Spring 2025
Get Your Freq On: Radio Hack Session
Friday, June 6, 2025 at 4:30pm
Y2E2 362
Shells, Satellites, & Security - A Discussion with Red Team Ambassador Kaitlyn Handelman
Friday, May 23, 2025 at 4:30pm
Spilker 232
Speaker: Kaitlyn Handelman
Monitoring and Constraining the Bananas VS Code SSH Age
Friday, May 16, 2025 at 4:30pm
Y2E2 362
Join us for a deep dive with Aditya Saligrama, Senior Software Engineer at Formal and former President of Stanford Applied Cyber, on how to reverse-engineer and constrain the powerful agent behind VS Code’s Remote SSH — and what it means for system security.
Speaker: Aditya Saligrama
Aditya Saligrama is the former President of Applied Cyber and a recent graduate from the Boston area where he studied Computer Science on the systems track with interests in web, mobile, and cloud security, distributed systems, and open source software. He currently works as Senior Software Engineer at Formal.
He has competed on the CCDC team as Linux & Cloud lead, helping bring home a National Championship in 2023, and led web penetration testing on the CPTC team, helping the team place 2nd globally in 2024. Aditya also taught CS 40 Cloud Infrastructure and Scalable Application Deployment and was a Course Assistant for CS 155 Computer and Network Security.
Public-Private Sector Partnership in Cybersecurity: A Discussion with Alum Jim Richberg
Friday, May 9, 2025 at 4:30pm
Spilker 232
Applied Cyber welcomes Jim Richberg, a Stanford alum and current Head of Cyber Policy & Global Field CISO at Fortinet, as he draws on his extensive experience to discuss the importance of public-private partnerships in cybersecurity.
Speaker: Jim Richberg
Intro to Capture the Flag (CTF) Workshop
Friday, May 2, 2025 at 4:30pm
Y2E2 362
Join us for a hands-on Intro to Capture the Flag (CTF) workshop with real beginner-friendly challenges. Free boba included!
Speaker: Ethan Ho
Intro to Web Hacking (Admit Weekend Special)
Friday, April 25, 2025 at 4:30pm
Spilker 232
Join us for an Admit Weekend special with a hands-on intro to web hacking using a fun, vulnerable cat website!
Speaker: Joey Holtzman
Darth Paper Strikes Back
Friday, April 18, 2025 at 4:30pm
Y2E2 362
Applied Cyber welcomes special guest Nicholas Cronan for a beginner friendly workshop where you will attack a target host with custom web applications and a multitude of vulnerabilities.
Speaker: Nicholas Cronan
Breaking In: A Candid Talk on Physical Security
Friday, April 11, 2025 at 4:30pm
Y2E2 362
Come join Applied Cyber this Friday to learn about physical security with Stanford alum Cooper de Nicola!
Speaker: Cooper de Nicola
Client-Side Desync: The Next Frontier in HTTP Request Smuggling Attacks, Powered by your Browser
Friday, April 4, 2025 at 4:30pm
Y2E2 362
Join us for the first meeting of Spring quarter, where we will dive into the world of HTTP request smuggling attacks!
Speaker: Ashley Dai