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Linux startup process lecture



02/07 - iptables lecture.

01/30 - Lecture on the LAMP stack. Files can be downloaded here: 01/23 - First lecture will be covered again for those who were unable to attend last week. **1pm, IT Lab**.



01/19 - Second meeting on **January 19th at 1pm** in the **IT LAB**. Slides can be downloaded here: 01/17 - The slides for the first meeting can be downloaded here: 01/16 - We will have our first meeting on **January 16th at 12 noon**. Then we will have meetings every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday Until 3/1 from 1pm till 4pm.

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=What is it?= The UMBCDC is a cyber defense competition on the UMASS Boston campus. It is a series of low pressure events organized by people that love cyber security. Cyber security involves hacking and defending computers. The objective of these events is to give you the ability to walk into a disaster situation and regain control of a system infrastructure while it is under attack. These skills are also useful to create new technologies such as twitter, kayak, and amazon EC2. The skills needed to create these technologies require thinking outside the box to make technology do what you want.

For our event we will have teams of around 3-4 students. We urge teams to contain at least one IT major and one CS major. Your team will be given a machine to try things and play with. You will use this machine to learn with during the week by installing software and changing settings. During competitions (planned on Saturdays) teams will be given a new machine that they have to fix and secure. These machines will be filled with security flaws that a red team can exploit. A red team will consist of hackers that want to mess up your competition computer.

=Don't think you have what it takes?=
 * You might be saying "But Joe I can't commit to going to all those sessions." It's ok then don't. But try to go to as many of them as you can. And never quit!
 * You might say "But Joe, I'm not good enough! I'll just waste everyones time." Not true. You have to start somewhere! Why not start with people that welcome n00bs?
 * You might be saying something related to scheduling and jobs and that you are busy with some nonsense. If you can't make it on time it's cool. Just show up late or leave early!

=To prepare=

You will need to learn Linux. The first two weeks we expect to be talking about that most of the time. We need you guys to come up with things to talk about though. These meetings are for you to ask questions so we can all start talking about things. Like how cron executes stuff as the user even though it launches as root. We will have slides to cover things in case people don't have questions.

Click here to get started.

Here are some links for you start reading by yourself before the meetings:

=**Commands:**= We have a list of commands you should know here: Commands you should know Basic Basics (for those who don't know the command line): [] Some writeups about linux commands: [] Linux runlevels: [] Linux Services: [] Linux Services: [] ncat: [] =Software:= Ubuntu [] Apache [] MySQL [] Debian Package Management: [] Wordpress: []

=Exploitation Software:= Metasploit: []

=Defense Software:= Snort: [] rkhunter: [] netstat: [] Wireshark: [] iptables: []