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ACM Cyber GM

Spring Quarter 2023

Slides: bit.ly/cyber-spring-gm-23

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What is ACM Cyber?

  • UCLA’s only cybersecurity club
  • run by undergraduates
  • open to beginners
  • opportunities for experts

Our Mission:

To create a community in which both experts and beginners can grow in their cybersecurity skills and knowledge. We want to make cybersecurity simple and accessible for everyone.

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Past Events

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What is cybersecurity?

“The practice of protecting critical systems and sensitive information from digital attacks” ~IBM

A very broad term, covering concepts, tools, and practices for ensuring that systems maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

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Why should I care?

  • cybersecurity is interdisciplinary, you get to learn a little bit about everything!
  • helps you better understand computer science
  • breaking/hacking things is fun! :D
  • regularly impacts your daily life.
  • offers a range of job opportunities
  • is a constantly growing area of knowledge

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Careers in Cybersecurity

There are other careers besides software engineering!

Ex.

  • security engineering
  • vulnerability research
  • security software engineering
  • smart contract auditing
  • etc.

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What will you do?

  • Be exposed to fellow cybersecurity learners and professionals!
  • Be exposed to many cybersecurity topics and then become an expert in what you choose!
  • Join our many opportunities!

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Cyber Officers

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Benson Liu

Co-President

Salma Alandary

Co-President

Laura Ness

Vice President

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Jason An

Cyber Academy Lead

Emily Sun

Officer

Gary Song

Officer

Audrey Emis

Officer

James Zhang

Officer

Savannah Alanis

Officer

Marius Genton

Officer

Rory Hemmings

Officer

Victoria Choi

Officer

Juliet Zhang

Officer

Michelle Zhao

Officer

Daniel Yang

Officer

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Officer Applications

Apply if you are passionate about ACM Cyber and creating a strong community with an emphasis on learning and understanding cybersecurity at UCLA.

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  • Applications close tonight
  • bit.ly/cyber-officer-apps-s23

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Opportunities

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Cyber Academy

  • ACM Cyber’s beginner-friendly workshop track starring…
    • Reverse Engineering and Binary Exploitation (pwn)!
  • Targeting students who have taken or are currently taking CS 33
  • We'll also host CS 33 office hours after presentations

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Cyber Academy Curriculum

  • Week 3: Intro to Reverse Engineering
  • Week 4: Binary Analysis Tools (call graphs, effectively using GDB)
  • Week 6: Binary Exploitation Tools (pwntools, GEF commands)
  • Week 7: Software Verification (formal methods & SMT solvers)
  • Week 8: Career Panel (collab with SWE @ UCLA)
  • Week 9: Game Reversing + Hacking Project :D

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Psi Beta Rho

  • competitive CTF team
  • one of the top college teams in the US
  • all skill levels welcome / no experience necessary
  • practices Tuesdays 6-8 pm, Ackerman 3517
  • Advised by Prof. Yuan Tian
  • Application: bit.ly/pbr-application-s23

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What are CTFs?

  • Cybersecurity-based competitions to help you build real-world problem solving skills and prepare for industry
  • Stands for Capture The Flag 🚩
    • Solve a puzzle → Get a flag!
  • Requires Googling skills and a dream
  • Interesting and Fun!

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Cyber Lab

  • Interested in low-level or security software engineering?!?!
  • Malware Lab
    • Monday 6-8pm
    • Kerkhoff 131+133+135
  • Secure OS Lab
    • Thursday 7-9pm
    • Boelter 4760
  • FAQ: bit.ly/cyber-lab-faq
  • Application Link (due Sunday 4/16): bit.ly/cyber-lab-s23-application

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Cyber Lab Project: Malware Lab

Have you ever wanted to write malware??!!!!

If so, this is the track for you! For this track you will…

  • Write a fully functional rootkit with remote access capabilities
  • Cover C programming, system calls, dynamic linking, networking, virtual machines, and Linux. Great preparation for CS111 and CS118

Mentor: Sanjana Sarda, UCLA alumni & Security Engineer @ Nuro

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Cyber Lab Project: Secure OS Lab

Want to write your own operating system from scratch? Check out our Secure OS Lab, where you’ll get to:

  • Make a fully functional kernel & bootloader
  • Design your own OS feature (ex. file system, secure boot, etc.)
  • Mentor: Aaron Yoo, UCLA alumni & Software Engineer at Apple

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LA CTF

Hosted for the first time last February, LA CTF is UCLA’s only weekend-long cybersecurity event and CTF competition. We will host the next LA CTF in February 2024.

Our previous hosting saw:

  • Speakers like cybersecurity YouTuber John Hammond, cyber alumni, and UCLA professors like Carey Nachenberg.
  • Fun events like CS meme competition
  • Free food and free merch!
  • (And last but certainly not least) A 42 hour long CTF competition with near-perfect ratings on CTFTime

Join the LA CTF Discord for more info.

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Events

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Cyber Socials

Goal: Cyber is for friends <3

Introducing… Cyber x Studio Socials!

  • Mario Kart + Board Game Social
  • Midterm Study + Food Social

We also have other fun socials planned, including CTF IRL and perhaps a Cyber-specific social :00

Stay tuned by joining our Discord!

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Cyber Career Panel

We will be collaborating with the Society for Women Engineers to bring you an engaging career panel!

  • Week 8 of this quarter!
  • Career panel + Resume review
  • More details to come…

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Week 8

Intramural Fields

Touching grass :D

CTF IRL 3.0

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Time for ✨social engineering✨!

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Hacking Time!🥳

  1. Find an 🫡officer🫡 and form groups.
  2. Introduce yourself.
  3. Try to 😱cyberstalk😱 or ✨social engineer✨ the following from your group.
    1. Name
    2. Major
    3. Home town
    4. Favorite TV show
    5. Etc.
  4. Go to https://picoctf.org/ to play out some challenges!

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