Tech Tip Tuesday - Hour of Code

The Hour of Code is happening this week in conjunction with computer science education week. It gets bigger and better every year. This year they provide statistics to convey the impact they are having in the State of Hawaii. Are you one of the 2,219 registered teachers or one of the 91,561 registered students in Hawaii? #CSEdWeek #HourOfCode

https://code.org/advocacy/state-facts/HI.pdf

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Tech Tip Tuesday - CTF Field Guide

If signed up, or are thinking about signing up, for the CampFIRE Cyber Security Challenge check out the Trail of Bits CTF Field Guide. In addition to finding other CTFs, it walks through the different types of challenges and provides training to ultimately help you win. How are you preparing for the CampFIRE?

https://trailofbits.github.io/ctf/

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Tech Tip Tuesday - CampFIRE Cyber Security Challenge

CyberHawaii, University of Hawai‘i, and State of Hawai‘i is hosting a jeopardy-style, Capture the Flag (CTF) event. This half-day, on-site event is free for security professionals and college students. Participants can play in a team of two or individually. CampFIRE CTF is primarily focused around incident response and contains challenges that are based on real-life attacks or inspired by day-to-day security tasks. Upon completion of the event, participants will have learned about tools and techniques to deal with actual cyber security threats.

http://www.hawaii.edu/infosec/campfire/

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Tech Tip Tuesday - Targeted Attack: The Game

Trend Micro has a “choose your own adventure” game that puts you in the Chief Information Officer’s (CIO’s) seat of a fictional company launching a new app. You are presented with multiple challenges and are responsible for the success or failure of the new endeavor. Not everyone aspires to be a CIO but understanding what problems look like at the C-level can help you communicate your challenges to leadership.

http://targetedattacks.trendmicro.com/

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Tech Tip Tuesday - How to Protect Your Identity, Personal Data and Property

Our friends at Pacific Center for Advanced Technical Training (PCATT) shared this resource from Tom’s Guide a couple of days ago. The “What to Do If…” section covers some common issues like ransomware and identity theft. It also lists some tips for protecting yourself. It’s the perfect link to send someone asks, “Hey! You do computer stuff. What do you recommend?”

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/protect-yourself,review-4379.html

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Tech Tip Thursday - Risk

Over the past few days I saw many vendors at #AFCEATechNet Asia-Pacific and I realized that every product and service they offer is built to address one thing. Risk. The generally accepted risk equation is “Risk = Threat x Vulnerability x Impact” and different products take on different factors. A vendor that provides “real time threat intelligence” is focused on threats. The “vulnerability assessment” tools focus on the vulns. Other focus on maintaining “uptime” with “resilient networks” to reduce impact. This SANS article identifies Risk as one of the “Five Tenets of Cyber Security” but for me it all comes down to risk.

https://securingthehuman.sans.org/blog/2017/10/05/the-five-tenets-of-cyber-security/

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Tech Tip Tuesday - Password Reuse

Troy Hunt is the Pokemaster of collecting credentials from security breaches. He put together a database of 4,792,153,725 email accounts associated with both known and undiscovered breaches. These accounts have passwords associated with them and the major risk is password reuse. If you use your email address (e.g. Chunkylover53@aol.com) and super complex password to register for a site that has been compromised, you might have used the same credentials for another site (e.g. email, banking, Amazon). Once the bad guys get a hold of your credentials they start checking other sites for access. Have I been pwned is a quick way to check if your email address is associated with stolen credentials. The site does not provide the password associated with the email but it does say what breach it was associated with. Whether you are pwned or not, the 24th day of National Cyber Security Awareness Month is a good reason to change your password. #CyberAware #CSAM #HCSAM

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

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