Security Club at CSU

About us

The Security Club at CSU is a club that meets weekly to discuss and investigate various topics of security. The topics can include current news, physical security, social engineering, exploiting vulnerabilities, how to detect system intrusions and much more.

NOTICE: The server is undergoing some maintenance, expect some delays

Meeting Times

We meet every Thursday at 5:00 PM in the NetSec lab in the Computer Science Building (CSB 315).

News

SNIPE Competition
Simulated Network Infrastructure Penetration Evaluation (SNIPE) is a competition based around giving competitors hands on experience discovering vulnerabilities in a system's infrastructure. SNIPE is a Capture the Flag tournament where anything and everything has the possibility of being a flag.
Register: Registration is open! Register here! Register your team of up to three CSU students
When: April 28
Where: NetSec lab CSB
Help advertise! If you have a few minutes, print out this poster and place it around campus! snipe-poster.pdf

Upcoming Events

Have a good summer!

Past Events

April 28: S.N.I.P.E Competiton!

April 26: SQL Injections / Officer Elections

April 19: Securing servers with FreeBSD

• Security Levels
• Jails
• Auditing
• Firewalls

April 12: Raytheon guided Question and Answer session
NOTE: This meeting will not be held in the normal NetSec lab. Instead we will be moving to CSB 130.

April 5: Password Security

• Hashing algorithms
• Password auditing (cracking)
• Policies

March 22/29: VoIP Security
March 22 slides: VoIP Security.ppt

• How they work
• Enumeration and Scans
• Exploitation
• Other Aspects

March 2-3: CCDC Rocky Mountain Regionals!

Mar 1: CCDC Preperation

Feb 26: More CCDC Prep

Feb 23: CCDC Preperation

Feb 16: Webinar with Jeff Kinzli from Cisco about finding jobs in the Security industry!

Feb 9: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities! In depth examination of one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities as well as tricks to bypass some prevention mechanisms (ASLR/NX).

Feb 2: We will be discussing wireless security (or lack there of) and have a live demo using popular tools to gain access to a network.
The presentation and files are available under Files

Jan 26: First meeting of the semester. Find out what we have lined up for this semester! We will also do a small demo on various tools in the BackTrack 5 OS.

At a glance

• Security assessment tools
  • Nmap
  • Backtrack
  • Metasploit
• Physical security
  • How locks work
  • How to exploit lock manufacturing
  • Different methods of bypassing physical security implementations
  • Live demos and tools available for members to get hands on experience
• Social engineering
  • No/low tech hacking
  • Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)