Tech Tip Thursday - Tax Fraud Prevention

It's the start of tax season which coincides with the IRS tax themed phishing emails. Credit Karma has some tips to keep your personal information safe.

https://www.creditkarma.com/article/tips-for-preventing-tax-fraud-31116

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Tech Tip Thursday - Girls Go CyberStart

Girls Go CyberStart builds on the recent success of last summer's CyberStart. In Hawaii alone, 22 students received $1,500 scholarships from SANS. This round is just for high school girls. Registration is open between January 29 and February 16. Game play will be available from February 20-25. Good luck!

https://girlsgocyberstart.com/

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Tech Tip Tuesday - Meltdown and Spectre The vulnerabilities of the year are here and it pretty much effects everything with a processor that was made in the last 20 years. Meltdown and Spectre were responsibly disclosed to manufacturers a few months ago and it is just now becoming public. Microsoft has issued out of cycle (not Patch Tuesday) update and other vendors are doing the same. Here are a couple of good talking points for each vulnerability. “Meltdown breaks the most fundamental isolation between user applications and the operating system. This attack allows a program to access the memory, and thus also the secrets, of other programs and the operating system.” “Spectre breaks the isolation between different applications. It allows an attacker to trick error-free programs, which follow best practices, into leaking their secrets. In fact, the safety checks of said best practices actually increase the attack surface and may make applications more susceptible to Spectre” https://meltdownattack.com/ If you have a Tech Tip you want to share, send them to info@cyberhui.org and we'll get them out next #TechTipTuesday.

Tech Tip Tuesday - 2017 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge

Are you home for the holidays with nothing to do? Why not take the SANS Holiday Hack and compete for the Grand Prize, a free SANS Online Training course (normally priced around $5,000). Answers must be submitted before January 10, 2018 but the content will remain available well after. If this is your first SANS Holiday Hack, I would recommend checking out past challenges first. There’s a lot of open source intelligence on the Internets.

https://www.holidayhackchallenge.com/2017/

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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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