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Student with over 600 spare hours is looking for cyber security project ideas

Hello everyone! I am a student who is finishing a Masters degree in Cyber security and Digital Forensics, and to complete my course I have to develop and submit a project by the end of the second semester. Originally, I was planning to develop an automated platform for internal penetration testing that runs on Raspberry Pi, but unfortunately for me, ScoutBot was released (http://lansec.net/project/scoutbot/) which means that my project idea is not unique anymore. Because of that, I am looking for another project idea and hopefully - you can help me.

What can I offer you? Over 600 hours of work dedicated to the project by a student who is hardworking and eager to learn new things. Although I am not a Programming Guru, I have some skills in C#, Java and Python.

What am I looking for? A project idea that is related to Cyber security (and it would be perfect if it is directly related to Penetration Testing since that is the career I pursue). I am still interested in using Raspberry Pi, so maybe someone can suggest me something related to it?

I will also be grateful for links to places where I could look for projects.

Thanks.

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Re:Student with over 600 spare hours is looking for cyber se... by alain94040 on Friday October 03, 2014 @02:35PM (#8406890)
Did you go through the Matasano crypto challenges (http://cryptopals.com)? I'm sure they could inspire you.
Re:Student with over 600 spare hours is looking for cyber se... by atmosx on Friday October 03, 2014 @03:17PM (#8407122)
I'd like to have a lightweight firewall monitoring tool for the RPi with graphs and pies who will give straight/easy to read informations.

There are tons of old programs based on PHP and Cacti, etc. Most of them are not easy to read, let alone to configure. Most of them look like relics more than anything these days.

Re:Student with over 600 spare hours is looking for cyber se... by ko-da-za on Sunday October 05, 2014 @10:25AM (#8412324)
Why not help with ScoutBot? I didn't mean to take away your enthusiasm :). Between ScoutBot and ReconBot, there's plenty of coding to do! Send me an email, I could definitely use help! [email protected]
Re:Student with over 600 spare hours is looking for cyber se... by shawnreilly on Monday October 06, 2014 @01:16PM (#8416998)
If you are still looking for project ideas, feel free to contact me (info in my profile). I'm working on some cool stuff. Good luck and have fun!
Re:Student with over 600 spare hours is looking for cyber se... by thegrif on Sunday October 05, 2014 @05:54PM (#8413580)
Believe it or not something relevant just popped up - I'd like to connect you if you're interested. I'm at "tom" at [my hn nick] dot net.
Re:Student with over 600 spare hours is looking for cyber se... by sarciszewski on Friday October 03, 2014 @10:30AM (#8405671)
Well, I mentioned one the other day in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8401867 ;)
Re:Student with over 600 spare hours is looking for cyber se... by thegrif on Sunday October 05, 2014 @04:31AM (#8411773)
I think I may be able to connect you with some worthwhile opportunities. Information is in my profile - please feel free to contact me :-)