HackMiami member Alexander Heid was recently quoted in MIT’s Technology Review about the Zeus trojan and anti-virus evasion.

(Technology Review) – Even the basic Zeus kits include obfuscation techniques to help escape detection by antivirus software and other security measures. In one experiment, consultant Alex Heid of Information Security Services found that only about half of antivirus software detected a known Zeus payload. After employing some simple techniques for masking the code, the detection rate dropped even further, to 10 percent. “The cybercrime technologies are advancing faster than the security technologies,” Heid says. Full article

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24641/page1/

Join us for an afternoon of espionage and intrigue.

HackMiami is proud to present “Hacking Terrorist Networks.”

The presentation will touch on multiple aspects of forensics, encryption, hacking methodology, and discuss how they relate to the tracking of extremists.

The presenter has several years of experience in this very unique field, and has put together one of the world’s largest open source databases of extremist multimedia.

After the presentation there will be open discussions regarding the latest trends in hacking, cracking, reverse engineering, lockpicking, and more!

Everyone is welcome, n00bz and 1337z alike!

***!!!!!!****!****!!!!! VENUE CHANGE !!!!!****!****!!!!!!***

We outgrew the space at FIU and now we have a new location at Pizza Mansion… we can have one thing here that we couldn’t have at FIU…. BEER!!!!!!

Pizza + Beer + Hacking = WIN

The new venue is about 10 minutes away from the school, so it’s not that big of a geographic change at all, hope to see everyone there!

Febuary 27th, 2010
1pm – 6pm
Pizza Mansion
6917 west flagler st.
Miami, FL 33134

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=349512404446

HackMiami won 3rd place at Shmoocon’s Ghost in the Shell Code hacking contest. It was a CTF style game that incorporated multiple aspects of hacking methodology. Good work!

Unfortunately we had to drive back to Miami early Sunday morning and we missed the closing ceremonies.

Here is a link to the complete video of the closing ceremonies, HackMiami is mentioned at 18:00.

Also, congrats to Things (2nd place) and Mobile Disco (1st place)!

Join us for an afternoon of h4×0ring!!!!!!!

At 1:30pm we will have a presentation by Alexander Heid entitled “Tools of the Underground.” The presentation will focus on the tools and methodologies of the cybercrime underground, including information about the Zeus trojan, shell scripts, exploit kits, and more.

Alexander Heid is a local security researcher, vulnerability analyst, board member of South Florida OWASP, and board member of HackMiami.

Afterwards, we will also be featuring a presentation by Peter Greko entitled “Maintaining Access on Compromised LAMP Servers.” The presentation will focus on the concepts of backdoors and injections used by malicious actors to keep stealth access on compromised servers.

Peter Greko is a local security researcher, application analyst, and board member of HackMiami.

After the presentations we will have a lab where we will be hacking, cracking, as well as the usual bouts of malware reverse engineering, lockpicking, and more.

Everyone is welcome, n00bz and 1337z alike!

February 13, 2010
1pm – 6pm
Florida International University – ECS 280 (Engineering & Computer Science Building Room 280)
11200 SW 8th Street
Miami, FL

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=332033121351

At 3pm we will have a presentation by Christopher Triana on using DD-WRT & OpenWRT to hack router firmware. The presentation will focus on uses, modification, and exploitation of misconfigurations. Christopher Triana is a local security researcher and member of HackMiami.

Afterwards, we will also be featuring a presentation by Peter Greko on using perl scripts to assist in wordfile creation for use in brute force dictionary attacks. Peter Greko is a local security researcher, application analyst, and member of HackMiami.

After the presentations we will have a lab where we will be hacking router firmware and installing DD-WRT & OpenWRT, as well as the usual bouts of malware reverse engineering, web app / infrastructure hacking, lockpicking, and more.

Everyone is welcome, n00bz and 1337z alike!

January 30, 2010
1pm – 6pm
Florida International University – ECS 280
11200 SW 8th Street
Miami, FL

Want to learn how to communicate after doomsday?
Then pick up the latest copy of 2600 (Autumn ‘09)

This Saturday we will get together for an afternoon of educative destruction where we will be disassembling old or busted electronics and salvaging parts for new projects (and as a side effect, learning a bit more about how these things are put together).

You don’t need to bring anything, we will provide soldering irons, desoldering copper braids, and plenty of stuff to take apart. That said, if you have old busted electronics that you would like to get
rid of, feel free to bring them with you. In the past we have taken apart CD drives, routers, VCRs, printers, scanners, and even a belt sander.

We will also be having a presentation on Windows 7 Security by Jorge Orchilles at the beginning of the afternoon.

As always, you can just work on your projects, read, study, or just hang out.

The details:

WHERE: FIU (University Park Campus), ECS 280
WHEN: Saturday, September 5
TIME: 1 – 6 PM

As a result of last Saturday’s Hack-a-Thon, Latrokles finished up the first version of his speech recognition and synthesis library for openFrameworks. As a wrapper around the speech APIs in OS X, it only works on the mac at the moment, but there are plans to begin porting the same functionality over to windows and linux. There is also future functionality in the pipeline.

The lib could be used without openFrameworks with minimal tweaking, in the future there will be no tweaking necessary to use with or without oF.

Here’s a short video showing some of the library functionality.

oF + Mac Speech = ofxSpeech from latrokles on Vimeo

Today is world Scratch Day. Scratch is a project from the MIT Media Lab, a programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, games, animation, etc. It was designed to get kids involved in programming and to teach them the fundamental ideas behind computation and mathematics while allowing them to play around and work creatively. For more information, visit scratch.mit.edu

Jeremy Conn created, with in a matter of minutes, a full fledged pong game using Scratch with collision detection, score keeping, and a simple AI. 

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