Urban Nerd Labs

CyberTools

About the Urban Nerd Labs

Project Lead

Alton Henley

Sr. Director,
Information Technology Institute
Montgomery College
Gaithersburg, Md 20877
Email: ajhenley@gmail.com
Tel: 240-567-3826

Contributors:
Diem Nguyen
Afua Ankomah
Ricardo Benlizar
Simeon Kakpovi

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KillChain

The Cybersecurity Card Game

FEATURES:
  • Models the cyber landscape and the factors that students should be aware of.
  • Allows students to combine a variety of attacks, exploit/payload combinations, command line tools and mitigations to simulate fighting a cyberwar.
  • Students are able to mimic strategies used in real attacks.
  • Students are able to come up with their own strategies.
  • Most Importantly: Shows the value of defense in depth.

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Packets

The Shattering

FEATURES:
  • Using playing cards demonstrates transmission of both files and streams over packet switching networks.
  • Students emulate the behavior of routers, switches and hubs.
  • Demonstrates the transmission of TCP and UDP.
  • Demonstrates BGP, ICMP, DoS, and DDoS.

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Bunny Web

The Vulnerable Web Application

FEATURES:
  • Presents easy to use example applications for examining the most common OWASP 10 vulnerabilities.
  • A single cohesive application that has all the vulnerabilities, but isn’t just a stub application.
  • Scannable by ZAP and Burp Suite.
  • Useful as test app for sqlmap.

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Et Tu

Caeser Ciphering

FEATURES:
  • Presents an easy way to generate practice problems for learning to decode substitution and rotation ciphers.
  • Provides a helper application for decoding ciphers.

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Hide and Go Read

Public Key Encryption

FEATURES:
  • Presents easy to use example applications for demonstrating the usage of public-private encryption.
  • Teachers can create a sandbox for their students to send messages to each other using PKI.

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