Tech Tip Tuesday - Cyber Security Awareness Week High School Forensics Challenge

The Tandon School of Engineering at NYU hosts the High School Forensics challenge annually. The Qualification Round of HSF runs September 22 - October 2, 2017 and is open to everyone. The Final Competition is November 9 - 11, 2017 and is only for high school students. Sign up now and take a look at their Cyber Forensics (CyFor) learning environment.

https://csaw.engineering.nyu.edu/hsf

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Tech Tip Tuesday - FREE COMPUTERS… some restrictions apply

Hawaiian Hope has been doing amazing work for many years but their 2nd Birthday as a nonprofit is this Friday. To celebrate they are giving away 150 computers to families with children under 10. I expect them all find good homes pretty quickly.

If you are in the market for a new computer and your current machine has some life left, consider donating it to Hawaiian Hope. They are also in the middle of a $30,000 fundraising goal, so monetary donations are also welcomed. No money or computer to give, head down to the shop and help them get the computers ready for delivery.

http://www.hawaiianhope.org/

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Tech Tip Tuesday - Memorized Secret authenticators (aka Passwords)

NIST Special Publication 800-63B was recently updated. The biggest change is the focus on the ease of recollection and password length versus password complexity.

"It works because we are creating longer passwords that cryptographically are harder to break than the shorter ones, even with all those special character requirements,"

It’s a new approach and it should cut down on the password reset requests.

www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/08/14/543434808/forget-tough-passwords-new-guidelines-make-it-simple

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Tech Tip Tuesday - Diary of a Security Noob

I’ve recently met with a lot of students and/or folks new to or wanting to get into cybersecurity. They all want to know how to get started. I’m working on some material to share but in the meantime this talk from TJ Toterhi at BSides Cleveland offers some great advice for everyone from newbies to seasoned professionals. Do you have any advice those breaking into the field?

http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/bsidescleveland2017/bsides-cleveland-201-diary-of-a-security-noob-tj-toterhi

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Tech Tip Tuesday - Top 50 Infosec Blogs

An interview question I’ve used in the past is, “How do you stay current with cybersecurity news?”. There are a lot of generous people willing to share their time and knowledge with the community. Digital Guardian put together a list of 50 of them. Some of these blogs have spinoffs and most of them are available as a podcast. Which ones do you follow?

https://digitalguardian.com/blog/top-50-infosec-blogs-you-should-be-reading

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