The first CyberPaws CTF challenge has been released! Please submit your flag to the "CyberPaws CTF Bot" on our Discord via DMs, using the `!submit` command! You have until our next meeting to submit. The flag will always be in the following format: Paws{ex4mpl3_fl4g}.

DM a board member for help if you get stuck.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1x0BswiJSxn93a-x3ciozSFK3vy-4iO8T?usp=sharing

I hope everyone had a great weekend! As a reminder, our weekly meetings continue tonight! 7:15PM to 8:15 PM in ILSB 116B. You can also join us virtually on Webex: https://umbc.webex.com/meet/CyberDawgs. 

Don’t forget that submissions for the weekly CyberPaws CTF challenge will close at the start of tonight's meeting. Remember to submit your flag! Also, if you would like a hint, you can DM a board member to receive one.

Finally, don’t hesitate to reach out to me on Discord (@truegritter) if you have any questions. And as always, Don’t Do Crime.

William Brooks
CyberDawgs President

The first CyberPaws CTF challenge has been released! Please submit your flag to the "CyberPaws CTF Bot" on our Discord via DMs, using the `!submit` command! You have until our next meeting to submit. The flag will always be in the following format: Paws{ex4mpl3_fl4g}.

DM a board member for help if you get stuck.

Looking forward to seeing you there! 

The International Cyber Security Center of Excellence and Northeastern University invite students to participate in the 6th International Country-to-Country (C2C) Capture the Flag (CTF) competition, C2C-CTF. This exciting competition allows students to work together as international teams to solve interesting CTF challenges while learning new skills, socializing, and promoting international collaboration and friendship. 

C2C-CTF 2025 (https://www.c2c-ctf-2025.org/) is organized and hosted by Northeastern University and will take place in person on its campus in Boston, Massachusetts. The organizing committee invites students at all levels from universities in the UK, USA, Japan, Israel, EU, and Australia to apply to participate.

Students can register online and participate individually in an online qualifying event from February 7 to 9, 2025. Students who qualify for the final competition will be organized into teams of five members from different universities to encourage international academic collaboration. These teams will compete in person at the final event in Boston from July 7 to 9, 2025. 

The organizers will hold webinars as part of the competition and educational process, during which students will learn about and discuss cybersecurity issues. 

A goal is to create diverse teams for the competition by selecting competitors from a broad range of backgrounds, nationalities, languages, genders, experiences, and cybersecurity skills. We seek motivated and resourceful participants who enjoy a tough, intellectual challenge in a cooperative international context -- we are not merely looking for experts who have won other hacking competitions, although those students are also welcome and strongly encouraged to participate. 

Register by February 1, 2025

Qualifier event online: February 7-9, 2025 

Final CTF competition: July 6-10, 2025 

Send questions about C2C-CTF to c2cctf@northeastern.edu.

Reposted From: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/cybersecurity/posts/146399 

Hey CyberDawgs,

Thank you to all who attended the End-Of-Semester Celebration on Monday. It was great to see so many people together to celebrate with some food, music, drinks, and games. Below are some end-of-semester updates!

Along with the celebration, we also had a chance to officially swear in our new Vice President, Jaspreet Gill, after she was elected last week. Congratulations, and thank you to all who ran and participated in the election!

We also announced the winners of the CyberPaws CTF! Congratulations!

Additionally, we awarded graduation cords to graduating members of club leadership who have contributed many hours to support the CyberDawgs organization over their time at UMBC.

Izzy (Isaiah) Roland Ried

Sophie Hamer  

With the semester officially ending, we would like to hear from you all! What went well? What didn’t? We would appreciate any feedback you could give us to improve! When you can this week, please fill out the CyberDawgs “Course Eval”: https://forms.gle/uFmy84F2oAhFQHS69

As a reminder, HackTheBox has its University CTF starting tomorrow at 8 AM. Remember to sign up if you haven't already! Any student can participate. https://ctf.hackthebox.com/event/details/university-ctf-2024-binary-badlands-1822. I can create channels for the comp if people are interested.

Finally, best of luck with your finals! And as always, Don’t Do Crime!

William Brooks

The final update of the Fall 2024 semester for UMBC Mock Trial reflects that both "stacked" teams - UMBC A and UMBC B - were in action this past weekend, and they both had outstanding finishes to wrap up one of the most successful fall semesters in program history.

UMBC A traveled to Columbia University for the Columbia University Big Apple Invitational Tournament (CUBAIT), widely recognized as one of the nation's elite invitational tournaments. Despite being shorthanded due to a few competitors who were ill, UMBC A rose to the challenge and went undefeated at CUBAIT, earning second place and not losing a single ballot! UMBC A only missed out on first place by a strength of schedule tiebreak, and swept teams from Fordham University, the University of Wisconsin, American University, and the University of Maryland. President Fadil Adeite was named an Outstanding Attorney on both sides of the case - his third consecutive tournament earning double-sided awards - and Treasurer Nathan Yates was named an Outstanding Witness on both sides of the case as well. 

UMBC B was also on the road, as they traveled to Dickinson College for the Green Devil Napping Tie Scrimmage Tournament. While this scrimmage tournament did not have "places" because it was designed to give teams extra practice, UMBC B still had an outstanding weekend. They won three of their four trials, which would have easily meant placing at a normal tournament, and they also earned two individual awards! Team co-captain Gracin O'Connor was named an Outstanding Witness and Destiny Russell was named an Outstanding Attorney. 

This weekend finishes a remarkable fall campaign for UMBC Mock Trial, including seven team awards:

In addition to these team awards, UMBC competitors won fifteen individual awards over the fall semester, an average of over two per tournament. 

UMBC Mock Trial couldn't wrap up the fall semester without shouting out Head Coach Thomas Azari '22, who has continued to coach and lead our program despite being a first-year law student at Maryland Carey Law. His support, along with that of Chichi Ukeje '23, Natalie Murray '22, and Faculty Advisor Ben Garmoe '13, has helped students and student leaders grow and succeed during this remarkable run of success. 

UMBC Mock Trial now turns their focus to January invitationals and Regionals in February, where they begin their quest to return to the National Championship Tournament in April. UMBC Mock Trial has qualified for Nationals in six of the last eight seasons, and are confident that the spring will bring even more success. Thank you as always to all of you for your continued support!