We’d like to thank everybody that helped setup and came to our events this year; we hope you enjoyed yourselves and will come to our events next year. We’d also like to congratulate those students who received great results for this semester and to commiserate those who didn’t.

We will send an email out sometime in January to let you know when our General Meeting will occur. We’ll have many positions that will need to be filled and we need eager members to fill these positions. Employers like to see extracurricular activities on your resume and holding a position in SCISSA is a great way to impress a potential employer. Finally we wish Merry Christmas to all our members and we also wish you a great new year.

SCISSA is having its famous end of exam party on the 21st of November. Come and have some fun and celebrate the end of the uni year. The party will feature:

• Music


• Beer, Soft Drinks, and Cider


• Pizza

Details

• Start Time: Friday, November 21, 2008 at 6:30pm


• End Time: Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 12:00am


• Location: Staff Room in Building 13 on th ECU Mount Lawley Campus

We’re finally having our LAN for this year. Here are the details you need to know

• When: 4th of October at 2:30pm til the 5th of October at 12:30pm


• Where: ECU Mt Lawley Campus in building 15.127 (the multi-coloured building next to the student parking)


• Cost: $10 SCISSA Members and $15 for Non-Members


• What you need to bring: Yourself, your computer and one Monitor, Ethernet cable, headphones, a power board

To register visit the facebook event page for the 2008 SCISSA LAN

A new and exciting recruiting campaign currently being run by DSD in the field of cyber operations. They are looking for passionate technical people who are interested in:

• Programming in high and low level languages
• Responding to incidents on critical networks


• Computer forensics to help find the really bad guys
• System administration to support our specialist networks


• Penetration testing, including tool and exploit development


• Software reverse engineering for malware analysis


• Computer and network vulnerability analysis and discovery


• Secure system and network architecture design and risk management

The campaign will run from July to September, with electronic applications closing on 17 August 2008. During September, DSD will host a fully-paid 2 day assessment centre in Canberra for those applicants found suitable during the first phase. This will also give applicants an opportunity to meet our staff and see the exciting range of work available at DSD.


More information and details of how to apply can be found at http://www.dsd.gov.au/cyberoperations.


If you have any queries, please email cyber-ops@dsd.gov.au.

University can be a little daunting and to assist you, ECU is providing support even before your classes start through they orientation program. The program includes a full range of free academic, support and social activities. To ensure that you are well prepared to meet the academic requirements for your course you should attend as many orientation activities as you can. go to the ECU Orientation Website for more information. Here are the dates.


Joondalup Orientation
22nd of July between 11:00am to 3:00pm
Room: Building 32, lawn area & JOO 19.143


Mount Lawley Orientation
24th of July between 11:00am to 4:00pm
Room: By the little Aroma Cafe (Bldgs 16-17) & ML 3.101

Thanks for everyone who come to either or both SCISSA events. A very big thanks also goes out to all of you who helped out and planned these events, without you these events wouldn’t have been a success

So more people can celeberate the end of the semester we have moved the end of semester party back to ECU’s Mt Lawley campus. The party will now be held at the staff room in Building 13 instead of the Sound Suite. The party is still scheduled for the 27th of June, and it will kick of at 6pm. For more information about the party please regularly check this website and the party’s facebook webpage.

Tickets:

• $20 SCISSA members


• $25 non members


• $30 at the door

We had problems with the website and migrating it to the new server, but we’ve mostly fixed everything now and the website is running. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Are you a 2nd year student at Edith Cowan University? Doing you want to get more involved in SCISSA? We need a 2nd year student who is a member SCISSA to represent all the second year’s who are SCISSA members. Your job would involve attending meetings where you would bring attention to the needs or problems second year students are having and being part of the SCISSA committee making decisions on where SCISSA goes in the future and what events we hold.


If you are interested in this job please visit us at our office in building 13 office 123 or you can email any of the committee members by clicking on the links on the committee section on the about us page

SCISSA members are The WA Information Technology and Telecommunications Awards finalists for their work on the SIMPLE Forensic Project in partnership with WA Police Computer Crime Squad. The innovative tool uses a forensically sound, customised Linux bootable to enable Police to rapidly profile a suspects computer for illegal images. To learn more about the awards visit the WAITTA Website.