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Dr. Jeff to join Cyber Quest 2021 as Keynote Speaker

1/15/2021

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Jeff Daniels will be the CyberQuest keynote speaker for the second year in a row.  The competition date  for 2021 will be Saturday, February 6th.  This year will be a virtual event. 

Starting in 2018, CyberQuest is a cybersecurity competition for high school students to demonstrate and improve their skills.  The teams are outstanding and highly technical.  We usually meet at the Fort Worth Air Force Plant 4 facility and tour the a/c assembly lines.

This year, the challenges may include:
  •  Web-based attacks
  •  Common vulnerabilities found within websites across the internet
  •  Windows & Linux privilege escalation
  •  Find vulnerabilities to move from a user to an administrator
  •  Packet capture & log analysis
  • A network traffic capture or various application / server logs commonly analyzed by cyber incident responders to retrace an adversary’s steps
  • Steganography
  • The practice of concealing a file, message, image, or video within another file, message, image, or video
  • Reverse engineering
  • The processes of extracting knowledge or design information from anything man-made and reproducing it or reproducing anything based on the extracted information
  • Cryptography
  • The construction and analysis of techniques that prevent eavesdroppers from reading private messages
What Would Be Good to Know
  • Linux & bash (including common CLI tools)
  • Common inter-computer communications
  • Kali & Metasploit
  • Network / Host recon (nmap/ wireshark)
  • Intercepting proxies (Burp Suite)
  • Scripting (python)
Common web application security vulnerabilities
  • OWASP Top 10
  • Configuring a browser to use an intercepting proxy such as Burp Suite (and how to use that proxy)
  • Port scanning tools such as nmap
  • How to use ssh
  • Read / write basic bash & html
  • Common tools in Kali Linux
A Few Handy Tools
  • OllyDbg1.10
  • x64dbg (snapshot_2018-07-15_19-25)
  • Portable App Platform
  • For Windows, these portable apps may be useful
  •  7-ZipPortable
  • DiffImgPortable
  • DiffpdfPortable
  • FileAlyzerPortable
  • FirefoxPortable
  •  FrhedPortable
  • GIMPPortable
  • gVimPortable
  • InkscapePortable
  • JPEGViewPortable
  • KeepNotePortable
  • Notepad++Portable
  • PortableApps.com
  • winMd5SumPortable
Additional Resources
  • Common web vulnerabilities
  • Tools included in Kali Linux like webshells
  • Bash — Search for “intro to bash programming” and read the first few pages of pretty much any result that you find interesting
  • Burp Suite
  • Nmap — Search for common scan syntax –know how to scan common ports, perform a service scan
  • Common Linux commands — Your favorite search engine will answer all your questions
    awk, cut, sed, wc, less, grep
  • Wireshark
    • Search for how to filter on IP address, port, HTTP request method
    • Search for how to follow streams, inspect packet fields
    • Search for how to carve files from Pcap, stream, specific packet
Eligibility Requirements
  • Two teams can represent a school. Schools may register up to 3 teams. Third teams will be waitlisted until registration is opened to them on Monday January 18th. From the waitlist, teams will be accepted on a first come, first served basis or other criteria determined by the planning committee. If a third team is accepted, the school will be notified via email on or after January 18th.
  • 2 – 5 High School students per team allowed
  • One Coach per team. One coach for multiple teams is acceptable.
  • Students on the same team must be from the same school. (Exemption for home schools and case by case requests)
  • A team should be affiliated with and represent the High School under which they are registering.
  • STEM programs are eligible to register a team
    • STEM program is a curriculum based on educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. The program of study focuses on the application of the subjects in a challenging and rigorous manner. Courses and pathways cover preparation for post-secondary education and employment.
    • The STEM Program should be a recognized organization/club within the community and high school(s).
    • STEM programs are eligible to register a team with students from different schools if the students’ school cannot form a team.
  • Each team is allowed to bring up to 3 computers per team unless otherwise stated on the site-specific pages
    • Must have a Microsoft RDP client windows: Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection
    • Mac / OS X: Microsoft RDP
    • Linux: rdesktop
    • Must have an ssh client
    • Windows: Putty recommended (there are other options as well, any that support ssh connections will work)
    • Mac / OS X: Terminal (built-in)
    • Linux: Terminal, ensure an ssh client is installed such as openssh-client (typically installed by default)
    • Must have a recently updated (last updated within 1 month prior to the competition day) version of the Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome browser on each computer
    • Keyboards / mice permitted if desired
    • No printers
    • No VMs
    • Monitors permitted if desired
    • No thumb drives
    • Reference books are permitted
    • Students will be on Lockheed Martin Guest Wifi, therefore internet access for research via the proxies is permitted
    • Tools / software needed to complete the competition will be provided on the systems within the challenge environment

For a complete list of eligibility requirements see the Official Rules



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