Tech Tip Tuesday - 2017 Hawaii Cyber Challenge

The Hawaii Cyber Challenge is not a normal Hunger Games, kill or be killed, "Capture the Flag" (CTF). CTFs can be intimidating and there is an industry track for individuals out for blood, but there is also a mentorship track that pairs a student with a mentor. This free event, will be held on August 3 at Honolulu Community College. It includes a 1/2 day capture the flag (CTF) event (combined w/ a day conference). We hope to see you there!

https://live.optiv.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x283305e74

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Tech Tip Tuesday - SANS CyberStart

SANS CyberStart is a unique program that offers users a challenging environment to learn more about cybersecurity and the opportunity to tap into $650,000 in scholarships. The assessment challenges are available from now till July 28th and the full-scale program will run from August 1-28, 2017. It’s open to students 16 and older from seven states, to include Hawaii, and it’s FREE.

https://www.sans.org/cyberstart

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Tech Tip Tuesday - Patch Tuesday

Zero Days and exploits, with logos and theme songs make the major news outlets but viruses, trojans, ransomware, cyber warfare, etc usually exploit known vulnerabilities with publicly available patches. Microsoft provided a patch for the WannaCry vulnerability two months before it made headlines. Microsoft released security updates that address 54 vulnerabilities and Adobe released updates for at least three. Please do your part and practice good #cygiene. Patch today.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/07/adobe-microsoft-push-critical-security-fixes-11/

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Tech Tip Thursday - Ransomware Protection

The generally accepted recommendations for ransomware protection revolve around patching and backing up your computers, not opening suspicious emails, disabling macros and scripts from office products, etc. I was recently reminded of another technique specific to JavaScript attachments. Changing the default application for .JS files to notepad.exe will prevent code from executing without user intervention. It’s just another layer in the security onion/cake.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/04/26/ransomware-in-your-inbox-the-rise-of-malicious-javascript-attachments/

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