Team Buffer Overbyte • Perfect Score
Placed 26th out of 8,130 teams worldwide in CMU's flagship cybersecurity competition as part of Team Buffer Overbyte. Achieved a perfect 14,500/14,500 score, completing every challenge. Top contributor with 6,700 points.
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PicoCTF is a free cybersecurity Capture The Flag competition created by Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute. It has grown to become the world's largest hacking competition, drawing over 150,000 participants since its inception.
The challenges are designed by the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), CMU's competitive hacking team — 5-time champions at DefCon's "World Cup of Hacking."
In PicoCTF 2026, I competed as part of Team Buffer Overbyte — a blended team of 5 students from Monmouth University, Rutgers, and Brooklyn College. We placed 26th out of 8,130 teams worldwide.
I was the top contributor with 6,700 points, solving all challenges in cryptography, blockchain, forensics, and contributing to reverse engineering. The team achieved a perfect 14,500/14,500 score.
Classical ciphers, modern encryption, RSA attacks, and hash cracking
Smart contract vulnerabilities, blockchain analysis, and decentralized security
File analysis, memory forensics, network packet analysis, and steganography
Linux commands, scripting, encoding schemes, and basic security concepts
Binary analysis, disassembly, debugging, and understanding compiled code
Buffer overflows, format string vulnerabilities, and memory corruption
SQL injection, XSS, authentication bypasses, and web application vulnerabilities
Monmouth University CSSE • March 24, 2026
A blended team of 5 students — 2 from Monmouth University, 2 from Rutgers, and 1 from Brooklyn College — earned 26th place out of 8,130 teams worldwide in Carnegie Mellon's PicoCTF competition, completing all challenges for the maximum 14,500 points.
"The team earned an impressive 26th place finish out of 8,130 teams worldwide."
— Monmouth University CSSE
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