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“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

It’s Day 2 of InfoSec Week at UC Baseline, the cybersecurity training program offered by Tampa Bay’s security guild, The Undercroft. I’ve fired up Kali — a distribution of Linux made for cybersecurity types and other troublemakers — and am marveling at the hacking goodies contained within. I’ll write more as we go through the […]

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UC Baseline report: It’s week 4, and now it REALLY begins

Now begins the fourth week out of five weeks at Tampa Bay security guild The Undercroft, where I’ve been taking part in UC Baseline, their cybersecurity course. This is their inaugural class, and I’ve been documenting my experiences as part of that cohort. This week is the heart of the course — Information Security 101. […]

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UC Baseline: Windows security

We’re on the back half of Week 3 of UC Baseline, the cybersecurity training program being given by The Undercroft, Tampa Bay’s cybersecurity guild and security-focused coworking space. We just finished three days of Linux 101, which was mostly an intro to command-line Linux, and now it’s time for two days of Windows from a […]

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The “Tampa Teen” behind the “Twitter Hack”

The good news: Tampa Bay is the location of one of the biggest high-tech stories of the year! The bad news: It’s because the breach that everyone calls the “Twitter Hack,” in which several verified accounts were used to scam people out of an estimated $100,000 in a single day, has been traced to a […]

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Supplementary UC Baseline notes #3: Videos to prep for this week’s Linux program

Week 3 of The Undercroft’s UC Baseline cybersecurity program is about to begin, and it’s all about operating systems! From Monday to Wednesday, it’s Linux from a cybersecurity point of view, and we’ll close out the week with Windows. Not all of us are programmers, and not all of us live in the command line. […]

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Next week’s “UC Baseline” courses cover Windows and Linux, and I’m ready!

Today marks the end of the second week of The Undercroft’s 5-week cybersecurity training program, UC Baseline. This week was a quick but in-depth (we each had a Cisco switch to configure) introduction to networking. Next week, we look at Windows and Linux from a security perspective. I have some familiarity with the operating systems […]

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Scenes from UC Baseline’s “Networking 101” class

Here’s my daily view for seven hours a day for the next little while, as I’m part of the inaugural cohort of UC Baseline, the 5-week cybersecurity training program from Tampa bay’s security guild, The Undercroft: Last week was devoted entirely to the “Hardware 101” part of the program. Here’s a video summary of what […]