Yes that’s right after over 19 years of wearing signal orange I have traded it in for cyber grey.
Cyber Chief
How to Train (According to the Signal Branch)
So this morning I was checking my email at work and discovered a message announcing the official publication of TC 6-02.1 (The United States Army Signal Corps Training Strategy). According to it’s preface this TC “provides training guidelines and strategies to develop and certify the proficiency of signal collective tasks in support of maneuver operations.”
I Hate Amazon
FYI, this post is more of a rant than anything else so feel free not to read it. Many of you probably don’t know but I have a 10 year old daughter and a 6 year old son. A few years ago for Christmas we bought them both these Kindle kids editions. The thing is really just a normal kindle, but it comes with a plastic protector around it (which is actually pretty damn beefy) and more importantly, it comes preconfigured with their “Freetime” application that basically sandboxes the kids account and greatly limits what they can do and get to. It also comes with free content like a number of applications as well as age appropriate books, etc.
Signal Chief Is Legit Now!
A couple of months ago I got an email from the training developer for the 25W SLC course asking if it would be possible for them to use some of the articles that I’ve posted here as a daily handout to be used for a short 15 minute discussion.
May Selection Board Results
This was a busy month with board results to post for both 170A, 255A, and 255N.
FY19 Warrant Officer Selection Schedule
Earlier this week HRC released MILPER message 18-144 which announced the schedule for the FY19 Warrant Officer Selection Board.
Happy Birth(day) CYBERCOM
Today marked several historic events for the Department of Defense. In the course of a couple of hours, three big events happened.
Birth of Spam
So this morning I was listening to the radio on the drive into work when the DJ made an interesting statement. Turns out….he was right. Today marks the 40th anniversary of the very first spam message.
Boss of the SOC
Back in November I had the chance to attend the Splunk .conf conference here in DC. One of the big after hours events of the conference is the Boss of the SOC (BOTS) competition that puts teams against each other to try and analyze a set of data to identify a variety of indicators of compromise from an incident. After a little bit of talking, Splunk decided to release the BOTS app as an open-source project.
cyrptogram
Here is another CTF problem from last years Army Cyber Stakes Challenge. You are provided a solid line of characters (see below) and have to turn it into the flag. The trick is that because there aren’t any line breaks, you have to figure it out.