I have compiled a list of good resources on GitHub
Some of the repositories are:
2020: The year of personal projects
Hi, hope everyone had a good semester. This years theme for UC3 will be personal projects. Our goal this semester is to help everyone expand their skills and gain relevant experience by working together and by experimenting with new tools.
Our first meeting will be on January 22nd at 4:00 in the Criminal Justice building.
A couple of our upcoming events:
January 25th - Game Night @ Boehlert Hall (6:00 PM)
January 29th - Organization Fair
Some of our current plans:
Studying/preparing for Security+ exam
Lock picking / privacy
UC3 holds a Game Night
Last night UC3 held a gaming night. We had a fun night of playing some video games with each others as well as some pizza and chips. This semester UC3 will have fun events every other week. The weeks we do not have a fun event planned we will have meetings on Wednesdays at 4 pm in the Cyber building. If you are interested in learning more or joining please sign up at https://pioneerplace.utica.edu/ or you can email me at mameade@utica.edu with any questions.
UC3 is back!
UC3 held its first meeting today. If you are interested in joining you can find us on Pioneer Place. Also join our discord to learn more information. Any major is allowed to join. Our purpose is to enhance cyber security skills as well as build strong relationships with each others. We plan on participating in some cyber security related competitions.
We plan on meeting Bi-Week. One week will be learning and the next week we have a social event.
Today meeting we talked about future plans, goals, trips, social activities.
Some of our technical ideas are:
Digispark
Forensic with Kegan ( Puzzles with open source tools)
SOC situation day
Poison Tap
CNY Basics ( Cryptography, stenography , blue Vs blue)
Events ideas:
x2 smash bro tournament
VM and Bash Event
Opsec/ Pricacy with Booby
collaboration with investment club and accounting association fraud and financial crime
How to code
How to make simple websites with HTML
collaboration with WIND in regards to women in the cyber world
Trips / Big Events
CNY hackathon
ANYCON 2019 - Tickets are $50 and cyber club members are free
National Cyber League - $35 - club member pays $15 out of pocket.
Follow us on Instagram
We now have a official Uc3 Instagram account. Follow us to see what we are up to.
CNY Hack-A-Thon 2019
Earlier this month, the CNY Hack-A-Thon was held at Utica college. UC3 members Justice Mitchell, Tristan Martin, and Cody Accorso were awarded MVP for their teams.
Minutes before scoring ended, Team 2 entered a flag and won the competition. The next Hack-A-Thon will be held during the fall semester at MVCC.
UC3 Member Apart of Team That Wins Award at Harvard Model U.N
Uc3 member, Luqman Khamizan, was one of the UC students that attended a model U.N at Harvard. The team won an award.
CNY Hackathon Fall 2018
Congratulations to Team 10 for coming in first place in the CNY Hackathon this semester! Derrek Saunders, Matt Baron and Keegan Moore were 3 of the members of team 10 who are also members of the Utica College Cybersecurity Club. This semesters event was located at Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) and featured a variety of different challenges including keeping services running while Red Team was attacking them, some capture the flag challenges and a few new ones where the competitors had to find rogue access points on a wireless network, fix DHCP servers in a virtualized environment and programming a small robot to navigate through a maze by itself! Good job to all who competed and we look forward to competing again next semester!
ANYCON 2018
Over the weekend of August 24th, a group of 10 members of the Utica College Cybersecurity club attended ANYCON in Albany, NY. This conference consisted of a number of different talks and other activities such as a hardware hacking village and Capture The Flag where different teams competed to capture the most flags by completing a series of challenges that dealt with topics like forensics, web application hacking, reverse engineering, networking and cryptography.
DEFCON 26
Over the weekend of August 9th - 12th, some students , faculty and alumni of the Utica College Cybersecurity Club attended DEFCON, the worlds largest and longest running hacking conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference consisted of a number of different talks and workshops. The talks and workshops helped outline how different devices and systems could be exploited. Overall, the conference was very informational and a lot of fun for those who attended!