Cybersecurity

[Daniel-4114]

Create a module based on the May 18, 2022 lecture by Dr. Hansen.

Activities:

• run cat /etc/shadow to see password hashes. (requires root privileges)

[Daniel-4114]

Here's a few thoughts for materials that may be good for your summer students to work on:
https://www.hacksplaining.com/lessons - these are simple, fun intros to some of the most common types of attacks.
Set up HTTPS with Let'sEnrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/
Practice hacking Google's purposefully insecure site: http://google-gruyere.appspot.com/ (or see other similar things here: https://dst.com.ng/15-vulnerable-sites-legally-practice-hacking-skills/
Play around with AES symmetric key encryption: https://www.javainuse.com/aesgenerator

Play around with RSA asymmetric key encryption: https://www.devglan.com/online-tools/rsa-encryption-decryption

I've also copied in Ian Cook who is in charge of our Cybersecurity Student Academic Association. Ian, Mike Wirthlin and other ECEN faculty are working with their students this summer and wanted to have them do some hands-on cybersecurity-related activities. I've listed a few above that may be fun, but wanted to ask if you had some other pointers to websites or tools that may be good for them to mess around with. They range from Sophomores to Seniors in the ECEN program, but have little exposure to cybersecurity content. I just did an intro lecture on the CIA triangle and encryption basics.

Derek

[Zach227]

Time Spent

• Mean: 1.5384615384615385
• Median: 1.5
• Max: 3.0
• Min: 0.5
• Full Data: 0.5, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.5, 1.5, 1.5, 2.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.0

Comments

• Very interesting. Not something I think about enough considering how important it is.
• The presentation was great! There is no module, although I know that it is in development.
• Well, there was no "security" module per say, but I did attend the Bootcamp meeting related to security.
• I'm filling this out now since no activities have been posted and this will close in 2 days (I want to make sure it's completed before it closes), but if we do get sent any activities I will do them.
• This module isn't finished yet, so it should probably be finished.
• none
• i thought it was fine
• none
• There isn't a module yet, but I really enjoyed the lecture.
• I thought that this was pretty cool. This is another thing that I wish that we learned more about during earlier classes. I think that this was a great addition to the Computing Bootcamp.
• It would be cool to have a module on it.

[Daniel-4114]

Once we have the zoom recording (maybe with edits/timestamps?) we can start the module page for this