Hacking a Satellite for Fun and Profit

Mario Polino @ mhackeroni

A light-hearted and entertaining dive into our victorious adventure at Hack-A-Sat! Our presentation takes you on a ride through the challenges and triumphs of hacking into an orbiting satellite, the Moonlighter. What is a Capture The Flag What is Hack-A-Sat How Qualification works How to Organize a CTF Team The competition The preparation of the team for the competition Same challenge example and solution.

Mario Polino has been a hacker and CTF player since 2008. He has a PhD in Computer Security from Politecnico di Milano. Mario worked as a researcher at Politecnico, publishing scientific papers on binary and malware analysis and ML for cybersecurity.

Mario has been the captain of Politecnico’s team, Tower of Hanoi (https://toh.necst.it/about/, winner of ruCTF 2019), and is the captain of the Italian team mhackeroni (https://mhackeroni.it/ 5 times DEF CON CTF Finalist). Mario coaches Team Italy (https://teamitaly.eu/), the national Italian hacking team, and Team Europe (https://teameurope.site/), the hacking team selected among all European nations.