Have you ever thought "Man I should really learn how to use that Metasploit tool" but had no idea where to start or simply became distracted by Cute Overload? Well fear not, we have the (an) answer! This week's seminar will be focusing on exploring the many capabilities of Metasploit, an industry standard penetration testing tool, and will be building off our first Metasploit seminar. We'll use virtual machines to learn about information gathering, scanning for vulnerabilities, various types of exploits and payloads, how to maintain access and other neat uses of the tool. We'll also delve into Armitage, a graphical interface built on the Metasploit framework. If you've never heard of Metasploit or are a 'sploiting guru come on out and join in the fun!

Ever feel like you don't have the skill or knowledge to be an InfoSec Professional? Don't know where to start to change that? Join us this Thursday night and learn how to develop those core competencies that are necessary for everyone involved in the security world. In just 30 minutes a day you too could be leet, no supplements required!

Learn how to think like a hacker! This seminar will cover the 5 phases of an attack: Reconnaissance, Scanning, Gaining Access, Maintaining Access, and Covering Tracks. Attend this Thursday and get learn important background information that will help you during our more technical seminars being held later this semester.

The Information Assurance Club's first seminar of the spring semester will be held Tomorrow from 7:00 - 8:00pm in 206 IST. At this meeting, we will be recapping the club's trip to Washington D.C. for ShmooCon. For those of you who are not familiar with ShmooCon, their website describes it as, "an annual east coast hacker convention hell-bent on offering three days of an interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software and hardware solutions, and open discussions of critical infosec issues."

Come join us Tomorrow, Thursday November 9th from 7:00-8:00PM in 208 IST as we explore the world of Metasploit. Metasploit is a popular and commonly used open source vulnerability exploitation framework. It is most commonly used as a penetration testing tool to develop and execute exploits. We will be discussing the history of the framework, how it works, and will be going over some of the things that make this tool a staple in the Info Sec community. Feel free to bring your laptop and follow along with the presentation!

We will be holding our annual joint WIST/ IA Club Intro to Linux seminar tomorrow, Thursday, November 3rd at 7:30PM in 206 IST. We encourage everyone to bring their laptop and follow along! Don't worry if you do not currently have Linux installed, as we will be distributing Ubuntu 11.10 Live CDs. This seminar will begin with the history of the Linux operating system, we will then cover some key terminology, and will conclude will demonstrations of some key commands.