[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG Meeting Today at 7:30pm

[Don Tai]

Tonight's Outline:
Internet ‘Bots: Friend, Foe or I Don’t Know
Who is Visiting your Site, and Who are you Visiting?
Defense:

   - 2018 Internet Traffic: Human and Bot
   - Why do Bots visit your site?
   - Tools Used: Raw access log/Http Request Headers, Internet Research,
   Whois.com: public IP information
   - The Human Visitor
   - Good Bots: Search Engines
   - Bad Bots
   - Spam: feedback, referrer
   - Malicious Bots
   - Anti-bot legislation: US, Canada, Australia, Uk

Offense:

   - Hacking Definition: Breaking into web sites/devices
   - Hacking subculture
   - Illegality: Local vs International
   - the process: 1) reconnaisance, find a vulnerability, hack, 2) create,
   send a root kit; phishing, deep phishing
   - hacking tools: NMap, Armitage, Metasploit, all available from the Kali
   distribution, Open Source
   - site/server reconnaisance: NMap/Armitage
   - Metasploit, Vulnerability database lookup
   - Possible exploits

I welcome all discussion.

Don

On 10 July 2018 at 07:46, hi--- via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> <http://gtalug.org/meeting/2018-07/>
>
> # Internet Bots w/ Don Tai
>
> Don Tai shares their experience having explored the ever growing space of
> internet bots and web hacking tools.
> A discussion of the concepts and tools for:
> * Internet traffic: what is bots vs humans?
> * Bot traffic signatures: spam bots (feedback, referrer), scrapers,
> malicious bot examples
> * Observing Bots and Controlling Bots: raw access log, WHOIS, htaccess
> * Reconnaissance: NMap, Armitage, Metasploit
> * Working with Vulnerability databases
>
> ## Location
>
> George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre
> 245 Church Street, Room 203
> Ryerson University
>
> <http://goo.gl/maps/16oJ2>
>
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23447525>
>
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>
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