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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 comp...

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 forwa...

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”...

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 cybers...

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 team performed exceptionally well to secure a top position among 120 teams from 105 universities across 33 states.