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Olivia A. Gallucci

Offensive Security, Open Source, and Glitter

Hacking Competitions

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: Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (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.
2 October: RITSEC – Incident Response Security Competition (IRSeC)
  • Physical Operations (PhysOps) Logistics Coordinator
  • 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 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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Portrait of Olivia Gallucci in garden, used in LNP article.

Written by Olivia Gallucci

Olivia is an honors student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She writes about security, open source software, and professional development.