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Meeting Notes 9/28

[ Image: Cameron McCawley debriefing the club on activities for this year. ] Howdy hackers! Thanks to everyone who showed up to the first meeting and we hope it was fun and informative!! Tonight we helped break in the new year for the club, and many people walked away from the meeting with new OSUSEC…
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2022-2023 OSUSEC Officers Decided

The votes are in! After an entertaining election with some contested positions and contestants running from the floor, the officers for the next academic year, 2022-2023. President: Cameron McCawleyVice President: Casey ColleyTreasurer: Mike CarrisLab Manager: Lucas BallCTF League Coordinator: Allen BenjaminRecruitment Officer: Brandon Ellis (Interim)Community Manager: Gabriel Kulp Thanks to everyone who participated!

Meeting Notes 3/2

Thank you to everyone who attended tonight’s meeting! We talked about what Wargames are, what their value is, and what some good starter wargames are to play. The slides for the meeting are available here (ONID Login Required): 3/2/2022 Slides Later this week, we have this event coming up: CTF League: This Friday, 6:00pm –…
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Meeting Notes 2/23

Thank you to everyone who attended tonight’s meeting! We introduced several different CTF categories and what challenges usually look like within those categories. Then, we went over some of the challenges on the CTF Practice Range at https://ctf.osusec.org. The slides for the meeting are available here (ONID Login Required): 2/23/2022 Slides Later this week, we…
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Meeting Notes 2/9

Thank you to everyone who attended tonight’s meeting! We chatted some more about reverse engineering, discussing the stack layout, function preambles and local variables on the stack. We introduced the rev02 challenge on the CTF Practice Range at https://ctf.osusec.org. The slides for the meeting are available here (ONID Login Required): 2/9/2022 Slides We have an…
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Meeting Notes 2/2

Thank you to everyone who attended tonight’s meeting! We chatted about reverse engineering and binary exploitation (pwn) tools and how to use them, and I demonstrated how to solve the rev01 challenge on the CTF Practice Range at https://ctf.osusec.org. The slides for the meeting are available here (ONID Login Required): 2/2/2022 Slides There are some…
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Meeting Notes 1/26

Thank you to everyone who attended! This meeting covered an introduction to reverse engineering on x86 64-bit. We covered some key differences between x86 and x86-64, then we examined how typical control flows are compiled to assembly based on the C source code. Here are the slides (requires ONID login): Google Slides for 1/26/2021 The binary…
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Meeting Notes 1/19

Thank you to everyone who attended! This meeting covered a presentation called “CS271 for Pwning”, an introduction to assembly and shellcoding with a focus on the useful aspects to pwning / binary exploitation. Here are the slides (requires ONID login): Google Slides for 1/19/2021 The next meeting this week is for CTF League on Friday 1/21/2021 @…
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Meeting Notes 1/12

Thank you to everyone who attended! This meeting covered the solutions to all NSA Codebreaker 2021 Tasks. I hope everyone enjoyed, questions can always be tossed into the #nsacc-21 channel. Here are the slides (requires ONID login): Google Slides for 1/12/2021 The next meeting this week is for CTF League on Friday 1/14/2021 @ 6:00pm –…
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NSA Codebreaker Challenge 2021

OSUSEC placed 3rd nationally with a score of 133,337 points at NSA Codebreaker Challenge 2021