by Maguire Younes | Oct 5, 2025 |
Welcome to my brain dump!!!! There has just been A LOT going on recently, which is always fun, but it’s always good to recap and dump the thoughts out. I’m starting back two weeks from today, where I ran a cyber comp that went really well, but you can read...
by Maguire Younes | Sep 21, 2025 |
This weekend, CCSO hosted our biggest internal competition yet, with over 40 members jumping into a full-on Red vs. Blue showdown. It of course was pirate themed! I had the chance to lead the event, and it was awesome seeing the environment come to life. We built out...
by Maguire Younes | Sep 7, 2025
HI EVERYONE!!!!! I hope everyone had a great summer! I hope it was all you could ever ask for and more! I wanted to talk about a couple of cool cyber projects going on. Nerd things, but in my eyes, it’s very cool. But again, I am a nerd. So let me know in the...
by Maguire Younes | Apr 20, 2025
Hello fellow PLAyers! I hope this week finds you all recovered from what was, without a doubt, one of the highlights of the semester: our annual PLA Formal! This past Friday, we stepped back in time to the glitz and glamour of the Jazz Age, as our Great Gatsby theme...
by Maguire Younes | Apr 6, 2025
I I am profoundly honored and humbled to have been elected as an At-Large Representative for the 20th Assembly of the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA). This incredible journey has been both exhilarating and enlightening, and I am eager to share my...
by Maguire Younes | Apr 1, 2025
SillyCTF 2025 was absolutely insane, and I couldn’t be more stoked about how it all went down! We had 313 competitors (making up 212 teams) grinding away for 12 hours straight, solving 38 challenges in Penn State’s first-ever international cybersecurity...
by Maguire Younes | Mar 23, 2025 |
This past weekend, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the MACCDC (Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition) alongside my teammates from the CCSO (Collegiate Cyber Security Organization) at Penn State. The competition took place at the...
by Maguire Younes | Feb 24, 2025 |
This past weekend, the Bryce Jordan Center was packed with energy, passion, and an unbreakable sense of community as Penn State came together once again for THON 2025. From the moment the 46-hour dance marathon kicked off to the final reveal, the atmosphere was...
by Maguire Younes | Feb 12, 2025 |
If you were anywhere near Beaver Ave on Sunday night, you witnessed something truly special—thousands of Penn State students flooding the streets in celebration. The energy was electric, the pride was overflowing, and the moment was one for the history books. But what...
by Maguire Younes | Jan 26, 2025 |
This past weekend was an unforgettable milestone in my journey as a cybersecurity enthusiast and a proud member of Penn State’s Competitive Cyber Security Organization (CCSO). I had the immense privilege of competing alongside an extraordinary team at the Global...
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