Hack The World

This is a more technical continuation of the article we had with TechCrunch on the machines we found security flaws in. Not every day do you pwn the largest commercial network of laundry appliances in the United States! This article is purely educational and to inspire any future security...

In our first year of participation, Slug Security has secured 2nd place in MITRE's 2023 Embedded Capture the Flag competition! Our team, representing the University of California, Santa Cruz, consisting of 10 students, was advised by Alvaro A. Cardenas. With what we learned from this year, we...

Following the academic tradition of participating in the National Security Agency's Codebreaker Challenge, Slug Security is proud to announce that we have won 3rd place in the 2022 Codebreaker Challenge. This is the third year in a row that UC Santa Cruz has placed in the top 10. We are very...

Challenge author walkthrough of the binary exploitation homework for UCSC's CSE-132 Fall 2024 class. Hopefully you had somewhat of a good time attempting these challenges, if you're curious about binary exploitation in general, I'd highly suggest trying some challenges on pwn.college. Simple...

Challenge author walkthrough of the reverse engineering homework for UCSC's CSE-132 Fall 2024 class. While there are multiple approaches to solving these challenges, including both dynamic and static analysis, our primary goal was to help you develop your static code analysis skills. These...

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