====== Cyber Security ======

This groups is focused on the security aspects of computers, networking, Linux, and other neat things!
 
====== 2021 Notes ======

===== June 9, 2021 =====

  * Racoons
  * Cyberforce Competition
    * Chase's experience at the 2016 competition. ♥
  * Conquer the Hill
  * Chase - Cyberforce Competition work probably won't happen before the start of the semester.
  * Chase - What else did we want to do?
  * Cody - Single-Sign On / Directory Options
    * Keycloak
    * Jumpcloud - Seems to be a PaaS. Need to pay $$$
    * Directory389 - Java
    * FreeIPA - Very "black-boxy" and wants a dedicated box for it's own use.
    * SambaAD - ACM@UIC used to use this before we switched to Microsoft AD.
  * By next meeting, let's plan to decide on which SSO option to use. Do some independent research if you have time.
  * Cody & Chase - Getting into Ansible. Infrastructure as Code.

===== May 26, 2021 =====

  * First Summer meeting
  * Created a VM to test on DigitalOcean
    * gate.lug.acmapp.tech
    * Added the users in this current meeting to the virtual machine.
  * Introduced the idea of SSH Keys and public-private keypairs
  * Fail2ban - A utility used to prevent malicious login attempts
  * IPTables/nftables/firewalld - CLI utilities used to interact with nettables for changing network stack parameters.
  * Looking at fail2ban-firewalld, however it was only on CentOS-based systems.

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====== 2020 Notes ======

**{First meeting}** 01/30/2020
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   General introduction of members
   Welcome slide was presented, advice on how to run group by former president.
   Activities to consider:
     * Cyber Force Competition - Nationwide
     * Def Con convention
     * Wireshark 
     * highjack radio frequencies
     * comptia network A+
   
   Homework: Look up basic information on networks and how they work.

**{Second meeting}** 02/20/2020
   Went over the basics of network components:
     * Routers/Switch
     * Access Point
     * MODEM
     * Server
     * The Cloud
     * Internal vs external networks and further branching
   
   Had a talk with a senior in LUG/ACM office, talked about working of:
     * Ports
     * VPN
     * Proxy
     * LAN vs WAN
     * Static vs Dynamic IPs
     * Router to router connection programs
     * schematics of routers containing IP addresses
     * Origins of IP from IPv4 to IPv6
   
   Homework: Set up a virtual network in ACM/LUG office
   
**{Third meeting}** 09/14/2020
   First meeting for Fall 2020:
     * Introductions
     * Suggested activities + Readings
   Homework: Read up on provided books - Dummies( 2 chapters) & Set books( SQL and Linux 2-3 chapters)
   

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====== 2019 Notes ======

**{Pre-activity Meeting with former group president}** 09/25/2019
   Discussed previous activities before the group was inactive:
     * Bug Bounties
     * Sniffing Packets
     * Network Engineering
     * Playing with malware
     * Keylogging
     * Capture The Flag competitions - google CTF
     * root certificates
     * Generally an interest run group

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