Our regular sessions are hosted in person (!) and streamed on Blackboard Collaborate, every Monday at 19:00 - 20:30 (ish). Members will be given access to our Blackboard Collaborate Organisation, from which they can view all sessions and recordings. If you've requested a guest session and want to attend online, we'll send you a direct link.
2021-22 Semester 2
09 May 2022 – Blue Teamers's viewpoint
Presented by John
Location: TBD, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: TBD
2nd part of a 2 session series on Red and Blue teaming. Watch a certified Blue teamer discover how the red teamer compromised the system, tools for logging and post-compromise response.
02 May 2022 – Red Teamers's viewpoint
Presented by Jack
Location: TBD, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: TBD
1st part of a 2 session series on Red and Blue teaming. Watch an OSCP certified penetration tester exploit an application, see how they discover vulnerabilities and compromise the target.
25 Apr 2022 – Tor, Cryptocurrencies, & AGM
Presented by Vlad & Nicki
Location: TBD, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Medium
We talk about anonymising technologies, and elect next year's committee
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04 Apr 2022 – HTB Session
Presented by TBD
Location: TBD, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: TBD
TBC - we may run a HTB session over Easter if people are interested
28 Mar 2022 – CTF Preparation Session
Presented by Mac and Seb
Location: Diamond Workroom 1, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Easy
We'll teach you everything you need to know about Capture the Flag competitions, ahead of our GroceryTF CTF challenge this weekend!
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21 Mar 2022 – Advanced Web Hacking
Presented by TBD
Location: TBD, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: TBD
We'll be learning about some more complex exploits, such as Server-Side Template Injection, Server-Side Request Forgery, Remote File Inclusion, and more to prepare you for the CTF!
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14 Mar 2022 – Cryptography
Presented by Rong
Location: Diamond Workroom 2, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: TBD
Learn the basic theory of cryptography and run some attacks against RSA, hashes, and more!
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07 Mar 2022 – WiFi Hacking
Presented by Vlad Cranga
Location: Diamond Workroom 2, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Medium
This session covers Wi-Fi security, various attacks and tools, and practising password cracking. New to the society? Come to your first session for free, just message a committee member!
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28 Feb 2022 – Mike Jones RFID
Presented by Mike Jones
Location: BlackBoard, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Easy
Mike Jones, a reformed ex-anonymous hacker, will be demonstrating how we can use RF (Radio Frequency) to exfiltrate data. The session will be on BlackBoard and will require a membership to join. New to the society? Come to your first session for free, just message a committee member!
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21 Feb 2022 – BadUSB
Presented by Nick
Location: Diamond Workroom 2, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Easy
Instantly exploit in-person targets using hot pluggable attacks with a BadUSB. We will be programming DigiSparks to emulate a keyboard in order to automate tasks and exploit targets!
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14 Feb 2022 – Active Directory
Presented by Mac
Location: Diamond Workroom 2, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Medium
A look at the most common corporate network infrastructure, and how to break it! This is an info-packed session, and you may find it easier to follow if you've looked at our Reconnaisance, Shells, OS Security and Privilege Escalation sessions - but you should be fine without!
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07 Feb 2022 – Recap and TryHackMe
Presented by Mac & Seb
Location: Online, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Easy
A quick recap of last semester and a fun TryHackMe Boot2Root
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2021-22 Semester 1
13 Dec 2021 – Holiday Hackers
Presented by Mac, Nick, Nicki, Vlad, Seb
Location: TBD, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Medium
TBD
06 Dec 2021 – Hack the Box
Presented by TBD
Location: TBD, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Medium
TBD
29 Nov 2021 – Privilege Escalation
Presented by Seb, Mac, Nicki, Nick
Location: TBD, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Medium
Come and learn Windows and Linux local enumeration and privilege escalation
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22 Nov 2021 – Shells
Presented by Mac & Nick
Location: Diamond Workroom 1, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Medium
Kali VM recommended, as well as TryHackMe account. Linux Command Line Fundamental Skills will be useful!
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15 Nov 2021 – Docker (CompSoc Collab)
Presented by Nick, Felix, and Mac
Location: Diamond Workroom 1, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Easy
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08 Nov 2021 – Reconnaissance
Presented by Seb & Vlad
Location: Arts Tower LT06, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Easy
TBD
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01 Nov 2021 – Social Engineering
Presented by Nicki
Location: TBD, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Easy
TBD
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25 Oct 2021 – Operating System Security
Presented by Mac and Nick
Location: Hick's Building LT05, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Medium
Exploring how we can harden Windows and Linux operating systems from attacks.
