Author: Zander Work

Oregon State University Security Club

Thank You

Being your club president for the last 3 years has been an incredible experience. Back in Fall 2017 when I first came to OSU, the club had maybe 20-30 members and wasn’t involved in CTF or CDC at all. Now, we’ve reached nearly 300 members, play CTF nearly every weekend, and have many 1st place…
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PRCCDC 2020 Results

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (PRCCDC) was unfortunately cancelled. However, PRCCDC, working in combination with NCCDC, allowed all of the Pacific Rim teams to compete in the National Wildcard Event, which was held online on April 11th, 2020. I am pleased to announce that OSUSEC placed…
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Officer Elections on 3/12

Next week, we will be having officer elections! This is a great way to get more involved with the club and help represent the College of Engineering.tl;dr Come vote on Thursday, 3/12 at 7pm in KEC 1003. We will have pizza. I have been the president of the OSU Security Club for nearly 3 years…
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Welcome to DamCTF

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Meeting Notes 10/3

Thanks for the great turnout again tonight! We went over some tools you can use for the NSA Codebreaker challenge. Here is a link to the slides (requires ONID sign-in): Google Slides Next week’s CTF meeting is slightly changed, it will be at 7pm in KEC 1003 on Tuesday, 10/8.

Meeting Notes 9/26

Thanks everyone for coming out to our first meeting! We had over 50 people in attendance, and introduced the OSU Security Club, what we do, what we stand for, our plans for the year, and worked on a couple introductory CTF challenges. Here is a link to the slides (requires ONID login): Google Slides Next…
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NSA Visit

Yesterday the National Security Agency came to meet with some members of the university and give a talk to the OSU Security Club. The visit was a great success and we had over 100 people in attendance for the talk. The talk was focused around the NSA Codebreaker Challenge, which just started last weekend (Oregon…
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Meeting Notes 5/9

Today we hosted Ryan Gurr and Alex Ryan from Fidelis Cybersecurity, who talked about their experiences and background in information security, and showed a cool demo of Fidelis’s platform. If you have any questions for Ryan or Alex, please contact them, they said they’d love to answer any questions you may have, related to Fidelis…
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2019-2020 Officers

Here are the new officers for the 2019-2020 school year: President: Zander Work Vice President: Hadi Rahal-Arabi Treasurer: David Park Multimedia Coordinator: Adam Stewart Lab Manager: Ryan Kennedy Recruitment/Public Relations: Alex Rash Thanks to everyone who participated!

Meeting Notes 4/18

Tonight I gave a tutorial on IDA Pro basics, and how to get started with this awesome tool. I also released some new binaries on the CTF site for you to practice IDA. Remember, as a OSU Security Club member you have access to our lab systems, which has the full version of IDA Pro…
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