We are proud to share that five of our Foxes (Rob Ragan, Oscar Salazar, Berenice Flores, Hector Cuevas, and Ivan Sanchez) will be presenting at HackGDL on Saturday, March 16, 2024. HackGDL is a unique cybersecurity event with both conference sessions and workshops on different topics - mainly hacking. There will also be social activities and fun dynamics throughout the event. 

For more info on this meetup, go here.

"Cut the CTF and Start Hacking!"

Ivan Sanchez | Saturday, March 16 at 12 p.m. CT

The objective of the talk is to show the pros of doing CTFs and at the same time make visible the not so positive aspects that they entail or can generate. Likewise, it seeks to raise awareness about the subsequent challenges that you may encounter as a CTF player. Exemplifying with a real case that I went through before being able to enter the world of offensive cybersecurity professionally.

"Testing LLM Algorithms While AI Tests Us"

Rob Ragan & Oscar Salazar | Saturday, March 16 at 1 p.m. CT

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming integral to our digital interactions, ensuring their security and usability is paramount. This presentation embarks on a journey through the compelling intersection of these two pivotal domains within the automation landscape. The discourse unfolds cutting-edge methodologies, techniques, and tools employed in threat modeling, API testing, and red teaming, all aimed at fortifying security measures within these artificial narrow intelligent systems. Engage in a thought-provoking exploration of how we, as users and developers, can strategically plan and implement tests for GenAi & LLM systems, ensuring their robustness and reliability. The presentation not only demystifies the complexities of security testing in LLMs but also sparks a conversation about our daily interactions with GenAi, prompting us to ponder our conscious and subconscious engagements with these technologies.

"Soldering Workshop"

Berenice Flores, Hector Cuevas, Ivan Sanchez | Saturday, March 16 at 2:40 p.m. CT

The objective of the workshop is to offer a first experience in how to solder electronic components. This skill is quite useful in the field of hardware hacking. We will have 3 instructors to be able to provide the necessary help to attendees.

"Introduction to Steganography - Discovering Secrets"

Hector Cuevas & Jessica Álvarez | Saturday, March 16 at 5 p.m. CT

Applied steganography is not a highly addressed area. Based on practical exercises, attendees will be taught to identify hidden data, hide information with simple techniques and critically discern if a file is worth the time of analysis. Techniques in multimedia formats, compressed formats and steganography in text and covert channels will be addressed. There is also a CTF-type exercise that they must solve to test what they have learned.

"AI Dangers in the Firmament: Vulnerabilities in ML Frameworks in the Cloud"

Berenice Flores | Saturday, March 16 at 6 p.m. CT

Several machine learning and big data frameworks have gained popularity this year with the rise of ChatGPT and other LLMs. This popularity has caused the framework to focus on development to scale the capacity and operation of parallel computing in the cloud, leaving aside the implementation of security mechanisms. In this talk, I will tell you about the research process I carried out on Ray Framework, which resulted in CVE-2023-48022 and CVE-2023-48023. This investigation has had great international coverage in various media such as DarkReading and SecurityWeek.

"Lockpicking Village"

Hector Cuevas | Saturday, March 16 - ALL DAY

This village will teach attendees how locks, handcuffs, safe-deposit box and suitcases works and how to bypass security mechanisms. We will take the whole material and even will teach theory about picks.