Cyber
Unicorns
Welcome to the
Cyber
Unicorns
Our Activities
CyberUnicorns is a student-led club at NCSSM dedicated to cybersecurity and it's opportunities. CyberUnicorns strives to engage the NCSSM community with cybersecurity through education, capture the flag challenges, possible scholarships. By teaching others about cybersecurity, we hope to inform them about the various tactics of hackers and how they can keep their own websites and even themselves safe. Scroll down to join us!
Here are some of our recent activities!
Our Calendar
Learn Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is one of the fastest growing career paths in the world. With techniques through programming, web exploitation, linux tools, and cryptography, there's so much to learn about this fascinating topic!
CyberStart America
A capture the flag compeition that students from across the United States compete in. CyberStart America is the most enjoyable way to discover your talent, advance your skills and win scholarships in cybersecurity! Click here to learn more.
picoCTF
Developed by Carnegie Mellon, picoCTF is a capture the flag cybersecurity game for high school students. Join CyberUnicorns as we tackle various problems from this competition!
Scholarships
With CyberUnicorns, you can win scholarships from The National Cyber Scholarship Foundation. With award levels for Semifinalist, Finalist, National Cyber Scholar, and National Cyber Scholar with honors, it's not too difficult to boost your college resume!
Join Us
All experience levels welcome
Gain leadership positions
Win Scholarships
Learn about programming, hacking, and cryptography
Solve capture-the-flag challenges
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Fill out the member information form
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Come to one of our meetings!
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Join our Facebook Group
Thursdays @ 8:40 - 9:20 PM
Room: Engineering Suite
Topics we Cover
Web
Manipulating URLs to access hidden files
How to use cookies to spoof a website
Cookies and local storage
Cross site scripting
Command injection
SQL
Web scraping
JavaScript and PHP
Cryptography
Encryption vs Encoding
Ciphers (substitution, caesar, ROT, arnold, atbash, etc)
Hashing and tools
ASCII, Hex, QR codes and barcodes, Morse Code, Base64/32, UTF-8
Linux
Terminal commands (cat, ls, whoami, cd, running programs, ssh, netcat, bash scripting)
Linux distributions and VMs
Binary (buffer overflows, bugs, memory)
Bash scripting
TCP & UDP
Tools
Python
Wireshark
Netcat