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Recent content by Michael Pawlik

  1. Michael Pawlik

    Cybersecurity/Capture the Flag exercise for students

    I was going to ask during one of the A+ TTT sessions but it seemed out of place (at the time, @Allen Stubblefield has piqued my interest in the area and getting it on his radar is a good idea. I was at a bSides conference here in Central Mississippi when some students brought in a CtF on a...
  2. Michael Pawlik

    Cybersecurity/Capture the Flag exercise for students

    I've been wanting to put together a cybersecurity or capture the flag challenge, or even better find something already created, to allow students to put into practice what they have learned. However, I'm not sure where to begin. The system would have to be virtual to allow the use of certain...
  3. Michael Pawlik

    TCP/80 vs TCP/143

    The question did not mention S/MIME or email. I do wish the question didn’t have to be so tricky and I wish the explanation would explain what “HTTPS applications”might mean and even further explain the logic behind the question. I realize that CompTIA is trying to test ‘assimilation of...
  4. Michael Pawlik

    TCP/80 vs TCP/143

    I think the program got confused and mixed-up mail and internet. This seemed to happen between asking the question and presenting the answers. Port 80 is HTTP and HTTPS is port 443. The question might have thought it was talking about securing email, but that isn't the question.