CUCyber @ Columbia
Cyber Security Practice & Capture The Flag Student Organization

The Club

Columbia University's student organization CUCyber is a place for students to experience cybersecurity in practice and familiarize themselves with industry standards. We are a constantly growing team of highly engaged students, who meet regularly to share thoughts on security topics, discuss hacker news and participate in competitions such as Hackathons and Capture the Flags (CTF). As campus club, our ambitions are three-folded: Improving our own technical skills, providing a link between academia and industry and serving the community by bringing security education to non-security majors. As such, we are happy to provide training, and to host info sessions with industry contacts.

Skill Labs

Educational labs with the purpose of teaching practical security skills.

Policy Discussions

Open discussion of relevant news, policy and events in cyber security.

Meet the Professionals

Network and hear about working in the industry from guest speakers.

CTFs

Test your skills in red and blue-team Capture The Flag competitions.

Projects

Develop your own hacky solution for any of the following topics

The Raspberry Pi and Kali Linux are a perfect platform to homenbrew a Hak5 Pineapple style Man-in-the-Middle WiFi Network. For educational purposes, of course!
Rogue access point
Rogue access point
We all know that WEP and WPA (1) are depricated. In this project you can find out why, by breaking in to a real (but unsufficiently secured) WiFi Network. You heard about KRAck against WPA2? Could be next!
WEP/WPA Hacking
WEP/WPA Hacking
Monitoring network traffic like a real CSO? Get yourself familiar with Snort/Surricata, AlienVault and others and deploy them in a real network!
Intrusion Detection/ SIEM
Intrusion Detection/ SIEM
WhatsApp got hacked, Facebook eavesdrops your messages. Why is message encryption so difficult? Learn about PGP and set up an infrastructure for Email Encryption.
Email Encryption
Email Encryption
Fuzzing, Taint, Symbolic Execution? How are security vulnerabilities found in real software? Use our resources to run AFL, Valgrind, etc.
Bug Hunter
Bug Hunter

Our Story

We have achieved amazing things together!

  • Back on Campus!

    Sep 2021

    Back on Campus!

    We are back, and stronger than ever! The team is looking forward to the upcoming CTF season and in-person meetings.

  • Going Virtual

    March 2020 - Aug 2021

    Going Virtual

    Even the pandemic didn't stop us from holding hacking workshops and competing together!

  • Cyberforce Competition

    Dec 2019

    Cyberforce Competition

    The team's first large-scale on-site competition in which they had to serve as a Blueteam for an enterprise network - scoring 60th best team in the country.

  • picoCTF

    Sep - Oct 2019

    picoCTF

    We had 5 teams of students compete in the Carnegie Mellon based CTF, one team placing in the top 5%, while all others were in the top 10%.

  • CUCyber

    Jan 2019

    CUCyber

    As the original group graduated, the newer memebers took over and decided to expand the team into a community on campus.

  • MuddGulch

    Sep 2018

    MuddGulch

    Three close friends created Columbia's originial CTF team named "MuddGulch"

  • Be Part
    Of Our
    Story!

    Be Part Of
    Our Story!

Our Amazing Team

We have so much fun together. Our Alumni successfully entered the job market at companies like Google, VISA, and Red Balloon Security, or pursue their PhDs at top tier Universities.

Columbia University
Red Balloon Security

Contact Us

Want to join? Shoot us an email and subscribe to our mailing list. You can also just show up in our Weekly Security Skill Labs, normally on Thursdays 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM @CS Lounge, but check our calendar for updated appointments. Everybody is welcome!