People have a bad habit of over-committing themselves. Whether it is work, school, volunteer hours, or even helping out friends, our schedules can become overwhelming very fast. This isn't always a bad thing! Being passionate about a variety of different things is good for personal and professional growth. However, while you're navigating the world and … Continue reading Let’s Have A Serious Talk About Overworking Yourself
While tailing a suspected member of the liber8tion hacker group to an outdoor cafe, one of our agents was able to sneak a quick picture of a conversation between them and another hacker. With our patented "Zoom & Enhance" technology, were were able to make out this part of the texts. We know from other … Continue reading Summer Camp 2020 – 1-2-3 Words
Self care is important and it's not necessarily easy. Anyone who tells you differently is trying to sell you something. In between the network traffic analysis and banging your head against whatever convoluted challenge Franz and Toby have concocted this time around, keeping yourself sane is just as important as getting a lot of points. … Continue reading Practicing Self Care During the NCL Games
Social Distancing. Odds are, you've probably spent a majority of the last few weeks thinking on how to go about your daily routine while staying a minimum of 6ft away from any other human being. For some, this can make the foray into the National Cyber League (NCL) Team Games difficult. Many university teams will … Continue reading Teamwork Strategies for Social Distancing
AKA: Seven Habits of Highly Effective NCL Teams Picture this: You’re feelin’ great because you’ve just made your way through the individual games and you gave it your all. (Maybe you’re also a little sleep deprived, because 3 days of hacking challenges changes a person.) In a few short weeks, the team games are coming … Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About the NCL Team Game
Reverse engineering is an exercise in breaking a problem down into bite sized pieces and doing a little bit of deduction. The following is a challenge that has been edited by yours truly but MAY resemble challenges seen before in the NCL *coughCyberSkylinepleasedontkillmecough*. This one is an easy challenge, but can get us to try … Continue reading Turning that Code Inside Out: A Look at Reverse Engineering
The National Cyber League (NCL) was a transformative experience for me. Through the three years I participated, I went from a sophomore who didn’t know a single thing to co-running our university’s cybersecurity team as a senior. Because I participated, I was able to find everything from conference opportunities to friends in the industry. Hell, … Continue reading Why I Became an NCL Player Ambassador – WebWitch
Discovering Hidden Secrets with Nmap Hello all! And welcome to my next installment to the Player Ambassador training series. This time our topic is nmap scanning: what it does and how to tailor your scans to your competition needs. For some who already have a solid understanding of this topic skip down to Commands for … Continue reading Intro to Scanning for the National Cyber League Games
If you’re like me, sifting through tons of data by hand is one of the most boring and tedious processes known to man. Thankfully, we have Bash (the Unix shell command language) to streamline our search. I’ll walk you through the fundamentals and show you how you can put them together to get the answers … Continue reading Leaping into Log Analysis
