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ResNet STC UPDATE! (Friday the 13th Edition!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Malsed)
Fri Apr 13 17:41:59 2012
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:39:17 -0400
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From: Mike Malsed <mike.malsed@CLAREMONTMCKENNA.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
It's been a week - have you been waiting breathlessly for my post? No? Why
not??? Sheesh!
Well, according to the count-down timer, we have 9 weeks, 4 days until you
are REQUIRED to come to Claremont for the 2012 Student Technology
Conference (by ResNet). Required, you say? Yes - that's what I said. You
MUST come!!!
Okay, well, if you can, we'd really love to see you! I'm being honest, really!
We just had Carla Rounds over for a site visit, to figure out what session should
go where, and to tie up little loose ends and such. She also got to visit the
dorm rooms - she's already figured out she wants top floor, north side. . .
spectacular views of 10,000 foot tall mountains; maid service; 6'10" long beds
(okay, Carla didn't care about that, but I DO!!! )
Time for our PDS spotlight! Each week I'll spotlight a different Professional
Development Seminar - these seminars are 3 or 6 hours long and are far more
in-depth than you get with a "normal" session.
This week, I spotlight a PDS that is becoming an STC tradition. One of the
most popular and technically rewarding seminars. Brandon Enright is returning
for "Advanced Windows Malware Detection and Removal."
http://www.resnetsymposium.org/resnet2012/pds/#malware-part1 - I've gone
to this one (at Western Washington) and I can tell you that the amount of
resources you get from this is immense!
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"It’s 2012 and every year since about 2002 has seen malware morph and adapt
to infect better and stay on systems longer. You don’t need to check you
Mayan calender to know the malware apocalypse is upon us. With the nearly
ubiquitous presence of Windows 7 malware has adapted to disrupt systems as
little as possible and hide in your user’s accounts as best it can.
This session is going to tear Windows apart at the seams in an effort to locate
all of the places and ways malware hides so that you have the tools to detect
and remove it. As part of that, this session is going to look at:
Processes and threads and how to spot malicious and injected code into the
memory space of normally benign programs
The process tree, how Windows manages services, and malware likes to hide in
the more obscure areas of Windows
Services, drivers, and the portions of the OS that aren’t usually under the
user’s constant watchful eye
The tools you can use to dig into the various internals of Windows to figure out
what’s good and what’s bad (Process Explorer and other tools)
If you’ve been in my sessions in the past you’ll know how broken Windows can
get. This year will take a slightly different tack and focus on malware more
heavily and less on the aftermath of broken Windows. I anticipate this session
will be the most technical session I have ever given. It isn’t for the faint of
heart."
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Wow - the most technical ever? That just means you'll get even more!
Okay, next spotlight is a bit personal for me - it's the Free-Day Activity that
I'm sponsoring (http://www.resnetsymposium.org/resnet2012/conference-
schedule/free-day-activities/#brewery). Many of us love beer - I enjoy beer for
more than just drinking it. As many know, I brew my own and have been finding
different styles and visiting many breweries here in Southern California. I
decided to organize a trip to four breweries in our area, each with a different
style or focus. We will be taking a bus from Claremont, driving down to
Temecula to vist the famous Stone Brewery and get a private tour of the
facility! After that, the bus will take us to the Lost Abbey Brewery, just a few
miles away, to see how they brew beer in the Belgian style - big bodied and
often "chewy" beers. MMMMMM - my wife and I LOVE their Serpent Stout.
Then we hit the bus again and come back north to the Packinghouse; a fairly
new craft brewery that's one of my favorites. They have a pretty fresh style,
with a blackberry stout that's amazing; a blueberry wheat beer that's
refreshing and wonderful. Our last stop will be at Hangar 24 where we are
trying to organize a tour and a barbecue!
NOTE: There is a registration cost for this that ONLY covers transportation!
Bring dinero/lucre/money for actual beer or merchandise! Typically a few-ounce
taster is a buck; a pint is typically 5 bucks or so; Pint Glasses are typically $5-
8. Unfortunately, I am not able to "bundle" packages - we have to buy what
we want at each stop. So bring plastic or paper, but it needs to be money!
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So, there are a couple more spotlights! Stay tuned for next week's
update/alert/spotlight/blurb/whatever!
Have a great weekend!
AND REGISTER NOW!!! DO IT!
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