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USA Cybersecurity Olympiad (USACyO)

USACyO organizes the USA Cybersecurity Olympiad (USACyO) for K-12 students.This is the only path way to be on Team USA for International Cybersecurity Olympiad (ICO).

USACyO Testing Content

Cryptography

  • Classical Ciphers (e.g. Caesar's cipher, Vigenere's cipher)
  • Modern Ciphers (e.g. RSA)
  • Hashing
  • Number Bases
  • Password Cracking

Web Exploitation

  • HTML, CSS, JS
  • SQL (e.g. SQL Injection)
  • Website Headers
  • HTTP Requests
  • Sanitization Payloads

Reverse Engineering

  • Python
  • Java
  • Debugging
  • C / C++
  • Binaries

Forensics

  • File Analysis
  • Log Analysis
  • Steganography
  • Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
  • Network Traffic Analysis
  • Disk Analysis

Binary Exploitation

  • Binary vulnerabilities (e.g. Buffer Overflow)

General Skills

  • Terminal skills
  • SSH

Miscellaneous

Challenges that do not end up in any of the previous categories go in here.

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