Mason Competitive Cyber

This Friday will be our final meeting of the semester, and in true MasonCC tradition, we're keeping it light and fun! We’ll be ordering pizza🍕 and doing something chill and enjoyable to close out the semester together. We’d love to see you there!

Join us Friday for Automated Program Analysis & Vulnerability Discovery w/ guest speaker Aaron (@pwnpope)! Topics: 💥 Rev engineering techniques 🧪 Taint Analysis & backend Taint Engine developed by Aaron 🧠 Auto-discovery of vulns 🛠️ Binja API for vuln hunting See you there!

Join us this Friday, April 18th from 6:00-7:00pm in Art and Design Room 2003. This weeks talk will be on secure Linux configuration and the sudoers file! The sudoers file is an extremely important part of access control, learn how to keep yours safe! Hope to see you there!

Join us this Friday, April 11th at 6:00PM in Art & Design 2003 for a CTF competition and workshop hosted by GMU's WiCyS Student Chapter! Topics: - Introduction to WiCyS - CTF Challenge strategies - Live walkthroughs - PIZZA! We hope to see you there this week!

Join us this Friday, April 4th from 6:00-7:00pm in Art and Design Room 2003 for our weekly talk. Come learn about Apple's Find My Network! Learn about: - About the Network - DIY AirTag - Vulnerabilities in Find My - Live Demo We hope to see you there!

faultpoint.com/post/2025-03-2… A subteam from Mason Competitive Cyber went full embedded archaeologist mode in prep for @DistrictCon 's Junkyard event, dumpster diving into the Netgear WNR854T and discovering eight new CVEs (yes, 8). All responsibly disclosed with a >90 day notice 📬

Join us this Friday, March 28th from 6:00-7:00pm in Art and Design Room 2003 to learn about Android Emulation & Tools for Mobile Device Malware Analysis! We will be covering: - Best Emulators - Common threats - Tools - Live demo on rooting/IOC on a Pixel We hope to see you there!

Join us this Friday, March 21st, from 6:00-7:00pm in Art and Design Room 2003 to participate in Google's Threat Intelligence CTF! This will be a unique opportunity to get hands-on experience with real world data and threat hunting! We hope to see you all there!

Join us this Friday, March 7th, from 6:00-7:00pm in Art and Design Room 2003 for our weekly talk. Join us this week to learn about Offensive Cyber Operations! We will be covering: - Recon - Initial Access and Obtaining a Foothold - Privilege Escalation We hope to see you there!

Join us this Friday, February 28th, from 6:00-7:00pm in Art and Design Room 2003 for our weekly talk. Join us this week to learn about CPU emulation, data analysis, binary exploitation and ROP. We hope to see you there!

Join us this Friday, February 14th, from 6:00-7:00pm in Art and Design Room 2003 for our weekly workshop. Guest speaker Kevin Thomas will be hosting a talk and workshop on hacking an Embedded ARM Internet Access Point. Join us to learn all the intricacies of ARM! See you there!

Join us this Friday, February 7th, from 6:00-7:00pm in Art and Design Room 2003 for our weekly talk. Industry professional Jeff Wildgen will be covering the role of Adversarial AI, which is the use of AI in cyber attack and defense roles. Hope to see you all there this Friday!

On Monday, January 27th, members of Mason Competitive Cyber were invited to attend the SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence summit in Old Town Alexandria. We learned about a very interesting and competitive field, and enjoyed the networking opportunities. Huge hanks to @SANSInstitute!

This Friday, January 31st, from 6:00-7:00pm in JC Room C we will be meeting with a DHS Special Agent for a talk on Memory Forensics! We will cover Windows internals, memory analysis techniques and advanced digital forensics. We hope to see you there!

This Friday, January 24th, from 6:00-7:00pm in JC Room C we will have our first in person meeting of the Spring 2025 semester! We will give an introduction about the club and go over important club information for the semester ahead. We hope to see you there!

This Friday, November 22nd, from 6:00pm-7:00pm in Horizon Hall Classroom 2008 we will have a talk on Reverse Engineering and Ghidra! This talk will be given by guest speaker Brandon Wong. We will cover the stack, calling conventions and a live demo of binary reversing in Ghidra.

This Friday, November 15th, from 6:00pm-7:00pm in Horizon Hall Classroom 2008 we will be having a talk on Intro to Windows Kernel Debugging! We'll be going over Windows internals, using windbg, debugging kernel drivers and environment setup. We hope to see you there this week!

This Friday, November 8th, from 6:00pm-7:00pm in Horizon Hall Classroom 2008 we will have our sponsor REDLattice giving a talk on Privilege Escalation on Modern Android Devices! We'll be talking about modern protections and how to get around them. We hope to see you there!

This Friday, November 1st, from 6:00pm-7:00pm in Horizon Hall Classroom 2008 we will have our sponsor CACI giving a talk on Reverse Engineering: How to hack your favorite video games! This will be a great talk to attend for beginners and experts alike. See you there!

This Friday, October 25th, from 6:00-7:00pm in Horizon Hall Classroom 2008 guest speaker Matthew Kukanich will be returning for another entry in his extremely popular series on car hacking! This will be an awesome talk to attend, we hope to see you there!