The room is FULL for @the_robwaz’s talk about Speculative Execution and micro architectural vulnerabilities at @DEFCON Academy (but I only photographed the man himself)!

Spread the word! @DEFCON’s brand new @DEFCONAcademy is giving out shirts, coins, and stickers! And also KNOWLEDGE! So tell your friends (including you, @DEFCON account!) and come by room 235 today to LEARN TO HACK and GET SOME SWAG!

The @the_robwaz is setting up for his @DEFCONAcademy talk on Race Conditions at 1pm in room 235! At @DEFCON? Come learn about concurrency errors in software!

Hello Hackers! Earned a @pwncollege belt? Other amazing achievements? Hanging out @DEFCON? Come by @DEFCONAcademy and get belted at 5pm!

Hello Hackers! Come to @DEFCON Academy (room 235) for a live episode of our pwn.talk starting NOW!

Standing room only at @x3ero0’s @DEFCON Academy talk about Getting into CTF!

Come to @DEFCON Academy to see @TheWyrmSuperior talk about buffer overflows, starting in two minutes!

We are going full speed in @DEFCON's @DEFCONAcademy! Two talks down (Intro to Linux and Intro to Assembly), with the next talk (Intro to Buffer Overflows) at 3pm. Meanwhile, learners are learning through hands-on challenges between the talks. Come by and LEARN TO HACK in W235!

Me waiting for the @DARPA AI Cyber Challenge result announcement after having interviewed all the teams:

Hello hackers! Excited for @DEFCON tomorrow? Make sure to stop by @DEFCONAcademy, a brand new community effort to provide a path for everyone to LEARN TO HACK. Read on for the details! 🧵

Hello hackers! Another @pwncollege semester ends, continuing @ASU's @ace_inst's never-ending quest to revolutionize the way hackers learn to become productive members of the cybersecurity community. Read on to learn what this means for students and Capture the Flag! 🧵

@defcon Quals process: Days 0-2: hack Day 3: party, sleep, (new:) reassure the kids I won't be gone next weekend Day 4: close hundreds of tabs, terminals, IDA instances of chals. Terminate the angr script that never did finish before the CTF ended. Finally, inner peace.

Today, I participated in @DEFCON Quals #CTF with @Shellphish! After missing last year's quals due to family traditions (defcon.social/@Zardu...#CTF, it was great to be back! We got 5th place and (unless our calculations are off) are heading to finals!

And AZ CTF comes to a close! Congrats to the winners! And, of course, everyone can now tackle the chals on #pwncollege at: pwn.college/az-ctf-2...

The first edition of the Arizona CTF (this one open just to undergrads in the state's various colleges) is running right now! Just over 100 undergrads pwning at the moment across AZ, 13 challenges solved, 10 challenges and 5 hours to go. First prize is $1337. Hype!

Hello aspiring cybersecurity professors! ASU is hiring faculty in all security disciplines and all levels, and the first deadline is TONIGHT! Apply at apply.interfolio.com... and don't worry --- you can still apply tomorrow if tonight is impossible :-)

Hello hackers! In case you missed it at @DEFCON: @perribus, @adamdoupe, @the_robwaz, @TheConnorNelson, @TheDarkTangent and I announced @DEFCONAcademy! I kept meaning to spread the word, and now that there's hype (news.asu.edu/2024103...), it's time for the thread! Read on! 🧵

After a year on sabbatical, I'm about to teach again! ASU CSE 365 (Intro to Cybersecurity) stream starting, with @TheConnorNelson, imminently at twitch.tv/pwncollege!

We did it!!!! @Shellphish qualifies for the AIxCC finals!!!

Also! Are you a @pwncollege-belted hacker? We’ll do a belt ceremony ON STAGE at the end of the talk! Come to Track 2 right now!

Hello hackers! @perribus and I are about to announce @DEFCONAcademy at 4:30pm on Track 2 at @DEFCON! Can't make it to the talk? Feel the FOMO! But don't worry, we miiiiight make a thread later.

48 hours later, the @pwncollege V8 Exploitation #QuarterlyQuiz has still not been competed! There's still a chance to nab that 🥇 out from under @ky1ebot's nose! Give it a try at pwn.college/quarterl...#QuarterlyQuiz!

Hello hackers! The next #pwncollege Quarterly Quiz IS HERE! Want to test your skills on a clever collection of challenges covering concepts in v8 (chrome's javascript engine) pwning? Head over to pwn.college/quarterl...#pwncollegeand get hacking!

Fun story: dad calls me yesterday. He upgraded Ubuntu. Now, nothing works. Normal boot hangs at an initramfs issue. Recovery Mode boots into a login screen with cyrillic character input for some reason (???). His username/pw are not cyrillic, so he can't log in. Can I help?

Boring weekend? Check out one of our latest projects: the CTF Archive on pwn.college: pwn.college/ctf-arch... Capture the Flag events are depressingly fleeting: here for a weekend, then gone. The CTF Archive hopes to help change that, keeping them alive in the dojo.

The cat is out of the bag! twitter.com/DARPA/st... Read on to learn all about @ASU's brand new American Cybersecurity Education (ACE) Institute, or head over to ace-institute.asu.edu! 🧵

Today is @DEFCON Quals... and for the first time in 15 years, I am not involved in any capacity! After 9 years playing, 4 years hosting, and 2 years playing again, this weekend is going to be a family event rather than a caffeine-fueled hacking extravaganza... Complex emotions!

The Quarterly Quiz is tougher than expected... but we got your back! @ky1ebot, the author of these challenges, will host a special #pwncollege office hours at 4:30 Arizona time (4:30pm Pacific, 7:30pm Eastern, 23:30 UTC) at twitch.tv/pwncollege#pwncollege Drop in and pick his brains!

Hello Hackers! The inaugural #pwncollege Quarterly Quiz is LIVE at pwn.college/quarterl...#pwncollege It’s a series of tough kernel pwning chals from the one and only @ky1ebot, kernel hacker extraordinaire, and will lead you on a journey through Linux kernel pwning and the VFS subsystem!

Hello hackers! Tomorrow, April 1st, at 5pm Arizona time (8pm Eastern), we’ll launch the inaugural #pwncollege Quarterly Quiz! It’ll be a tough set of challenges written by one of the top hackers in the world! Drop by pwn.college/quarterl...#pwncollegetomorrow, or read on for more details!

Hello aspiring hackers! Every summer, we host high school cybersecurity enthusiasts from around the Phoenix valley for summer internships through ASU’s Center for Cybersecurity and Trusted Foundations! Applications for this summer close in under a week! ctf.asu.edu/educatio...