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DOE Cyberforce Competition 2021

OSUSEC placed 1st regionally and 7th overall in the Department of Energy Cyber Defense Competition

Meeting Notes 10/27

Thank you to everyone who attended! This meeting covered an introduction to NSA Codebreaker Challenge, including some common tools and strategies used to solve challenges 0-6. Here are the slides (requires ONID login): Google Slides for 10/27/2021 The next couple meetings will be as follows: CTF League on Friday 10/29/2021 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm in…
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Meeting Notes 10/6

Thank you to all the members that attended this meeting! We covered lockpicking basics, legality and ethics, before Ryan presented a live demonstration of picking a lock. Then, each table had a selection of locks of increasing difficulty and tools to try to pick them with. Here are the slides (requires ONID login): Google Slides…
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Meeting Notes 10/1

Thank you to everyone for coming to our first meeting this year! We had well over our expected 70 people in attendance. We introduced OSUSEC, what we do, how our Discord server works, as well as some ethics. We introduced members to Capture The Flag, and we delved into the first CTF League challenge of…
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2021-2022 OSUSEC Officers Decided

Summary of the 2021-2022 election results for OSUSEC officers.

Crowdstrike Adversary Quest – Much Sad

Solving the introductory challenge Much Sad from the Catapult Spider section of the Crowdstrike Adversary Challenge.

0x41414141 CTF – 0x414141

Solving the challenge 0x414141 from 0x41414141 CTF 2020.

BSidesPDX – Down the Rabbit Hole

Solving the third Over The Air challenge from BSidesPDX 2020, named “Down The Rabbit Hole”

BSidesPDX – Xclusive Numborz

Solving the second OTA challenge, “Xclusive Numborz” from BSidesPDX CTF 2020.

BSidesPDX – Please Stand By

Solving the first OTA challenge from BSidesPDX CTF 2020, named “Please Stand By”