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18 Oct 2021 – Yorkshire & Humber Regional Organised Crime Unit talk
Presented by DS Spinks
Location: Hicks Building LT05, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Easy
DS Spinks will be giving you an insight into fighting Cyber Crime and will be talking about a year in industry placement opportunity.
11 Oct 2021 – Automation in Cyber Security
Presented by Mac and Seb
Location: Arts Tower workroom 3, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Easy
Automation in cyber security.
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04 Oct 2021 – Intro to Web Hacking
Presented by Nicki Ridsdale, Sebastian Southwell
Location: Arts Tower workroom 3, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Easy
Our first session on web hacking methodologies, tools, and simple attacks.
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30 Sep 2021 – Intro to Linux
Presented by Nick Ruffles, Vlad Cranga
Location: SU Gallery Room 3, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Easy
A GIAG session that aims to give a quick introduction to Linux the power that it holds.
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29 Sep 2021 – Give it a Go 2021 - Web Hacking
Presented by Nicki & Mac
Location: SU Gallery Room 3, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Easy
Our Web Hacking Give it a Go session, where we'll teach you some basic Web Application attacks and methodologies!
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20 Sep 2021 – Meet our Societies Talk (with DCS)
Presented by Nick Ruffles
Location: TBD, 7pm - 8:30pm
Difficulty: Easy
Our introduction to the society, including our goals for the year. Made for the Department of Computer Science intro week talks
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2020-21 Semester 2
17 May 2021 – 🏴 Raspberry Pi CTF 🏴
Presented by Mac Goodwin
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Hard
Our bakery-themed CTF, featuring challenges for players of all skill levels, and a chance to win a Raspberry Pi and a SESH hoodie!
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10 May 2021 – 📡 Wifi Sniffing 📡
Presented by Brooks Rady
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Medium
An exploration of the airwaves! Come along to learn some Wireshark snooping, MAC spoofing, and WiFi cracking.
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03 May 2021 – 9️0️ Binary Exploitation 9️0️
Presented by Jack Barradell
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Hard
A look into reverse engineering and modifying binaries.
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26 Apr 2021 – 👨💻 Mike Jones Anonymous talk 👨💻
Presented by Mike Jones
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Easy
Mike Jones, a reformed ex-member of the Anonymous hacking group talks about his experiences! You won't want to miss this talk
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19 Apr 2021 – 🗳️ AGM 🗳️
Presented by Nick, Chloe and Sohyun
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Easy
Vote for the next committee members!
22 Mar 2021 – 🎮 Game Breaking 🎮
Presented by Nick
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Hard
A quick dive into reverse engineering games and making them misbehave. You might want to brush up on your assembly for this one.
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15 Mar 2021 – 🗔 Web app hacking 🗔
Presented by Mac
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Medium
A deeper dive into some web hacking techniques covered in first semester, and some brand new ones - from SSTI to Deserialisation!
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08 Mar 2021 – 🏁 Making a CTF 🏁
Presented by Nicola
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Medium
A guide to creating and deploying a Capture the Flag challenge using AWS and Flask!
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01 Mar 2021 – 🚶 HTB Walkthrough 🚶
Presented by ???
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Medium
A walkthrough of the Academy machine on HTB.
22 Feb 2021 – 👩💻 Intro to Assembly 👩💻
Presented by Nick and Brooks
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Medium
An overview of assembly code & computer memory, and a couple of demos!
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15 Feb 2021 – 📧 Social Engineering 📧
Presented by Nicola
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Easy
Focussing mainly on phishing, this session will show you techniques used for launching an effective phishing campaign and then how to best prevent one.
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08 Feb 2021 – 🕵🏼 Online Anonymity 🕵🏼
Presented by Mac and Brooks
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Easy
A look at the technologies behind VPNs and Tor, their vulnerabilities, and how to setup your own.
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2020-21 Semester 1
14 Dec 2020 – 🎅 Holiday Hackery?! 🎅
Presented by ???
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Medium
Our final session of the semester! We'll tackle TryHackMe's advent of cyber challenges in a laid-back session, and there may even be some prizes up for grabs...
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07 Dec 2020 – 🔓 Hack The Box 🔓
Presented by Mac & Brooks
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Medium
Put your skills to the test! Drawing together everything you’ve learned from throughout the semester, join our committee in an applied hacking challenge from Hack The Box. Come ready to contribute ideas or even with your own machine to follow along!
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30 Nov 2020 – 🔎 Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) 🔎
Presented by Chloe & Sohyun
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Easy
Open Source Intelligence and social engineering are often one of the most important parts of cyber attacks and defense. Join us to learn about various tools and take part in a CTF.
