Category: Meeting Notes

Oregon State University Security Club

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 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 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.

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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