Once again, another fantastic training event was held last Saturday, and many thanks go out to the Speaker Mr. Anthony Lai who provided such a professional and well prepared insight into the world of penetration testing.

Anthony conducted his workshop using Virtual Machines (an attacking machine and a victim machine), giving all the attendees an opportunity to try for themselves some of the hacking techniques in a hands on environment. A full classroom testified to the popularity of this event:

Anthony prepared very detailed slides explaining the techniques that he used and provided information on countless useful resources. The training package can be downloaded by HTCIA members by clicking on the heading (if you are a HTCIA Asia Pacific member and would like access to the training material, please send an e-mail to paul(at)htcia.org.hk)

Saturday 5th May saw a good turnout for our first training workshop of the year in the Vocational Training Centre's hands on lab.

Despite the problems presented by the restrictive firewall policies in the venue, presenter Paul Jackson was able to provide an overview of online investigations, and introduce some effective tools that can be used to work in a more efficient and focussed manner.

Topics included:

• Intro to IP and e-mail tracing
• internet routing and DNS issues from an investigation perspective
• Advanced BGP and DNS issues
• Understanding http and web server structures
• web forwarders and html tricks to hide detection
• anonymous proxies
• live response tools

For those members who want to access the presentation material, please click the heading - if you don't already have a password, please send a request to paul (at) htcia.org.hk

HTCIA Asia Pacific Chapter member Frank Law has kindly provided us with a copy of his research into illegal file sharing over the Internet. In particular, he has researched the legal aspects of the successful prosecution by HK Customs Department of a HK male for sharing of copyright material using Bit Torrent last year - the first such prosecution worldwide.

A good media summary of this case can be found by clicking here. To read Frank's research (member's only) please click the heading.