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In Nov 2011 we left a pinhole camera taped to the drain pipe in TOG’s yard looking south. So its been up for 4 months. It’s just a beer can with a 1mm hole and a piece of b+w photo paper inside. We took it down today and scanned it in. The raw image is upside down and back to front. The “colours” are also inverted. You can see the track of the sun and how it gets higher in the sky, as the days get longer.  The gaps are days where there was no sun. After a bit of trickery in GIMP, its right way around and inverted. We have lots of photo paper in TOG if you want to come in and make one. You can leave it in place from days to months and still get a good image. Click on the images for a closer view.

 

TOG is delighted to be taking part in this year’s St Patrick’s Festival. The St Patrick’s Festival is a 4 day event with different activities taking part all over Dublin. We will be taking part in the Big Day Out.

The Big Day Out takes place on the 18th of March. One of the flag ship events of the festival, it aims to amaze you with street performances, theatrics, Irish language events, workshops, fun zones, music, open air shows and more.

The event takes place in Merrion Square, 12:00 until 18:00. The event is free and open to all ages.

TOG will be making a home for itsself in the Discover Science & Engineering area. We will be helping to promote the upcoming Dublin Mini Maker Faire.(Open call ends this week)  TOG along with NUIM Makers Club and robots.ie will be putting together a fun and interactive stand. On the day we will have sumo fighting robots, arduino powered  instruments , 3D printing  and our freshly made buzzer game.

On Wednesday the 14th of March from 19:30 – 22:00, we are going to demo Security Shepherd to the public.

Security Shepherd is a 4th year project created by DIT Student Mark Denihan. The purpose of this application is to educate people about Web Application Security. It involves a series of levels that each user works their way through. Each level has information about the type of attack that a user reads before attempting the attack. Previously DIT students have had a chance to work through the levels, I think it would be a great evening to see how many levels we can get through. I have played it myself and it is a good challenge.

Required for this night is :
Your own laptop, Firefox, Java 6 JRE, BurpSuite (free version).

Attendees of all levels should attend. Mark and myself will be on-hand to give extra tip’s and explanations if required.

 

Continue reading “Security Series: Security Shepherd CTF”

Due to a huge interest of this talk, it is currently waiting list only now. I will review number of seats/tables for each event at the weekend. Still book a place as places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. I am also considering running the same talk on a 2nd date too. Stay Tuned!

Title: Introduction to Security
Date: Thursday 16th of February 2012
Time: 19.30 – 21:00
Venue: TOG
Cost: Free
Limited to 30 places.

Title Wireless (WiFi) Security Workshop
Date: Saturday 10th of March 2012
Time: 13.00 – 17:00
Cost : Free
Limited to 14 places

 

I will give a talk titled “Introduction to IT Security”. Many people are interested in the area or see it as the great unknown. This will be the beginning of a series of talks that will take place in TOG covering the area of IT Security and all it’s ups and downs.

I will also be running a Wireless Security Workshop where I will set up wireless networks to be attacked and go through the process of doing so as well as explaining the reasons why the attack works.

Continue reading “Security Talk Series: Introduction to IT Security and Wireless Security Workshop”

The Irish Government is planning on disposing of it’s eVoting machines and is seeking tenders. Various members of TOG are interested in this, and seeing if we can get some eVoting machines, so we’re going to have a meeting/discussion/brainstorming session in the space at 9pm Saturday 4th February.

If you’re interested in this topic, please come along!