During last weekend, we host our first internal Capture the Flag competition, which we called OILCTF. Challenges are designed by members of CUHK CTF team g33z. This CTF aims to provide students some exercises as a follow-up of CTF Training Camp. After 48 hours, 0x000505AD won the 1st place with almost all challenges. Congrats! There will be […]
War Stories from an Ethical Hacker
Felix is an ethical hacker with PwC with more than 10 years of experience. This Monday, he came to Open Innovation Lab and gave an excellent talk about his “war stories” as an ethical hacker, experience of dealing with cyber criminals in his multiple cyber wars and career path as an ethical hacker/ cybersecurity professional. […]
CTF Training Camp for Hackers – Topic 4: Misc
This week we had our last training topic. In this talk, Xianbo tried to cover as many as possible remaining topics in CTF, including digital forensic, infrastructure hacking and Android security. Basics for each topic were introduced and examples has been shown. In the end, Xianbo also demonstrated an interesting Android game hacking case to […]
CTF Training Camp for Hackers: Topic 3 – Binary
Details about this event: click me QR code for registration: Update (27/02/2018): Last night, our old friend Kyle (click here for his previous OIL talk), conducted a binary hacking training session for students. This time, he tried to spend more time on fundamental knowledges and simple examples to guide starters into the door of binary world. […]
Announcement: Launch of SSTeM: the new Support System for our Tech Meetups
Exciting news: we have recently launched SSTeM, our new Support System for Tech Meetups. This system consists of the: Event Registration and Check-in subsystem Suggestion Management subsystem Automatic Posting subsystem With SSTeM system, you no longer need to repeatedly input your information into our Google registration form every time you attend OIL Meetups. Below are instructions on how to use […]
CTF Training Camp for Hackers: Topic 1 & Topic2
Recently, the first two CTF training sessions had been successfully held. The first session on 5 Feb was about web hacking. The speakers, Chris and Raymond are both CS undergraduate as well as participants of last year’s PwC CTF. They explained basic knowledge and techniques like SQLi and XSS with assistant of interesting examples. After […]
Information Session for CTF Training Camp
We are providing a series of training for CTF this semester. Every student can join and improve your hacking skills as well as learn more cyber security knowledge. Around 50 people came to information session last night. Thank you all for coming and special thanks to those CTF members who volunteered to organise the training […]
A Share on Algorithm Trading Strategy Design and Testing
This is the first time we host a talk about the topic algorithm trading. Our guest speaker, Peter, gave us a valuable sharing about his own experience on designing and testing algorithm trading strategy. Those lessons he learned from his working and research experience are very inspiring. He has made a very good summary of those […]
Rubik’s Cube Workshop Series
In the last two weeks, we had two sessions of Rubik’s cube workshop. Basically, the first one was about how to solve cubes fast and the second one was about how to solve any cubes. In the first session: Into the World of Rubik’s Cubes, our honoured guest speaker Yin Mulun, the current record holder of […]
Bitcoin, Blockchain and Smart Contracts
In this wonderful talk, Johnny and Leo talked about blockchain and it’s application in smart contracts and insurance. They also guided audience to try examples on their laptops step by step. More than 50 people come and we want to apologize to those standing in the back. After the talk, two speakers were surrounded by audience, chat and discussion lasted for more than […]