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Everything we've published. Club news, CTF writeups, technical deep-dives, opportunity announcements.
2025
- Feb 28, 2025 Introduction to Hacking Competitions (CMPM17-01) career success
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)...
- Feb 1, 2025 Certification Program Pilot career success
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
- Dec 10, 2024 CSE-132 Pwn HW Walkthrough writeup binary exploitation rop
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...
- Dec 10, 2024 CSE-132 Rev HW Walkthrough writeup reverse engineering golang
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...
- Jun 5, 2024 Test Writeup writeup general
This is a test post.
- May 20, 2024 Taking Down Big Laundry security research
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
- Nov 7, 2022 UCSC Wins 3rd Place in Codebreaker 2022 competitions
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...
- Nov 7, 2022 UCSC Places 9th at CyberForce 2022 competitions
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
- Dec 9, 2021 UCSC Takes 9th Place in Codebreaker 2021 competitions
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...
- Nov 7, 2021 UCSC Wins 2nd at CyberForce 2021 competitions
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...