Earlier this month, I attended The Diana Initiative (TDI) conference in Las Vegas. Looking to challenge myself out of my comfort zone and to learn something new, I signed up for TDI’s Blackhoodie Reverse Engineering workshop. Below is more about my experience at the workshop and some conference session takeaways. The Diana Initiative …

A cybersecurity CTF write-up of Cyber Threat Intelligence and Reverse Engineering challenges — This past month, I participated in my first ever CTF: the 2023 Target Cyber Defense Challenge, offered for WiCyS members. It was extremely valuable in that it gave me hands-on experience and a taste as to what it’s like to be on a cyber defense team up against the threat…

A cybersecurity CTF write-up of USB Forensics challenges — This past month, I participated in my first ever CTF: the 2023 Target Cyber Defense Challenge, offered for WiCyS members. It was extremely valuable in that it gave me hands-on experience and a taste as to what it’s like to be on a cyber defense team up against the threat…

a cybersecurity CTF write-up of Cryptography/ Steganography challenges from the Target Cyber Defense Challenge — This past month, I participated in my first ever CTF: the 2023 Target Cyber Defense Challenge, offered for WiCyS members. It was extremely valuable in that it gave me hands-on experience and a taste as to what it’s like to be on a cyber defense team up against the threat…

A vulnerability analysis of Adobe Premiere Rush using the NIST’s National Vulnerability Database Search and Statistics feature. — As someone who enjoys creating and editing videos, Adobe Premiere Rush has become my favorite go-to software product for its ease and accessibility. While Premiere Rush is a part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, along with other popular applications such as Photoshop, it can also be used stand-alone. I…

Encryption is a type of defense used that encodes or enciphers a message so that the true meaning or contents of that message are not obvious. It disguises the data so that it is not easy to read, modify, or fabricate. Encryption plays a subtle yet important role in one’s…

Understanding the signs and effects of DoS & DDoS attacks — In my most recent computer networking course, I reviewed many of the networking fundamentals and explored different attacks. DoS is one that I had heard many times before but never really understood what it meant or how it worked, so here’s a quick overview: Denial of Service, or DoS, is…

Understanding what key management is, the complexities of key management and how the length of the encryption key ends up impacting the overall strength of an encryption algorithm. Keys are used in encryption to provide additional security to a user or system. The two primary examples of encryption keys are symmetric and asymmetric keys. A symmetric key, or a secret key, works for both encryption and decryption, and if this key remains secret, then the system provides authenticity…

Not in a tech job but want to be? Check this list out — No Coding Required There’s plenty of space out here in the tech world and many exciting jobs that don’t require you to be good at coding and programming. Business Analyst Researching solutions, analyzing data, and making recommendations is the bread and butter of a business analyst. The best description to understand the importance and role…