Travis Goodspeed Visit

Renderman Visit

Mike Kershaw Visit

Bruce Potter Visit

CyberDawn 2009

Google Hack!

Capture The Flag

CDX 2009.

ShmooCon 2009

Defcon 2009 - TBD


Haxathon (2010)

Haxathon 2010 was won by a very talented underclassmen, Cadet Greg Ecklin.

RenderMan (The Return)

Render addressed the cadets in IT485E (Exploitation) and taught cadets valuable lessons about the insecurities in different wireless protocols and the open source tools that can be used by adversaries to break into unsecure wireless networks.

Chris Gates Visit

Chris, a former graduate of the United States Military Academy, addressed cadets and explained his current occupation as a penetration tester and his work with the open source project MetaSploit.

Travis Goodspeed Visit

Travis, a top security researcher in the fields of reverse engineering and embedded systems cam and spoke with the cadets and faculty about the vulnerabilities in using embedded systems and the applications to topics from smart meters in the power grid to smart minefields in the battlefield.

Renderman Visit

Brad Haines, (AKA Renderman), a security researcher and computer security expert came and spoke with the cadets and faculty about several aspects of computer security and the methods he uses to break into systems as a professional penetration tester. It was a very exciting talk for the cadets and as you can see many instructors and cadets stayed to ask lots of in-depth questions.

ShmooCon 2010

ShmooCon in SnowApocalypse went great! We had some awesome talks and learned a whole lot of new information. Check out a partial video of Cadet Mike Weigand's talk below:

Video of UAV Flight:

Video of Mike's Talk:

Mike Kershaw (Kismet Wireless) Visit

Mr. Kershaw, a legendary hacker with expert knowledge of wireless hacking visited and talked to some of the cadets, including advising a few cadets on capstone projects. Some photos below


Bruce Potter Visit

Mr. Potter, a legend from the Shmoo Group and expert on advanced penetration testing talked to the cadets, faculty and staff about the aspects of trusted computing...

CyberDawn 2009

The cadets brought home an outstanding 3rd place at CyberDawn. They placed ahead of every other school there, only placing behind AOL and BAE. Great job!

Google Hack

The cadets investigated an Army post using Google and found some interesting results, including a pretty good phone number :) and information that should have never found its way to the internet ...

Capture The Flag (CTF) 2009

Cadet Alan Lewis, SIGSAC CIC, configures his firewall to prevent another attack from the faculty red team in the opposite room...

NSA Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX) 2009

Cadet Nate Larsen, Former SIGSAC CIC, leads the Cyber Defense Team in CS482 to a threepeat of the NSA CDX Title....

ShmooCon 2009

Cadet Tera Cobari (Cisco Ninja) presents her research at ShmooCon in front of hundreds of hackers.