Hacking Competitions and Presentations

September 8-9: Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Fire Talk Research Presentation 

• 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.

May 1: University of Buffalo Lockdown 

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

April 9-11: RITSEC Capture The Flag 

• 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.

March 16: Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Career Fair Presentation 

• 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.

February 20: Trace Labs Global OSINT Search Party CTF

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

January 29: RITSEC Hak5 Rubber Ducky Research Presentation 

• 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

January 7-10: 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.

October 31: Incident Response Security Competition (IRSEC)

• Team name: Intelligen’t
• Team members: Bradly Harker, Lukas Harris, Michael Moore and Domenic
• Rank: Placed 4th out of 14 teams

October 1-30: PicoCTF

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

October 17: University of Buffalo Lockdown 

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

October 1-4: IvyHacks

• 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

September 11: RITSEC Presentation on the attack life cycle 

• Co-presenting with Shannon McHale
• Covers stages of the attack life cycle

August 29: Suns Out Hacks Out 

• Team: Domenic, Rigved, Palash
• Special Note:
  • First hackathon!
  • 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