The New York Times Watched Us Run Cyber Ops for Two Days (opens in new tab)

This year at NCCDC was strange in a way I do not think I fully appreciated until afterward\. For two days, while we were running offensive operations against some of the best collegiate defenders in the country, the New York Times was sitting in the room with us\. Watching\. Asking questions\. Trying to understand why half a dozen people would voluntarily spend months building custom malware, agent frameworks, and infrastructure just to stress test students in a national competition\. You see...