This repository is an Obsidian Vault aimed at helping Blue Teams prepare for the NCAE Cyber Games. It's currently a work in progress and some notes are incomplete.
To view and edit these notes, you can download the repo and open them in any markdown editor/viewer you'd like - though they are intended to be opened as a vault within Obsidian.
This page (the README) is intended to be the homepage within this vault. You can access all pages from here.
[!warning]+ WARNING - Practice Using the Correct Environment! The competition this year is going to be using a MicroTik router, NOT CentOS (as it is no longer maintained). This was announced on the NCAE Discord.
A new video was posted on the NCAE channel that goes over the new Mini Hack in the same way as the old one. It's very similar to the first Mini Hack and approachable even if you haven't watched the rest of the playlist after the video for the first Mini Hack.
[!list] Relevant Links
- NCAE Sandbox Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqux0fXsj7x3WYm6ZWuJnGC1rXQZ1018M
- Competition Rules: https://www.ncaecybergames.org/rules/
- NCAE Discord: https://discord.ncaecybergames.org/
- Questions answered by NCAE staff (Discord):
- "What is the line where an online service must be disclosed?" https://discord.com/channels/624969095292518401/1339009691044544542
Notes from NCAE's Sandbox Tutorial Videos. These use the Mini Hack environment to teach players some fundamental concepts you might need for the competition.
- [[NCAE Tutorial Playlist Notes| Tutorial Playlist Table of Contents]]
- Or start from the beginning: [[1 Intro to the Environment]]
Players might find this information useful when developing a strategy.
Copy/paste and automatic guest screen resizing are not available via the default in-browser remote desktop experience NCAE provides. If you want these features, you should make sure you know how to set them up:
- [[SPICE Configuration - Remote Desktop Shared Clipboard and Screen Resizing]]
A brainstormed list of potential attack vectors and corresponding defenses:
- [[System Hardening Ideas]]
Most of these are either in-progress, incomplete, or disorganized:
- [[NCAE misc]]
- [[NCAE-minihack CentOS]]
- [[Example Scripts]]
- [[Other Tools to Consider]]
- [[Quickdraw Notes]]