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We are excited to offer our 6th Annual Texas Cyber Security Awareness Week (TexSAW) event. This year’s event will again target students who are interested in pursuing computer security. Students will be exposed to security concepts which will expand their knowledge of cyber security and broaden their career opportunities. Students will have the opportunity to:
Student hardware/software requirements:1. For the CTF competition, the participants will be provided a virtual machine with tools loaded onto for use during the event. The system requirements for the virtual machine include: an x64 processor, 2GB RAM, and at least 5GB of available disk space. The programs required to install the virtual machine are VirtualBox and Vagrant. The participants would want to install VirtualBox and Vagrant on their laptops before coming to the event. 2. For web security workshop, a laptop with a web browser will be sufficient. 3. For pentesting workshop, a laptop with 6 GB RAM (preferred) and VMWare Workstation Player installed on the laptop (the latest version that can be freely downloaded from vmware web site). 4. For crypto workshop, John the Ripper tool to be installed on a laptop. Alternatively, participants can install Kali linux virtual machine on their laptops. Kali linux comes with John the Ripper by default. Download links of related software: - VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads - Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html - VMware Workstation Player: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation_player/12_0 - John the Ripper: http://www.openwall.com/john/ - Kali Linux: https://www.kali.org/downloads/ NEW - Metasploitable Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/metasploitable/files/Metasploitable2/
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