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The student-run cybersecurity organization at UC Santa Cruz.
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Meeting Times and Locations

See upcoming events and meetings on our events page. We host a variety of different events, including workshops, casual hack and chill sessions, and CTF working sessions. Wanna learn more about what we do? Check out our FAQs page.


Recent Posts

Introduction to Hacking Competitions (CMPM17-01)

Our introduction to CTF competitions course (season 3) is returning once again for Spring Quarter 2025! (tentative schedule TuTh 5:20-6:55pm w/ section F 1:20-2:25pm in BE-97) TL:DR - Learn how to hack and compete in cybersecurity competitions, all while earning course credits This course is...

Certification Program Pilot

We’re excited to announce an incredible opportunity for select Slug Security members who want to learn foundational cyber skills, test their knowledge, and boost their resumes by earning an industry certification. We’re offering a limited number of INE’s eJPT certifications, fully funded by Slug...

Taking Down Big Laundry

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...
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Recent Writeups

CSE-132 Pwn HW Walkthrough

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...

CSE-132 Rev HW Walkthrough

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...

Test Writeup

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