[lug] Fwd: November FRUUG newsletter and meeting announcement

[Jeffrey Haemer]

If you missed Ben's BLUG talk, or want to hear it again, you can see and
hear him next Thursday at FRUUG.

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From: <fruug-request at talisman.com>
Date: Nov 8, 2007 5:41 PM
Subject: November FRUUG newsletter and meeting announcement
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November 2007 Newsletter of the
Front Range UNIX Users Group
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Cndnsd Vrsn: 4:00PM Thursday 11/15 -- Web App Security
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Contents:
   * This Month's Meeting
   * About the Speaker
   * Meeting Location
   * Our Last Meeting
   * Books, Books, Books
   * Library Notes
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Developing Secure Web Applications

The next meeting of the Front Range UNIX Users Group (FRUUG) will be at
4:00 PM on Thursday, November 15 in the Main Seminar Room at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder.  More details are in
Meeting Location (below).

Today's Web applications protect ever-more sensitive data.  Commonly, sites
ask for social security numbers, credit card numbers, financial account
information, health history, and more.  With an increasing focus on fast
turnaround and new features, developers seldom have time to focus on this
critical, overlooked aspect of application development.

Ben Whaley of Applied Trust Engineering  will explore some of the common
security vulnerabilities surrounding Web applications and how to mitigate
them.  His presentation will include some live demonstrations of some of
the common vulnerabilities in Web applications.

About The Speaker

Ben Whaley is a senior engineer at Applied Trust Engineering.  He holds a
degree in computer science from the University of Colorado, is a Red Hat
Certified Engineer and a Certified Information Systems Security
Professional,
and contributed several chapters to the Linux Administration Handbook,
2nd edition.
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Meeting Location

This meeting will be held in the Main Seminar Room at NCAR's Mesa Lab.
The address is 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder 80303, though it's amazingly
simple to find: take Table Mesa Drive in Boulder west until you can't go
any farther.  (access from US 36, Broadway, or Foothills Parkway).  For a
map, visit www.ucar.edu/org/mesalabmap.shtml.

Come early to enjoy the stunning views or take a walk on the trails
immediately to the west of the building.

For the meeting, come in the main entrance and sign in at the front
desk, where they will be expecting a number of us visiting.
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Our Last Meeting

At our last meeting, Sam Falkner of Sun Microsystems discussed Parallel
NFS (pNFS), an enhancement to NFS to allow multiple, parallel data streams
to different NFS servers.

Announcements, presentation slides, and writeups for past meetings are
available in the FRUUG Meeting Archive at:
www.fruug.org/mtgarchive/index.html.
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Books, Books, Books

As you may have noticed, our meeting frequency is erratic, but we still
continue to receive review copies of books from our publisher friends.  This
has caused our book cart to overflow, so to make room for the new titles
we're getting in, we're going to give away the "old" titles that are
currently on the cart.

This meeting we'll be bringing a box of security-related titles on topics
ranging from wireless network security to firewall configuration.  There
will be enough books that virtually everyone who attends should be able to
grab a title of interest.
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FRUUG Library Notes

Until we settle into a permanent home (and NCAR may be that home), we'll
only be bringing our new FRUUG library titles to each meeting.  Learn how
you can review a book and keep it through our FRUUG Library Merit Badge
program.

Our publisher friends have some exciting news: Addison Wesley and
O'Reilly (and their associated imprints) are now offering a user group
discount of 35 percent, see our library discounts page for details.

We haven't received any books specifically for this meeting, so we'll
bring a selection of FRUUG library books related to this meeting's topic.

You may check out books using your business card as your library card;
you must be on the membership list to check books out. Books are due at
the meeting following the one in which they are checked out.

Remember that your FRUUG membership entitles you to up to 35 percent
discounts on your book orders from Addison Wesley/Prentice Hall,
IBM Press, O'Reilly Media, New Riders, No Starch, Paraglyph,
PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Sams Publishing, SitePoint,
and Syngress; refer to the FRUUG Web site library page for details.
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FRUUG CONTACTS

The FRUUG "Executive Committee" is currently:
  * Tom Cargill (303 499-5940), .profile Consulting
  * Mark Carlson (303 448-0048), Sun Microsystems
  * Barb Dijker (303 938-0188), Netrack
  * Dick Dunn, Talisman Farm
  * Sam Falkner, Sun Microsystems
  * Steve Gaede (303 444-9114), Lone Eagle Systems, Inc
  * Carol Meier (303 499-5940), .profile Consulting
  * Neal McBurnett, Internet2
  * Bill Meine, Sun Microsystems
  * Joe VanAndel (303 497-2071), NCAR
  * Wally Wedel
  * Lisa Week, Sun Microsystems

Visit the FRUUG Web site at http://www.fruug.org.

If you wish to update your contact information, click on "join FRUUG" and
fill out a new member form. Select "Address Change Request."

If there are comments you'd like to send to the entire executive committee,
you can reach us with the address: feedback at fruug.org.



-- 
Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
720-837-8908 [cell]
http://goyishekop.blogspot.com
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