Meeting Notes for Oct. 21, 2021

Meeting Notes Oct. 21, 2021:

Hacker Jeopardy

• Newz: This popular software recently disclosed a bug in their ssh key generation algorithms.
  • Gitkraken
• Toolz: awk -v cols=$(tput cols) ‘{c=int(sin(NR/10)*(cols/6)+(cols/6))+1;print(substr($0,1,c-1) “\x1b[41m” substr($0,c,1) “\x1b[0m” substr($0,c+1,length($0)-c+2))}’ access_log | less -SR
  • color a sine wave in a logfile output
• Knawledge: what port is commonly used for SSH?
  • 22

CTF Meetup this weekend

• just a couple people showed up in person last weekend for the NCL preseason, maybe b/c confusion with the poll in discord
• planning on setting up a team for the NCCDC, need to cover more attack/defense topics
• compete in overthewire for learning more about A&D skills: https://overthewire.org/warzone/
• download VM images from VulnHub to practice more A&D skills: https://www.vulnhub.com/
• https://www.nationalccdc.org/index.php/competition/regionals
• we are in the “at large” region and need to email the director for a sign up link

CTF category of the week: scanning

• nmap homepage: https://nmap.org/
• scapy homepage: https://scapy.net/

Prizes/Raffles

• gave away one book bundle
• awarded prizes for first and second place in the NCL preseason competition