Spring 2024 Fall 2024 Prior Terms

This dissemination workshop will present the activities of the two NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) CyberCorp sponsored sections of the CSUB REVS-UP summer program. These two sections focus on cybersecurity and cryptography. One of the goals of the grant is to raise awareness of security issues and to encourage high school students to pursue careers in information security.

10:00-10:20am	Welcome Remarks and Introductions
10:20-11:10am	Materials from Cybersecurity section
11:00-Noon	Materials from Cryptography section
Noon-1:00pm	Working lunch: Break into small groups to discuss materials
1:00-2:00pm	Report back from groups and workshop-wide discussions
2:00-2:45pm	Results from student surveys for summer 2013
2:45-3:00pm	Complete paperwork for workshop stipend

Lecture Notes:

• Introduction, Ethics, Operational Security, Passwords
• Authentication Protocols
• More on Authentication Protocols, Best Practices for Passwords
• Password Patterns, Secure Authentication
• TCP/IP Networking
• Network Attacks
• Malware Terminology and Basics
• Why Compromises Matter: Access Control
• Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), Security Practices Online

Social Engineering Prezi Presentations by Alfonso Puga (CSUB Student Assistant):

Alfonso prepared the social engineering notes given to the students. Most of the Prezi presentation is images, as Alfonso would narrate along with the presentations. We do not have transcripts of the narration available.
Note: Prezi offline presentations only run on Windows

• Introduction to Social Engineering
• Information Gathering
• Communication Modeling
• Elicitation

Activities and Tools:

• Password Complexity and Cracking Speed
• Use of the oclHashcat-plus Tool

Worksheets:

• Substitution Ciphers
• Divisibility
• Congruence
• Greatest Common Divisor
• Diophantine Equations
• Affine Cipher
• RSA Algorithm: Part 1
• RSA Algorithm: Part 2
• Hash Functions: Part 1
• Hash Functions: Part 2
• Vigenere Table

Maple Lab Modules:

• Module 1
• Module 2
• Module 3
• Module 4

• Elliptic Enigma
• Fact-or Fiction
• Zero Knowledge, We Know Everything
• Crack Me if You Can: Using GPU Machines to Crack Passwords
• Defense Against Human Hacking

• Special Services Form

Please fill out, print, and sign the Special Services form before leaving the workshop. Instructions will be given at the end of the workshop.

• Information Security concentration in Computer Science @ CSUB