VTCC Cyber Team

VTCC Cyber Team Welcome to the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets Cyber Team page. The team finishes each year by competing in the NSA Cyber Exercise (NCX)

The VTCC Cyber Team competes year round in Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions along with training throughout each week.

Cadets Grant Smith and Jane Lawing took home second place at SMC Cyberfusion this Tuesday. Beating out most of the other...
04/19/2023

Cadets Grant Smith and Jane Lawing took home second place at SMC Cyberfusion this Tuesday. Beating out most of the other SMCs with only two players.

Happy Hacking Holidays from the VTCC Cyber Team! Don’t let your family and visitors join your home network! Make sure to...
12/23/2022

Happy Hacking Holidays from the VTCC Cyber Team! Don’t let your family and visitors join your home network! Make sure to segment your network to keep those on the naughty list away from you.

This weekend: The VTCC Cyber Team placed 22/141 teams in the Department of Energy’s CyberForce CTF. Participants include...
11/06/2022

This weekend: The VTCC Cyber Team placed 22/141 teams in the Department of Energy’s CyberForce CTF. Participants included other top name universities, industry professionals and security researchers in a hybrid environment in St. Charles, Illinois.

The competition included defending a set of Industrial Control Systems in a virtualized environment from a live red team while answering anomalies/CTF questions. We look forward to participating again next year.

Next weekend the Corps Cyber Team will be traveling to Chicago to compete in the Department of Cyberforce competition. ...
10/29/2022

Next weekend the Corps Cyber Team will be traveling to Chicago to compete in the Department of Cyberforce competition. This is a great CTF where we get to defend actual industrial control systems, create security reports, and present our findings to a C-Suite panel.

These past 3 days members of the team, Cadets Grant Smith, Zac Harmeyer, Justin Perez, and Thomas Rydzewski, have been c...
10/13/2022

These past 3 days members of the team, Cadets Grant Smith, Zac Harmeyer, Justin Perez, and Thomas Rydzewski, have been competing in the Army Central Command Best Cyber Warrior Competition and, after a hard fought battle, placed 2nd overall out of 59 team, including active, reserve, and allied units.

Day one concluded with the team in first place and they maintained that lead until less than an hour before closing.

Thank you for the great competition!

These past 3 days members of the team, Cadets Grant Smith, Zac Harmeyer, Justin Perez, and Thomas Rydzewski, have been c...
10/13/2022

These past 3 days members of the team, Cadets Grant Smith, Zac Harmeyer, Justin Perez, and Thomas Rydzewski, have been competing in the Army Central Command Best Cyber Warrior Competition and, after a hard fought battle, placed ‼️2nd overall ‼️out of 59 team, including active, reserve, and allied units.

Day one concluded with the team in first place and they maintained that lead until less than an hour before closing.

Thank you for the great competition!

10/13/2022

That’s us!

It is Cyber Tech Tip Tuesday, everyone! Want to know information about a specific network? Have you ever tried the nmap ...
09/06/2022

It is Cyber Tech Tip Tuesday, everyone! Want to know information about a specific network? Have you ever tried the nmap tool, because you need to!

nmap, which stands for Network Mapper, will scan an IP address for running services on open ports, OS system versions, service versions, and much more. Why would you want this information? Well, especially for reconnaissance, simply knowing what operating system and service versions can determine if a network has a vulnerability to be exploited. If your service version isn’t up to date, there could be a previous hole that you haven’t updated on your network yet! Use this for Ethical Hacking or Red Teaming your own or someone else's network (with their permission!) Also, don’t just go around scanning any and every network, it is a legal grey area to do so! Only do it with authorized access or on your networks.

The turnout was amazing for our first Cyber Team meetings! Get your VMs setup, and come ready to learn for future meetin...
09/06/2022

The turnout was amazing for our first Cyber Team meetings! Get your VMs setup, and come ready to learn for future meetings!

This past week the Cyber Team got to attend DEFCON in Las Vegas to gain more hands on security experience, as well as n...
08/16/2022

This past week the Cyber Team got to attend DEFCON in Las Vegas to gain more hands on security experience, as well as network with the tens of thousands of fellow hackers attending.

Thank you to the for arranging this amazing experience for the cadets and students.

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We are back with Cyber-Tech tips Tuesday! Topic Today - NDAs and AI!A Google Engineer recently violated his NDA to expos...
06/15/2022

We are back with Cyber-Tech tips Tuesday! Topic Today - NDAs and AI!

A Google Engineer recently violated his NDA to expose a possibly sentient AI to the public developed by Google. Whether he was correct or not - he still should not have violated his NDA. People are always the easiest Information Security vulnerability - like this Engineer who willingly unveiled information that could negatively impact Google. An NDA is the last promise between an employee and a company to not unveil work and secrets about a company.

If something unethical is happening, report it to your team, management, HR or other higher sources internally. Solve from within until it's no longer possible!

Google has stated that the Lamda AI has simply learned how to speak like humans and understand conversation. Who do YOU think is right?

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