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#CyberChats Podcast Summer Episode: Finding Your Way - How to Get Through the "Lost in the Woods" Challenge

Thursday, July 18, 2024Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Keep those fans on MAX cyberheads! In this episode of the #CyberChats special edition summer series, we continue to build on our theme of system security.

To start, we walk through our thought process and some techniques for solving this month's Cyber Challenge on MetaCTF: Lost in the Woods. If you had a different methodology, let us know. Next we explore some ways to defeat credential stuffing and keep our online accounts safe. What is credential stuffing? How can we protect ourselves without being paranoid? Why is using multiple emails a good idea?

By the end of this episode, you'll have a better understanding of some new tools, like nmap, curl, and netcat, as well as another Cyber Challenge win.

Topics discussed: networking, nmap, curl, netcat, ssh, credential stuffing, account safety.