ISSS Technical Talks

The slidesets from all of our past technical talks.

2020-2021

Beginner Series

• What is a CTF? - Alex Bellon
• Linux for CTFs - Nathan Huckleberry
• Cryptography 1 - Pooja Chivukula
• Forensics - Alex Bellon
• Networking 1 - Matthew Pabst
• Web 1 - Garrett Gu
• Intro to Assembly - Nathan Huckleberry
• Cryptography 2 - Soham Roy
• Binary Exploitation - Nathan Huckleberry

Binary Exploitation

• Intro to Binary Exploitation - Nathan Huckleberry
• Intermediate Binary Exploitation - Nathan Huckleberry
• Blind Return-Oriented Programming - Nathan Huckleberry
• Linux Kernel Pwning - Joshua Wong
• Intro to Heap Exploitation - Nathan Huckleberry

Cryptography

• Blockchain - Soham Roy

Forensics

• Data Recovery - Aya "the Awesome" Abdelgawad

Hardware

• Hardware Hacking - Daniel Jahren

Miscellaneous

• How Not To Run a CTF Aaron Soto (Guest speaker)
• Pentesting - Alice Reuter
• Personal Security - Alex Bellon
• The Darknet - Joshua Wong
• Cybersecurity Policy - Abby Krishnan and Ritvik Annam from Texas Civic Tech Project (Guest Speakers)

Networking

• HTTPS Side Channels - Matthew Pabst
• TLS - Soham Roy
• WiFi - Soham Roy
• Enumerate like a legend w/ Nmap - Aly A

Reverse Engineering

• How To Use angr - Nathan Huckleberry
• Angr (2022) - Tristan Wisepape (author) and Daniel Parks (speaker)

Web

• JavaScript Engine Exploits - Matthew Pabst
• HTTP Request Smuggling - Jonathan Fisher from Praetorian (Guest speaker)
• Smashing the Web for Fun and Profit: Intro to Web Testing - Aly

2019-2020

Binary Exploitation

• Architecture and Binary Exploitation - Nathan Huckleberry
• Blind Return Oriented Programming - Nathan Huckleberry
• Heap Exploitation - Joshua Wong
• Ret2Libc and String Format exploits - Nathan Huckleberry

Cryptography

• Introduction to Cryptography - Daniel Mancia
• Symmetric Key Cryptography - Daniel Mancia

Miscellaneous

• The Darknet - Joshua Wong
• Using Static Analysis for Security - Aaron Hurst, Synopsys [sponsor talk]

Networking

• Networking - Mason Davis