Nate Kowahl has volunteered our first talk in the MatLab data crunching series. Big data is upon us. This means munging that data set of yours is going to be an ever increasing important part of your geek life (if it isn’t already).

Nate will describe the processes he uses, from data import/parse, to classification/performance validation, using Matlab. He’ll cover the basic data types and tools in Matlab while touching on data cleanup, feature selection, classification, and cross validation. Most of this talk will be high level, leaving specifics up for discussion as needed.

RSVP on Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/dynamic/events/89272272/

When: Thursday, November 29 @ 7pm

Where: HI Capacity - 307a Kamani Street, Honolulu, HI (map)

The talk is titled Attack Methodologies for Overlooked Security Mistakes and will cover common mistakes that weaken our security posture. From patching overlooked applications to securing Windows passwords, Tony will discuss mitigation techniques as well as a look into the methodologies used by attackers to exploit these vulnerabilities such as local exploits via spear-phishing and SNMP enumeration. There will be a discussion afterward. There will also be some free snacks!

The talk will be held on 28 November 2012, 6:00pm (doors open at 5:30)

Register on: http://www.cyber50.org/attack-methodologies

Address:

Referentia Systems Incorporated

Cyber Collaboration Center

155 Kapalulu Place, Suite 200

Honolulu, HI 96819

Here’s the map for directions and parking:

http://www.cyber50.org/map/Referentia%20Map%20-%20155%20Kapalulu%20Place%20-%20Event%20Entrance.pdf

I hope to see you there,

Jason

EDIT: The event was originally posted as being on Tuesday November 28. The date is correct but the day of the week has been amended to WEDNESDAY.

Ever wonder what’s going on under the hood of your internet-connected devices? Like, how browsers talk to web servers? Shu Chen will spend an evening showing us the ins and outs of the HTTP protocol. This sessions is sure to enlighten and amuse the hacker in all of us.

RSVP on Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/dynamic/events/89262592/

When: Thursday, November 15 @ 7pm

Where: HI Capacity - 307a Kamani Street, Honolulu, HI (map)