HACKINT

I presented an idea to some of the members of AFCEA Chapter 158 at Ramstein AB, Germany and got a positive response so I want to share what’s going on with hackINT right now.  Every year there is a Summer Tech Expo at Ramstein Air Base that shows off the latest in military communications technology to the base and raises money through vendor fees that goes entirely towards free education scholarships for military members and their families in the region. Last year I hosted hackINT Con 2012 there with a capture the flag contest.  This year, I wanted to step it up some and get more training out there to people.  So what hackINT will be doing in partnership with AFCEA Chapter 158 is hosting a four day training session followed by a competition.

How it’ll work: Numerous Commanders of Communications Squadrons around Ramstein Air Base are going to send 4 students who are interested to 4 days of training.  The training will take place June 29/30 and July 13/14. Commanders are going to give the members day passes so that they can still get time off at a later date for giving up their Saturday and Sunday. The training will be a holistic approach of teaching all four core disciplines at hackINT: Forensics, Intelligence, Hacking, and Defense. I’m currently developing a few extra classes so I can teach all four disciplines and will debut them at this training event. Students will take a skills measuring test before and after the training so that some sort of metric can be obtained on how they performed and how they felt their skills developed.  At the end of the training, at the Summer Tech Expo, there will be a competition where students will have to use all four disciplines to gain points and win.  The teams will be made up of the Squadrons’ members that attended the training.

This is going to be a huge event and so far has a number of Squadrons already participating. So to not take away from the event and to give it my full focus I will be putting all my time in hackINT towards this event.  Post this event there will be more classes offered to the public including those debuted at the training event.

Thanks!

Robert

I’m excited to announce that this Saturday, April 6th, I will be hosting an event titled Train-the-Trainers.  This will be the first of numerous events where I will be teaching classes to representatives at different Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association (AFCEA) chapters around the world so that they can freely teach people in their area.  The event has come about from great discussions that occurred at the annual AFCEA West conference in San Diego, California and is due in no small part to the Young AFCEA Council.

The first two classes to be taught to the trainers are the DEF 100 and DEF 202 classes.  These classes teach the fundamentals of computers and defense as well as packet analysis and intrusion detection systems.  The participating chapters so far include chapters from Germany, Texas, Alabama, Virginia, and Washington DC.  More chapters will be trained up in the future with additional classes being given to the instructors to continually train personnel in their area.

I want to thank all those people who end up attending for stepping up to learn a little bit more about the cyberspace domain in an effort to freely educate the community; that is awesome dedication and I greatly appreciate it.

All the best,

Rob