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23 Nov 2020 – ␛ Privilege Escalation ␛
Presented by Sohyun
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Medium
What would happen if a user can access the administrator control? This week, we will look into what privilege escalation is, what is the purpose of this attack and what are the ways of doing it. We will also explore some demos about getting root access on Linux.
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16 Nov 2020 – 🧾 Enumeration 🧾
Presented by Mac & Nick
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Easy
Dive into the world of enumeration - from discovering devices and services on a network and scoping out a way in, to finding paths for lateral movement and escalation vectors, we'll show you some of the most crucial tools and techniques.
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09 Nov 2020 – 🐚 All the Shells! 🐚
Presented by Nick
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Easy
This week we will be looking into the different kinds of shells that are available on Linux, what they do, how they work and how we can use them to gain access to remote machines. We will also be looking into port forwarding and the capabilities of Metasploit!
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02 Nov 2020 – 🌐 Networking 🌐
Presented by Brooks
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Medium
Hacking as a discipline wouldn’t really exist if you had to cart a keyboard with you to every machine you wanted to break into – computer networks enable remote machines to communicate with each other and make things like the Internet possible. This session will explore both the theory behind these networks and some of the practical tools for exploring and understanding them.
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26 Oct 2020 – 🐍 Automation in Python 🐍
Presented by Mac
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Easy
This week we’ll be looking at automation, one of the most crucial tools for cybersecurity; whether it’s repeating menial tasks, or rebuilding a common tool to understand how it works. We will take you over some tools we have written, and show you how they can be used on things like Juice Shop!
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19 Oct 2020 – 👮 Guest Presentation - Yorkshire and Humber Regional Organised Crime Unit 👮
Presented by Guest Speaker Chris
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Easy
Chris will be in this week to talk us through some of the career opportunities available with the police! Make sure to come along to this one to hear about an exciting area of work and make some new links with industry professionals! You can sign up with this link if you are not already a member. If you are a member, you should be able to see the room in Blackboard Collaborate.
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12 Oct 2020 – 🧃 Juice Shop II 🧃
Presented by Nick
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Easy
OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Juice Shop is an intentionally vulnerable web application that shows off multiple common and advanced exploits that can appear in web applications. Learn how the vulnerabilities exist and how to exploit them yourself. This will be a more advanced follow up from the GIAG session.
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05 Oct 2020 – 💻 Introduction to Linux 💻
Presented by Chloe & Brooks
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Easy
Learn how to use the Linux terminal, a vital tool of developers and cybersecurity professionals alike. Control local and remote machines by mastering the fundamental commands and test your newfound skills by breaking into the Bandit machines hosted by OverTheWire.
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28 Sep 2020 – 🧃 Juice Shop I (Give it a Go) 🧃
Presented by Nick & Mac
Location: BlackBoard, 6pm - 8pm
Difficulty: Easy
OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Juice Shop is an intentionally vulnerable web application that shows off multiple common and advanced exploits that can appear in web applications. Learn how the vulnerabilities exist and how to exploit them yourself. More details here
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2019-20
04 Nov 2019 – Linux part 2
Presented by John Richardson
Location: Diamond LT9,
Difficulty: Easy
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15 Oct 2019 – Linux part 1
Presented by John Richardson
Location: Diamond LT9,
Difficulty: Easy
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06 Oct 2019 – Private Investigations: Memory Forensics
Presented by John Richardson
Location: Diamond LT9,
Difficulty: Hard
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2018-19
18 Mar 2019 – Net Forensics
Presented by John Richardson
Location: Diamond LT9,
Difficulty: Medium
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04 Mar 2019 – Hack Back Revision
Presented by Jack Barradell
Location: Diamond LT9,
Difficulty: Medium
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24 Feb 2019 – Introduction to web hacking part 2
Presented by Jack Barradell
Location: Diamond LT9,
Difficulty: Easy
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24 Feb 2019 – Introductory to binary exploitation Part 2 Stack Overflows
Presented by Jack Barradell
Location: Diamond LT9,
Difficulty: Hard
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11 Feb 2019 – Introductory to binary exploitation Part 1 The Background
Presented by Jack Barradell
Location: Diamond LT9,
Difficulty: Medium
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09 Feb 2019 – Introduction to web hacking part 1
Presented by Jack Barradell
Location: Diamond LT9,
Difficulty: Easy
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09 Feb 2019 – Bitsquatting
Presented by Jack Barradell
Location: Diamond LT9,
Difficulty: Medium
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09 Feb 2019 – Cybertor
Presented by John Richardson
Location: Diamond LT9,
Difficulty: Medium
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09 Feb 2019 – Refreshers Recap
Presented by Jack Barradell
Location: Diamond LT9,
Difficulty: Easy
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