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Hacking Competitions

Venice 2024. Used on Running post.

2025

TBD January 2025: CPTC – International Finals Volunteer
  • Was the confidential team organizer for team presentations
2023 trip to Flordia with Moore family

2023-24

22 August MetaCTF (Flash)
  • TBD
17-19 August 2024: idekCTF
  • Competed with Brad, Dom, and Robbie – Team Intelligen’t.
  • Eddie might have had challenges in here. Update: He clarified he did not. Next time!
  • We did terrible, but was fun.
  • Jake from DEF CON competed too, but on a different team.
4-6 March 2024: Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) – International Finals Volunteer
13-15 January 2023: CPTC – International Finals Volunteer

2022

4-6 March: RITSEC – Information Security Talent Search (ISTS)
18-20 February: WiCyS@RIT – Capture The Flag (CTF)
  • Challenge author of three easy python challenges
7-9 January: CPTC – International Finals Volunteer

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2021

15 November: Automattic (Developer of WordPress iOS app) – $100 Bug Bounty
16 October: University of Buffalo – Lockdown
  • Team: Lukas Harris, Michael Moore, Aaron Schwager, Jenna Weinman, Katherine Nayan, Domenic, and Olivia Gallucci
  • I focused on a Linux client and a Linux server.
1 May: University of Buffalo – Lockdown
  • Team: Intelligen’t – Bradley Harker, Michael Moore, Domenic, and Olivia Gallucci
  • Rank: 7th
9-11 April: RITSEC – CTF
  • Team: Intelligen’t – Bradley Harker, Lukas Harris, Michael Moore, Domenic, and Olivia Gallucci
  • Rank: 11th out of approximately 2000 teams.
    • Prizes: each team member received a raspberry pi.
20 February: Trace Labs – Global OSINT Search Party CTF
7-10 January: Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) – International Finals Volunteer
  • 8 hours volunteering as a room monitor
  • Rankings:
    • 1st Rochester Institute of Technology
    • 2nd Stanford University
    • 3rd (tie) California State Polytechnic University and Pomona.

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2020

31 October: RITSEC – Incident Response Security Competition (IRSEC)
  • Team: Intelligen’t – Bradly Harker, Lukas Harris, Michael Moore, Domenic, and Olivia Gallucci
  • 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.
1-30 October: Carnegie Mellon University – PicoCTF
  • Team: Intelligen’t – Bradley Harker, Lukas Harris, Michael Moore, Domenic, and Olivia Gallucci
  • Summary: I worked on web exploits
17 October: University of Buffalo – Lockdown
  • Team: Michael Moore, Elijah, Loudon, Luke, and Olivia Gallucci
  • Rank: 11th
1-4 October: Ivy League – IvyHacks Hackathon
  • Team: Domenic, Will, and Olivia Gallucci
  • Summary
    • Your Project After the Hackathon: How to Pitch to Investors and VCs by Jenny Wang
29 August: Major League Hacking – Suns Out Hacks Out Hackathon
  • 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

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Olivia is senior security engineer, certified personal trainer, and freedom software advocate. She writes about offensive security, open source software, and professional development.

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