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Ask HN: Resources for College Cybersecurity Club?
Hi! I run a club at my university devoted to helping ~30 members learn more about hacking and cybersecurity, and I'd love to get more suggestions for activities we can do on a shoestring budget.
What free/cheap interactive tutorials and lessons have you enjoyed?
So far, I plan to:
- Work through the Bandit box on OverTheWire.org [1]
- Talk about social engineering with the Social Engineer Toolkit [2]
- Practice CTFs with PicoCTF [3]
- ... hack the planet?
[1] https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/
[2] https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit
[3] https://picoctf.org/
- nosmokewhereiam 3y agoCyber guardian program and maybe check out isc.sans.org.
- WaffleIronMaker 3y agoInteresting! I hadn't heard of these resources. I see they have a lot of paid certifications that might be out of our budget, but that's super interesting! thanks for sharing.
- nosmokewhereiam 3y agoThis thread has your group in mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37281745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37281745
- sargstuff 3y agoCybersecurity Educational Resources : https://github.com/CSIRT-MU/edu-resources https://github.com/CSIRT-MU/edu-resources Web search / check out what other college cyber security clubs / national organizations are using/doing//hosting! Affiliating a club with a national parent organization(s) may also provide additional resources. a few links from sites via "cyber security club activities" web search: https://www.cyber-fasttrack.org/cyber-collegiate/ https://nationalcyberleague.org/ https://www.sans.org/mlp/cybersecurity-training-community/
- WaffleIronMaker 3y agoWow! That's quite the gold mine of resources! Thanks for sharing.
- sargstuff 3y ago"The Cybersecurity Body of Knowledge The ACM/IEEE/AIS/IFIP Recommendations for a Complete Curriculum in Cybersecurity" might be helpful as comprehensive overview to navigating different cyber security subject areas.
- more_corn 3y agoI knew a guy who swore by hack the box https://www.hackthebox.com/ https://www.hackthebox.com/ Flan scan is a pretty good tool to play around with.
- 0xE1337DAD 3y agoTryhackme.com has been the best resource for me.
- commandersaki 3y agoGo through https://pwn.college/ https://pwn.college/
- dev_0 3y ago[dead]
- BinaryBuddha 3y agoCheck out AccessCyber.co + and reach out if you would like to set up an AccessCyber Chapter at your university/ college. Thanks!
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- hayst4ck 3y agoCould you talk a bit more about your university, your club, the goals of this club, and the type of people showing up to the club? A university is a different place than a community college. A university with a quality CS program is a different place than a university without one. People from technical programs (using tools) can be very different than those in a science/engineering program (writing tools). Security before this class (or a similar class): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/ is a very very different beast than security after it. Red teaming is different than blue teaming. Defense is a nearly entirely different way of looking at security than offense. Reverse engineering/binary exploitation is a fairly different skill set than web exploitation. Is your goal to participate in competitions or just to be in a better position to get higher paying jobs?