On 3/13/2010, HackMiami will present on the methods of password cracking, the tools used to carry it out, and ways to mitigate the threat. We will touch upon online cracking, offline cracking, rainbow tables, fuzzing, wordlists, salts, hashes, and more!

We will also have a few systems with various tools running on them (wifi cracking and offline hash cracking).

Bring your (anonymized!!!!) hashes and handshakes to feed to the machines and see how they hold up. They take it with and without salt.

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!

Notice we have changed location, we are no longer at FIU… we are now at Pizza Mansion, it’s a new place that has beer and free wifi!!!

Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010
Time: 1:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: Pizza Mansion
Street: 6917 west flagler st.
City/Town: Miami, FL

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10150122161750495

(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/

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

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)!

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

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

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

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

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. 

Jeremy comparing Scratch to other graphics oriented rapid prototyping tools like Alice, Open Frameworks, and Processing.