JeanaByte
You may have heard someone brag about their "Google-Fu" skills before and assumed they were just being funny, but, as JeanaByte demonstrates, a powerful art known as "Google dorking" does indeed exist, and it can be used for good or for bad—and for the Open Source Intelligence domain of the NCL Games. Please query responsibly!
By Taisa
Taisa played her first season of NCL entirely from a browser-only device and shares her top resources and tricks for competing in less-than-ideal circumstances. Even if you've got Kali running as a VM, low-tech and browser-based tools can be a great way to check your work, troubleshoot your process, or collaborate with teammates in the cloud.
MistressVenom
MistressVenom loves to eat logs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and as an awesome 2 AM snack. Let her show you how to analyze logs like a pro, using four of the tastiest methods: manually, Excel, command line, and Splunk!
MistressVenom
Toolkit limitations? Many NCL challenges can be completed using a single, ubiquitous, user-friendly tool: a web browser! MistressVenom shows you her favorite password cracking websites. Let someone else's computer do the heavy lifting!
Fred Stinchcombe
Fred walks us through how he would solve the Summer Camp 2020 – Open Source Intelligence challenge: Metadata.
CryptoKait
The most important skill to cultivate for NCL's Password Cracking domain is using the correct wordlist! This guide alone should get you through all the Easy and Medium challenges. CryptoKait demonstrates how to use a premade wordlist, create an enumerated wordlist, and generate your own wordlist from scratch.
CryptoKait
"If you want to learn how to do log analysis properly, this probably isn't the post for you." –CryptoKait
"There are plenty of ways to get things done. . . . I have always been good at Excel, and I firmly believe you should use things you are familiar with." –Also CryptoKait(*)
