Computer Network Operations Development Program (CNODP) Class of 2023

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Computer Code

Yesterday HRC released MILPER message 19-233 which announced applications for the Computer Network Operations Development Program (CNODP) class of 2023.  For those of you not familiar with it, CNODP is the Army’s school for training future cyber tool developers.  CNODP is comprised of the System and Network Interdisciplinary Program (SNIP), the Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst (GNEVA) Development Program (GDP), and the Joint Cyber Development Program (JCDP).

Hide Your Privates

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So I learned a pretty tough lesson today. I was doing some research for a project at work (which was going to be the original topic of today’s post) on which required me to setup a SOCKs proxy through AWS. I logged onto AWS, configured a small instance and went to spin it up when I got an error message saying that I didn’t have permissions to do this.

Black Friday Deals

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Black Friday

Here are the current deals that I am tracking related to info sec and other general nerdery.  Will update as I can. Here we go again! Pastebin – Lifetime Pro Acct. Deal: $19.95 (normally $49.95) Dates: Current – 11/27 Link: https://pastebin.com/pro?coupon=blackfri Source: https://twitter.com/pastebin/status/1064836723388149760 Shodan – Lifetime Deal: $5 (normally $49) Dates: 11/23 – 11/26 Link: »

Warrant Officer Promotions

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Warrant Ranks

For the first time in a very long time, the warrant officer promotion board results were actually released in the same FY as when the board actually met!  First let me say congrats to everyone that was selected for promotion.  Before I go into the numbers, let me preface this by saying that these numbers »

Honey Pots Get a Little Less Sticky

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The other day a friend of mine shared a link to a new academic paper that was just released by a couple of researchers at the University of Cambridge.  The team, Alexander Vetterl and Richard Clayton, wanted to see if they could create a technique to identify publicly accessible honeypots without having to actually interact with them.

COMSEC Is Dead….Long Live COMSEC

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COMSEC

Whenever the Army creates a new Military Occupational Specialty (MOS), they have to fill it with bodies initially that aren’t actually the MOS. In late 2013 the Army graduated its first class of the new 25D Cyber Network Defender MOS.  Shorty there after, the 25D, were placed into the unit COMSEC vaults to do a job that they were never designed to do.

Cyber Chief

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Cyber Chief

Yes that’s right after over 19 years of wearing signal orange I have traded it in for cyber grey.