Rick Moen of Linuxmafia.com will be the featured speaker at the next meeting of the Lab's Linux Users Group. The meeting will start at noon Tuesday, Dec. 4, in Perseverance Hall and all interested employees are invited. Moen, who describes himself as a "recovering sysadmin, working with Linux, WANs/LANs, and sundry network servers in the San Francisco Bay Area," will discuss "Attacking Linux -- Linux/Unix Hackers Methodologies Revealed!" His talk will cover such topics as:

• Tools hackers use
  
• Services that can work against you
  
• Common exploits
  
• How hackers get in
  
• What hackers do when they're in
• Spotting a hacked system
  
• Five good anti-hacker habits
  
• Linux tools everyone should know
  
• SSH tips and tricks
  
• Various utilities

Interested employees can RSVP for the meeting - and get a number for a drawing to be held at the meeting -- at http://lug.lbl.gov/.