2600 Australia

Every day, bits and bytes representing billions of dollars are sent around the world. This talk looks at some of the networks and protocols used for electronic funds transfer in Australia, especially the ATM/EFTPOS/Credit Card networks and the Bulk Electronic Clearing Stream, used for direct debits and direct deposits.

Technion discusses his 'lite' encryption package, along with its underlying cryptographic algorithms and a person's best hope at cracking them.

Why it's important and why it's effective. A discussion on a standardised approach to infosec in Australian organisations and how it deals with contemporary threats.

Demonstrating and discussing the many facets of Packet radio, including AX.25 routing, BBS's, wormholes, and APRS - the amateur position reporting system, a GPS/Packet radio hybrid.

If you're an admin of a small-medium sized TCP/IP network, you probably don't use the Border Gateway Protocol at the moment, but what if your network begins to grow and you find yourself having to deal with multiple network links between autonomous systems, some potentially costing more than others? This crash-course will give you some idea of what you're up against.

Adam has covered the topic of data recovery on fixed media such as hard drives in previous seminars, but how do the tools and practices differ when we are working with tape-based media?

With industry and recreational experience in this and related fields, larpy will give an introduction to packet radio communications, discussing licensing, limitations, equipment and other relevant details.

If you're interested in TCP/IP and some of the things you can do with it using packet capture and packet construction tools such as libpcap and libnet, this session is for you. doe will introduce, discuss and demonstrate a tool he has created that, as he says "pokes TCP and IP where they feel good"

The veteran of 2 previous seminars (see below), Shaun will cover the topic of working out what programs are doing when you don't (readily) have access to the source. He will demonstrate several tools that are useful for this, including strings, nm, objdump, readelf, strace, ltrace and gdb.

black-hand's talk on Web Application Security focuses on short comings of modern e-commerce sites and environments. Secure web development is often overlooked becuase of budget and time constraints, leaving holes open and exposing new avenues of exploitation.

Kayjay gives an overview of HP PA-RISC (Hewlett Packard) architecture and related hardware from the old and the small, to the latest and the biggest.

Ever since the first use of buffer overflows to exploit systems with the Morris worms, they have been a major point of software weakness and common programmer mispractice. Shaun explains the details behind buffer overflows, what they are and how they can be used to exploit a program to escalate privileges.