Tech Tip Tuesday – US Cyber Challenge: Cyber Quests April 2016

If you want to test your cyber incident response skills check out Cyber Quests. Participants will analyze packets, logs, and related scenarios to determine the nature of a variety of attacks, using skills associated with Security Monitoring and Event Analysts job requirements as set forth in the Mission Critical Role Project document developed by the Council on CyberSecurity.

The quiz is open from now to May 6th but you need to register before May 5th. Good luck!

http://uscc.cyberquests.org/

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Tech Tip Tuesday – I’m Hacked, Now What?

The April edition of @SANs OUCH! Newsletter provides good information on how to determine if you have been hacked and what to do. This is not a one size fits all solution but it’s a good start.

https://securingthehuman.sans.org/newsletters/ouch/issues/OUCH-201604_en.pdf

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Tech Tip Tuesday - Friends Don’t Let Friends Plug in Strange USB Devices

A recent study conducted on a couple of college campuses found that 48% of people will pick up and plug in a USB flash drive they find. The primary motivation has been to find its rightful owner. Education is the only “reasonable” mitigation to this attack vector. Please do your part to keep your friends safe.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/11/half_plug_in_found_drives/

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Tech Tip Tuesday – Verizon Data Breach Digest

The same folks that bring you the Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) just released a new kind of report. The Data Breach Digest provides 18 vignettes that cover the most popular attacks. It’s a great read for aspiring cybersecurity professionals or anyone wanting to know how DNS tunneling can hide malicious traffic in plain site.

http://www.verizonenterprise.com/resources/reports/rp_data-breach-digest_xg_en.pdf

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Tech Tip Tuesday – World Backup Day

Mark your calendars! March 31st is World Backup Day. With the use of ransomware on the rise it has never been more important to ensure you have a good (and recent) backup of all your data. Ransomware: Backup, don't pay up!

http://www.worldbackupday.com/en/

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Tech Tip Tuesday – Red Teaming at WRCCDC 2016 Blog

This blog share some insights from a red team member to include explaining how some of their custom tools work. This open source intelligence should be used to develop countermeasures for CCDC events and beyond.

http://lockboxx.blogspot.com/2016/03/red-teaming-at-wrccdc-2016.html

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Tech Tip Tuesday - Cobalt Strike Tips for 2016 CCDC Red Teams

This is a great read for the aspiring Red Teamer in any competition. Sun Tzu would probably make this required reading for Blue Teams as well.

http://blog.cobaltstrike.com/2016/02/23/cobalt-strike-tips-for-2016-ccdc-red-teams/

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