Hacking Competitions, Presentations, and Bounties

• More information will be uploaded at a later date

• Fifteen hours volunteering as a room monitor and right-hand advisor

• More information will be uploaded at a later date

• View on Hackerone

• Fifteen minute presentation with three activities involving grep, awk, and find

• Team: Lukas Harris, Michael Moore, Aaron Schwager, Jenna Weinman, Katherine Nayan, and Domenic
• I focused on a Linux client and a Linux server.

• View a very similar presentation here.

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• RITSEC talk
• Watch the recording here.

• My research, Effectiveness of Threat Mitigation in Layers of the Open Systems Interconnection Model, will be a Fire Talk at the WiCyS international conference in Denver, Colorado.
• I won a full conference scholarship to present my research.
• Watch the YouTube video here.

• Watch the YouTube video here.

• I was a student panelist on New York City’s GenCyber Student and Professional Panel

• Presented with the RITSEC President and Head of Research
• Hour long meeting discussing club activities, student life, and Q&A
• Around fifteen attendees

• Presented with the RITSEC President and Head of Research
• Covered a ten minute segment on RITSEC
• Around thirty attendees

• Title: Effectiveness of Threat Mitigation in Layers of the Open Systems Interconnection Model
• I presented my research to around thirty students.
• My research will be a Fire Talks at the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) International Conference in Denver, Colorado. I won a full conference scholarship to present my research.
• The full presentation is not available, but a modified presentation will be available in late September.
• You can view the project outline here.
• Watch a very similar presentation here.

• Team name: Intelligen’t
• Team members: Bradley Harker, Michael Moore, and Domenic
• Rank: 7th

• Title: Summaries and Annotated Bibliographies of Successful Free & Open Source Projects
• I presented my research to seventeen faculty members.
• I was able to onboard two faculty contributors after my presentation.
• After this presentation, I was paid by Open@RIT to continue this project.
• All of the work I analyzed is located inside this Zotero collection.
• You can view the project outline here.

• Team name: Intelligen’t
• Team members: Bradley Harker, Lukas Harris, Michael Moore, and Domenic
• Rank: 11th out of approximately 2000 teams.
  • Prizes: each team member received a raspberry pi.

• I was one of two freshman student panelists at RIT’s open house for prospective Computing Security students.
• Topics I covered included student life, academics, RITSEC, RIT’s WiCyS Chapter, RIT’s Free and Open Source Software program, and sailing.

• I was one of two freshman student panelists at RIT’s open house for prospective Computing Security students.
• Topic I covered included student life, academics, RITSEC, RIT’s WiCyS Chapter, RIT’s Free and Open Source Software program, and sailing.

• Covers what the WiCyS career fair is, how it works, and why freshman and sophomores should attend the fair.
• The original presentation was not recorded. I will be giving a similar presentation next year for RITSEC, and that presentation will be recorded. I will provide a link once the RITSEC presentation is uploaded.

• Team name: Intelligen’t
• Team members: Bradley Harker and Lukas Harris
• Ranking: 77th out of 208 teams.

• YouTube video can be found here.
• Co-presenting with Bradley Harker, Lukas Harris, and Michael Moore
• Covers the Rubber Ducky Mentorship Group’s research projects
• Lukas Harris wrote a blog post about his research: Blocking USB Rubber Ducky Attacks: and other badusb mitigation with udev rules and Group Policy

• Finished article:
  • What do you think?: An interview with two up and coming cybersecurity students
• Met David Hunt, the CTO of The Prelude Institute

• 8 hours volunteering as a room monitor
• Rankings:
  • 1st Rochester Institute of Technology
  • 2nd Stanford University
  • 3rd (tie) California State Polytechnic University and Pomona.

• Team name: Intelligen’t
• Team members: Bradly Harker, Lukas Harris, Michael Moore and Domenic
• Rank: Placed 4th out of 14 teams
• Description: IRSEC is RITSEC‘s beginner-friendly Red/Blue competition. IRSeC is typically hosted in the early fall at RIT. With IRSeC, RITSEC aims to provide RIT students with some initial defensive and incident response experience. IRSeC also features an entirely student-run Red Team comprised of RITSEC members.

• Team name: Intelligen’t
• Team members: Bradley Harker, Lukas Harris, Michael Moore and Domenic
• Summary: I worked on web exploits

• Team: Michael Moore, Elijah, Loudon and Luke
• Rank: 11th

• Team: Domenic and Will
• Summary
  • Debugging Leadership by Vaneezeh Siddiqui
  • Diversity & Non-Traditional Pathways in Tech by Samantha Wiener, Naba Rizvi, Grace Ling, Erica Baity and Catalina Sanchez-Maes
  • Your Project After the Hackathon: How to Pitch to Investors and VCs by Jenny Wang

• YouTube video can be found here.
• Co-presenting with Shannon McHale
• Covers stages of the attack life cycle

• Team: Domenic, Rigved, and Palash.
• Special Note: This was my first hackathon!
• Special Note: Domenic and I won the U.S. Air Force Cyber Challenge Raffle.
• Summary:
  • Project Title: “Dining Assist”
  • Purpose: Locate the user to the least crowded dining facility
  • Basic program that records where users are located
  • Uses Radar UI to display where users are located