Paul Buonopane
Slack is a messaging platform where you can communicate live with other NCL players and the competition organizers. During competitions, alerts such as challenge clarifications are broadcast on Slack. Between competitions, players share tips and war stories, and search for teammates. In this article, Paul discusses Slack etiquette and how to navigate the channels.
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Coach Ambassador 0x600DF00D knows you want your students to succeed in NCL! He explains when and how Coaches may offer assistance, and shares his top tools and hints, by domain, to impart upon your charges before the Games begin (because during would be cheating!).
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.
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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!
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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.
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"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!
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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!
Taisa
(Third in a three-part series.)
Reinforce what you've learned with examples and repetition! Taisa guides you through how you can untangle the Web Access Log challenge on your own using the command-line tools from Parts 1 and 2 in this series. You've got this!
Taisa
(First in a three-part series.)
In 2017, Taisa was traumatized by logs. In 2018, she was analyzing logs by hand on a browser-only Chromebook. In 2020, she was #1 on the leaderboard in Log Analysis at the end of the Spring Preseason. Follow her Command-line Log Analysis blog series to find out which tools she used and how she did it—and how you can, too!
CryptoKait 
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