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Technical writeups, club updates, and thoughts from our members
2025 (2)
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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)...
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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...
2024 (4)
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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...
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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...
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Test Writeup
This is a test post.
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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...
2022 (2)
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UCSC Wins 3rd Place in Codebreaker 2022
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...
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UCSC Places 9th at CyberForce 2022
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...
2021 (2)
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UCSC Takes 9th Place in Codebreaker 2021
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...
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UCSC Wins 2nd at CyberForce 2021
We are pleased to share that UC Santa Cruz placed second in the Department of Energy's CyberForce 2021 competition. This was our first time participating in the event, and our...