Hello everyone! Great to see you all this week.
This week we did a Debrief on the NCL Individual game from October 22nd to 24th. We are great to hear that some of you had fun and learned with the interesting challenges this past weekend. Next Weekend, there will be the NCL Team game and CNY Hackathon where go further into the Cyber Security World. Stay Tuned
Hello everyone! Thanks for taking time to come during midterm week.
This week we went through nmap scans on an Ubuntu (a Linux distribution) VM and through the terminal of a host machine. We did a live demonstration of an easy nmap challenge in the NCL gym, discussed some of its practical uses, and talked about TCP, ICMP, and UDP ports and their uses.
Make sure to participate in the NCL individual game this weekend and prepare for the team game. Start looking for teammates now! The team game is on the first weekend of November starting Friday the 5th and ending on Sunday the 7th.
If you are interested in CNY hackathon, sign up now! It is on November 6th, transportation is currently being set up. Make sure to let us know if you plan to attend.
CNY Hackathon is a beginner friendly competition that is on Saturday, November 6th. Sign up now if you are interested ! Spots fill up quickly.
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
This week’s meetup was an exciting one. We welcomed speaker Jake Mihevc one of the founders of CNY Hackathon who gave us a little bit of insight on what to expect for this year’s competition and was awesome enough to give the club a few resources to help members practice for hackathons. We also got the chance to dive into the importance of log analysis and demoed a challenge from NCL!
Below are a few of the resources given:
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 Info Sec Club Members!
Our meetup this week consisted of going over the terminal and how to navigate it! We went our resources on our resoures pages and solve challenges on picoctf.org and https://cyberskyline.com/events/ncl (Forensic Category). Those who had filled out the NCL voucher form, you should have received your NCL voucher and agreement for the voucher, 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 all enjoyed yesterday’s meeting, and have managed to play around a little bit with the different CTFs we displayed last night. We will be posting the group channels for people interested in doing them in the GroupMe chat, so make sure you’re in that. Here are the encryption challenges, and they are also up on the website, on the Practice Cybersecurity page. Also, don’t forget, if you want to have a chance at free National Cyber League (NCL) CTF tickets, send a short paragraph to isc@syr.edu about why you want to participate in NCL, and how you’re interested in contributing to the club. The NCL registration deadline is this Friday, so in order to qualify for the tickets, you must send in the paragraph by midnight tonight. Finally, for those you’re interested in participating in the CyberSEED CTF, fill out the interest form below. The CyberSEED CTF is significantly more difficult than NCL, but if you’re interested in that $3000 grand prize, it’s worth it if you have the experience. There is also an interest form for those who want to attend B-Sides Rochester. Just make sure you also register for your free tickets ASAP as well.
If you have any questions, please let us know at isc@syr.edu. Have a great week!
