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| The login page we were supposed to get past |
This weekend I finished my first final project for the
semester. Yeah, it’s a little early, I
know, but at least this way it can’t cause problems with my other final
projects. For Computer and Network
Security, a number of us chose to participate in the National Cyber League’s
Postseason Game as our final project.
The National Cyber League runs an online cybersecurity competition twice
a year consisting of a preseason (warm up game to rank everyone), 1-2 regular
season games (a weekend of individual competition), and a postseason game (a
weekend of team play). Lewis and Clark
hosted two teams and I’m pleased to say we did better than the other team, even
though they had the TA.
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| Chrome's developer tools |
Security has been a fun class and we have learned a
lot. My final presentation will likely
be on one of the websites I broke onto during the postseason. It was really
poorly secured; most websites do a much better job. The only tool you needed were the developer
tools in most web browsers. I probably
shouldn’t give away an answer to a competition’s question so I won’t give
specifics, but basically when you attempted to log in it checked the password
you entered against a password stored in the source code of the website. You could easily find it when poking through
with the developer tools.
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| The flag you see once you get in |
For Thanksgiving, I’ll be joining my roommate in Chicago. I really look forward to the break, but somehow,
I feel I won’t be catching up on any sleep.
Have any questions?
Please email me at ameliaberle@lclark.edu
PS
You don't have to be a computer expert to take Security. It only requires Computer Science I.