The Home of The Cyber Knights
Recently I was reading about a ransomware attack on a company known as CDK. CDK is a software company that specializes in software for car dealerships. They were recently hit with a massive cyber attack that was most likely a ransomware based attack. CDK claims that it manages 2 Petabytes of transaction data regarding cars….
May 1st was Cyber Night at the CCRI Warwick Campus. It is the biggest event of the year for our Club. We have several guest speakers, and several businesses and colleges showed up to talk about what they are offering in terms of careers and offerings to continue education. Among guest speakers we had State…
Friday the 19th this April began the NCL team game. This is the final part of the NCL competition, and it has us all working in teams to solve many different cyber problems. Overall, the general mood of the competition is much better than when we did NCAE on March 9th. NCAE was overly cryptic…
Today I had a conversation with several club members on passwords. The most recent NIST recommendations say that having a password expiration policy is not good practice (in other words, new evidence has come to show that what we thought was good practice is not actually good practice). The idea behind rotating passwords was that…
April 4th was CCRI day at the state house. Myself, Chris Allen, Thomas Aubee, and Club Secretary Maria Rodriguez set up a table for CCRI day and gave demonstrations on how to crack a password and showed off a live map of cyber attacks in real time. Among other things, we got to meet the…
