Hello everyone!
Next week we are going to prep for CNY hackathon (this competition is beginner friendly), practice in the NCL gym, and go through some challenges from picoCTF. CNY hackathon will be on Saturday, November 6th this year. If you have any questions, contact us at isc@syr.edu or bring your questions to Tuesday’s meeting.
This week we went over file permissions (for owner, group, and others) and user management in Kali Linux. For file permissions, we went over how to use “chmod” to change file read/write/execute permissions, “chown” to change the owner of the file, and “chgrp” to change the group who can access the file. We also discussed how to create new users and give them passwords, create new groups, and change group access permissions.
As a reminder, the NCL preseason started on Monday! If you are participating in NCL continue to work on it throughout the week and remember to make a debrief of one of the challenges.
Next week we are going to prep for CNY hackathon (this competition is beginner friendly), practice in the NCL gym, and go through some challenges from picoCTF.
For those who want more practice in Linux, here is the challenge given at the meeting:
Create a VM where there are three main groups
Admin
-John
-Macy
-Alice
Marketing
-Tyler
-Sam
Sales
-Ceasars
Create a directory that only sales can read and write
Create a directory that only marketing can read and write
Create a directory that only admins can read and write
Hello Info Sec Members!
This week, we will have CNY Hackathon as a guest speaker. CNY Hackathon is a regional intercollegiate cybersecurity competition focused on penetration testing and defense. You can learn more at cnyhackathon.org if you are interested. For the meetup on October 5th, Jake from CNY Hackathony will be talking about CNY Hacakthon and its benefits. We will be going over log analysis and solving challenges within NCL in preparation of CNY Hackathon and other competitions. Remember, if you have not done so already, redeem your NCL voucher! NCL is a great way to practice and improve your skills, and the individual game is October 22 – 24. Use it or lose it.
Hey everyone!
We hope you all enjoyed yesterday’s meeting.
If you have any questions, please let us know at isc@syr.edu. Have a great week!
Hey everyone. We hope you enjoyed this meeting. Next week will be the last meeting of the semester, in order to let everyone focus on exams and other obligations, but that doesn’t mean the club won’t be active at all. We’re still working on the website, trying to create challenges so you can remain engaged and learn over winter break if you want. We recommend participating in this if you want to do CCDC next semester, as we are still looking to fill the team up and this would be a great way to prepare yourself. I will be posting an Google Sheets with a list of topics, and you can pick whatever topics you want (or add any you think are missing). We will also be attaching Jovanni notes from CNY Hackathon, and will save it on the Practice Cybersecurity page to prep for next CNY Hackathon. Finally, if you want one more challenge for the semester, register for the HTB competition, you can contact Anthony Mazzacane for more details. See you all next week!
Hey everyone. We hope you found the last meeting useful, and already have your resumes ready to apply for some jobs. Make sure you apply for them ASAP for the best chance possible. Also, for those participating in CNY Hackathon, good luck! If you’re registered, you should be getting an email by tomorrow about the exact details of the infrastructure. There will be some resources posted below for you to prepare for the competition. There are also the challenges in the meeting presentation you can use to test your skills, but you can do your own research as well! Finally, if you are interested in the Hack the Box CTF competition or NCL Team Game, you can let Anthony know in the GroupMe, as he has been organizing the teams for those competitions. Have a great week!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH1NOwIO1Rc&feature=youtu.be
Hey guys. We hope you all enjoyed the last meeting, and have been messing around with Metasploitable. It’s a great way to learn about exploiting vulnerabilities. And don’t forget to register for CNY Hackathon, and fill out the headcount form when you do so Jake can more efficiently match you all with good team members. I also forgot to mention this during the club meeting, but Anthony brought to my attention an intercollegiate Capture The Flag-style competition being hosted by Hack the Box. If you don’t remember, that’s the online platform with various challenges to solve and VMs to break into in order to improve your skills. The qualifier CTF is on Friday, November 20th, so you can practice for a couple weeks after CNY Hackathon, if you choose to. More details can be found on the website. Now, if you haven’t already gotten your resume in order, you’d better do so soon, as next week, Kameron Scott, an InfoSec Club alumni, will be coming to talk about internships and full time positions with IBM’s Security Services department. This can be a great opportunity to get your foot in the door of a top company, so make sure you come with questions for Kameron! Can’t wait to see you all next week.
We hope you all enjoyed the last meeting, and take Kyle and Drew’s advice. Their variety of experiences at SU and GE make them a great target to ask about breaking into the industry. I will put their LinkedIn accounts below. And good luck to those participating in the NCL Individual Game. And again, don’t forget to register for CNY Hackathon! Jake, one of the event coordinators from Mohawk Valley Community College, will be coming next week to tell us more about the event. They would really like to see SU’s involvement this year in the event, so make sure you’re here to hear about it. I will also put a link to the recording of the club Zoom session. You have to sign in to your SU Zoom account to view them. Here are instructions on how to do it. There will soon be a separate page on our website to archive the recordings, so you will be able to go back and watch all of them. For now, here’s this week’s meeting.
