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4th edition of Cyber ROOT Conference

02 November 2022

On Wednesday 26th October we attended the 4th edition of Cyber ROOT Conference in Valletta. Duing the event MITA launched the National Cyber...

Cybersecurity roadshow

25 October 2022

On Monday 24th Oct, we hosted 45 MCAST ICT students attended a Web Application Security workshop delivered by Invicti Security (Malta) at th...

2022 Challenges Awards

15 October 2022

On Tuesday 11th October, during a talk by eSkills held as part of MCAST Freshers' week, we had the pleasure to present awards to the three H...

A chat with Kate Bachman

24 August 2022

Yesterday we had the pleasure of holding a session with Kate Bachman - VP, Corporate Communicatio...

ECSC Training Bootcamp: August 2022

10 August 2022

Between Thursday 4 and Sunday 8 August 2022 we had the pleasure to host the second ECSC Training Bootcamp at the MCAST Resource Centre. The ...

ECSC Training Bootcamp: July 2022

25 July 2022

Between Thursday 21 and Sunday 24 July 2022 we had the pleasure to host the first ECSC Training Bootcamp at the MCAST Resource Centre. The e...

MCAST Open Days

30 June 2022

Last Friday HackSpace was present at the MCAST Open Days in an effort to meet prospective ...

Visit to MITA Data Centre

17 June 2022

Today members of MCAST HackSpace, accompanied by a small number of IICT lecturers, visited the MITA Security Operations Centre (SOC), the Ne...

ECSC 1-day bootcamp training

21 May 2022

On Saturday 21st May, in collaboration with MITA, we hosted 17 participants at MCAST Student House. They were taking part in a 1-day bootcam...

HackSpace Challenge Summary

27 April 2022

MCAST HackSpace organised the 2022 HackSpace Challenge on the 20th April 2022, at the newly opened MCAST Resource Centre. It was the first e...

2022 HackSpace Challenge

29 March 2022

The event will be held on the 20th April at the new MCAST Resource Centre and will be open to everyone...

MCAST & eSkills Malta Foundation sign agreement

02 March 2022

Yesterday the Malta College for Arts, Science, and Technology (MCAST) and Malta’s eSkills Foundation have signed ...

Introduction to Fuzzing

20 February 2022

"Fuzz testing (or Fuzzing) is a Black Box software testing technique, which basically consists in finding implementation bugs using malforme...

Introduction to Function Hooking

09 February 2022

How does an antivirus perform real-time protection? How does something like valgrind detect memory leaks...

Log4j: Understanding Security Vulnerabilities

01 February 2022

Log4j is an open-source logging framework that allows software developers to log data within their applications. This data can include user ...

Second Hacking Competition

31 January 2022

Welcome to the second edition of our Hacking Competition.

First Hacking Competition

14 January 2022

Welcome to the first edition of our Hacking Competition.

From Bug to Hack

03 January 2022

On Wednesday 5th January we will hold a session titled "From Bug to Hack: research topics in cyber security" aimed squarely at students who ...

Web Vulnerability Scanning

01 January 2022

"A vulnerability scanner sends special data to your website or web application – the type of data that a malicious hacker would send. Howeve...

Demystifying the Dark Web

02 December 2021

In recent times, the dark web and the activities associated with it have been given exposure in both national and international news reports...

Prof. Sanjay Sarma

13 November 2021

Yesterday we had the opportunity to attend a session with Professor Sanjay Sarma from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During the sess...

Personal Security Audits

02 November 2021

We will be doing trial sessions called "Personal Security Audit", meant for a small number of members. This first round will serve as a temp...

cyber ROOT 21

17 October 2021

cyber ROOT 21 is an online webinar that tries to tackle cyber security from different aspects, taking both the technological and the busines...

MCAST Freshers Week

13 October 2021

This morning was the first official event held by MCAST HackSpace where we hosted an encouraging number of students for an hour of online se...

Thanks for scanning the QR Code

29 September 2021

Hacking is about looking at problems in a different way, maybe a way that no one has thought of. Curiosity is often the spark that gets you ...

Start of the Journey

14 September 2021

MCAST HackSpace is an initiative within MCAST Applied Research & Innovation Centre (ARIC). It will be operated under the Information & C...