We’ve talked about Scratch before as an excellent application for kids to start learning to programming in. From any computer kids can login to the Scratch site and create their own games and other applications by setting parameters in “function…
Looking for another summer camp to send your kids to? Look no further than the NSA-sponsored GenCyber program. As detailed in the New York Times article below, the camps are geared toward kids in grades K – 12 and is…
Getting caught up on some presentations I’ve done the past few months… Here is an updated deck on Project KidHack from BSidesOrlando in April. Thanks to the BSidesOrlando crew for having me! Project KidHack – Teaching the Next Next Generation…
A few weeks ago I had the honor of presenting my Project KidHack talk at the BSidesCharm. The goal of the presentation was to discuss all the fun games we can use to introduce our kids to information security. Here…
A few years ago I played Hackers & Agents for the first time with Wik’s kids at one of the ShmooCon Epilogue events. As part of my Project KidHack research I finally got around to ordering it a few weeks…
In my continuing research associated with my KidHack Project, I came across this relatively new conference called Hak4Kidz. Their next event is going to be held in Chicago on June 27th at the TechNexus Venture Collaborative. And the CFP is…
Unfortunately this is not a post on how to secure a Minecraft server but rather a quick reference to a great video on how kids can learn information security through playing Minecraft. Youngster Riese Goerlich gave this awesome presentation at…
Last weekend I had the honor of presenting my Project KidHack talk at the BSidesTampa with @pupstrr. The goal of the presentation was to discuss all the fun games we can use to introduce our kids to information security. Here…
I’ve written a series of posts regarding old school computer games … be they card or board games. These included Control-Alt-Hack, d0x3d!, and Hacker. The good thing about all these games are that they teach some basic computer security concepts…
In my continuing KidHack project, where I’m trying to pull together as many resources as possible for teaching kids more about security, I came across this new podcast by Rob “mubix” Fuller and two of his kids, DanTM and SlushyCat. Following…