Fall 2022

Secure File Sharing

Friday, December 2, 2022 at 3:30pm
Y2E2 300

Cody Ho provides an overview of secure (and not so secure) file sharing since the dawn of the Internet, culminating with his recommends and predictions for the future.

Speaker: Cody Ho
Cody Ho is a Financial Officer for Applied Cyber and a junior studying Symbolic Systems and Computer Science. Cody’s academic pursuits focus on the intersection of machine learning and cybersecurity, with extensive experience that spans AI safety and ethics, low level systems and networking, HPC workloads, and reverse engineering malware. Cody is a member of Applied Cyber’s CCDC team focusing on Linux and Windows defense and automation.

Phishing 101 Workshop

Friday, November 4, 2022 at 3:30pm
Y2E2 300

Join Applied Cyber President Yasmine Mitchell for a workshop on phishing. Attendees will learn about the mechanics of real-world phishing campaigns, objectives of the attackers, phishing simulation/awareness training, and then create their own email gambit with the open-source Gophish framework.

Speaker: Yasmine Mitchell
Yasmine Mitchell is a senior at Stanford in the Computer Science computer and network security track with an interest in networking and misinformation studies. She is currently serves as the President of Applied Cyber and a captain of Stanford’s CPTC team.

Low Cost Drones & Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in Warfare

Friday, October 28, 2022 at 3:30pm
Y2E2 300

Low cost (sub $20K) drones are disrupting how modern warfare is conducted. At the same time, crowd sourced OSINT (open source intelligence) from real-time Internet feeds like Twitter and TikTok are dramatically shortening the loop for situational awareness on the battlefield. In this talk Alex Keller will provide a survey of these emerging trends with curated examples from social media.

CONTENT WARNING: This presentation will include screenshots and video of warfare that may be disturbing. While there will be no images of deceased or injured people, the subject matter is unavoidably grave.

Speaker: Alex Keller
Alex’s 25 year career in the higher education technology sector brought him to Stanford‘s School of Engineering in 2012 where he now serves as Sr. Systems Security Engineer with responsibilities for security, research technology consulting, and datacenter operations. Advisor to the Stanford Applied Cyber student group and team coach since inception in late 2015, Alex is tirelessly passionate about cybersecurity education and outreach. When not hacking in the public interest, Alex loves spending time with his wife and 8 year old daughter on the beautiful northern California coast.

How to Find & Exploit 0-day Vulnerabilities

Friday, October 21, 2022 at 3:30pm
Y2E2 300

Ex-IDF hacker Mav Levin explains how to find undiscovered security weaknesses and exploit privilege escalation paths.

Intro to Security Workshop

Friday, October 14, 2022 at 3:30pm
Y2E2 300

Join Stanford’s Applied Cybersecurity (AC) for our first workshop of the year this Friday, 10/14 from 3:30 – 4:30pm in Y2E2 300! Our seasoned members Aditya and Cooper will be walking us through some fundamentals of web security with a hands-on activity for us to try to hack a fake startup site.

Slides

Satellite Ground Stations & Space Hacking

Friday, September 30, 2022 at 4:00pm
Shriram 262

Kaitlyn Handelman is an accomplished National & Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) Red Teamer, currently working as a security engineer on the AWS Space team. When Kaitlyn isn’t collecting shells on your infrastructure – she’s probably up late at night using software defined radios to intercept satellite and spacecraft transmissions (https://twitter.com/KaitlynGuru). Kaitlyn will join us in person to talk about space hacking and take questions from the audience on how to get started in this field.