistakes that got operators, vendors, and buyers arrested, based on what we know from court filings. These include things like VPN misconfiguration, a KYC record at an exchange, and a metadata-stripping tool that had quietly changed hands. Catching illicit behaviour is difficult, and the cases we hear about are the ones where something went wrong.
Timur is a math student at the University of Waterloo. He has been using Linux for five years and does systems and network programming.
707 - 5 St. S.W.
Fourth floor, Black Duck office ← NOTE LOCATION!
Parking is available one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54). Additional parking is available at The CORE and Holt Renfrew Parkades just east of the meeting location.
Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.
Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash or e-Transfer) at the door for non-CUUG members.
RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.
A few years ago, Roy Brander presented his perspective on the resilience of our vital infrastructure against cyber attacks. Since then, Artificial Intelligence has evolved substantially, and continues to do so at a rapid pace.
How much more worried should we be now, compared to just a few years ago?
Join us for a panel discussion with security experts in related fields. Terry Ingoldsby explains how analysis based on attack trees is just as applicable to AI-based attacks as it is to human-based attacks. Andrew Ginter considers the implications of AI-based attacks on critical operations technology. Roy Brander keeps them both honest with respect to certain key infrastructure.
Terry Ingoldsby is President of Amenaza Technologies Limited, and was a founding board member and past president of CUUG. He is the chief technical architect of the SecurITree attack tree analysis software tool. Over the past several years he has dealt with numerous high security clients in aerospace, defence and critical infrastructure environments.
Andrew Ginter is Vice President of Industrial Security at Waterfall Security Solutions. His career spanned product development for telecomms, industrial control systems, and for the last two decades, industrial cybersecurity. He has written four books on that topic, and is co-host of the Industrial Security Podcast.
Roy Brander is a CUUG Life Member and retired Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Calgary Water Resources. He has given a number of presentations to CUUG on a wide variety of subjects, including the BSDWall project, the MEPIS Linux distribution, the Titanic, management of Calgary's water mains, and the ASUS Eee PC and Moore's Law. He'll be coming to us virtually from his Vancouver condo overlooking Stanley Park.
707 - 5 St. S.W.
Third floor conference room C
Parking is available one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54). Additional parking is available at The CORE and Holt Renfrew Parkades just east of the meeting location.
Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.
Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash or e-Transfer) at the door for non-CUUG members.
RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.
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