Bryce Boe

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UCSB’s International Capture The Flag Competition 2010 Challenge 6: Fear The EAR

9 December, 2010 (15:34) | General | By: Bryce Boe

Each year the Security Lab at UCSB hosts the International Capture the Flag competition, an approximately eight-hour security competition pitting security groups at various universities around the world against each other. Last year I had the privilege of contributing significantly to the setup on the iCTF, and later publishing and presenting a paper, “Organizing Large [...]

Submitting Binaries to VirusTotal

1 September, 2010 (01:12) | General | By: Bryce Boe

VirusTotal is a web service that essentially performs a virus scan of an uploaded file, or url against many of the top virus scanners (see full list). I recently needed to submit over 100 binaries to VirusTotal, and being a computer scientist I knew this task, like many other things I do, could be perfectly [...]