Hush1e
NCL introduced the Forensics domain in Fall 2020, and it was as much a surprise to the Player Ambassadors as it was to you! Fortunately, Hush1e has been conducting cyber forensics informally since the ’90s and can give us a tour of the open-source tool known as Autopsy, which is used professionally by forensic investigators and incident responders.
Taisa
Ready for the Preseason Game? You will be after this! Taisa's EYNTK mega-posts are an essential part of your NCL preparedness kit. Go down this checklist of what to do before, during, and after the Preseason Game to maximize your NCL experience.
ghostinth3machine
Assembly is the language of reversing binaries, and it can be intimidating to learn. However, you can circumnavigate the need for fluency in this foreign language by learning to use a translation tool like Radare instead—and the assembly will assemble into place later!
David Zeichick
The Cyber Skyline Coach Dashboard is an invaluable tool when it comes to coaching for the NCL. Coach Ambassador David Zeichick demonstrates the top 6 ways in which he uses the Coach Dashboard to help him assess his students' performance, progress, and participation.
ghostinth3machine
Regular Expressions are sets of special characters that symbolize search patterns. They look rather strange and esoteric, not unlike super-high-level, brain-exploding voodoo magic, but, as ghostinth3machine demonstrates, they're really not too difficult to learn, and, once you do learn them, you'll wonder how you ever survived without them.
FiFi aka "ZeroTrail"
A survey of IT decisionmakers revealed that soft skills are in high demand(*). Every job you've had in the past is therefore precious, because you gained soft skills from it that you can transfer to a position in cybersecurity. ZeroTrail made the switch and shows you how to boost your résumé and get hired by recognizing the value of your non-tech skills.
MistressVenom
Last year, the National Cyber League and CompTIA announced that they were teaming up. MistressVen0m answers the most common questions we've received about this partnership: Who is CompTIA? How does this affect players and coaches? What's this we hear about a CompTIA student membership? And last, but not least, will there be prizes??? (YES!)
ghostinth3machine
"If you turn the crank of the sausage machine backwards, pigs won't come out the other end." ...Or will they? Using hashcat on Windows—both in command line and GUI—ghostinth3machine explains how hashing works and demonstrates how to turn cryptographic sausage back into a password!
0x600DF00D
New to Coaching for NCL? Coach Ambassador 0x600DF00D explains the Coach registration process, the purchase of Game Codes, where to find your Coach Observation Link, and what insights that link will give you into your students' NCL participation.
ghostinth3machine
Warning: If you've been a long-time Windows GUI user, the Linux terminal may induce culture shock. But did you know that Windows has its own command line interface (CLI) that's not too different from Linux Terminal? Ghostinth3machine guides you through Windows CLI, where you can explore command-line basics in familiar surroundings!
CryptoKait 
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