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 researchers who want to investigate everyday products they use.
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 are excited to continue our participation in the competition next year.
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 proud of our team's accomplishments, and we look forward to participating in the 2023 Codebreaker Challenge!
Slug Security is thrilled to share that UC Santa Cruz secured 9th place out of 170 teams in the 2022 CyberForce Competition. This marks the second consecutive year that UCSC has ranked in the top 10 in the Department of Energy's CyberForce Competition. We want to congratulate the 3 teams that represented us this year, "Slug Sec", "Bing Chilling", and "Cyber Slugs". All three teams were supervised by Professor Alvaro A. Cardenas and Sebastián Castro.
Continuing the tradition of participating in the National Security Agency's Codebreaker Challenge, UC Santa Cruz has placed 9th in the 2021 Codebreaker Challenge. This is the second year in a row that UCSC has placed in the top 10. Slug Security is proud of our team's accomplishments this year, especially of the new members who are new to cybersecurity.