The Practical Training options for first year SAL students has been published!
SAL’s .hidden CTF team 1st place at USV-CTF
On November 27th 2025, the cybersecurity team of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bucharest, dothidden, had the honor of participating in the 10th edition of the USV-CTF competition that was held online for 24 hours.
The team formed by our Bachelor in Computer Science students Scânteie Alexandru-Ioan (Year 2), Granat Andrei-Ionuț (Year 1), Dodu Andrei-Daniel (Year 1) and Andreiana Bogdan Mihail (Year 2) obtained the 1st place out of 67 in the competition consisting of teams from 15 national and international universities.
The exercise proposed at the USV-CTF consisted of a pentesting task on a virtual machine provided by the organizers, a task in which the team exploited web vulnerabilities such as OWASP top 10 (SQL Injection, Server-side template injection (SSTI), JWT crafting, etc.), performed reverse engeineering on an Android Application and, ultimately, performed privillage escalation to gain root. The technical report can be found at https://dothidden.xyz/ctfs/ctf-usv_2025/squidgame/.
Practical Training for First Year Students 2025
The Practical Training options for first year SAL students has been published!
Practical Training for First Year Students 2024
The Practical Training options for first year SAL students has been published!
Practical Training for First Year Students 2023
The Practical Training options for first year SAL students has been published!
SAL’s .hidden CTF team is placed second in Romania
The .hidden CTF team, founded by 4 passionate SAL students less than 3 months ago, has gained momentum placing second country wise on the global leaderboard on CTFtime for 2023 and 449th out of 23,152 worldwide.
.hidden has been on a streak in recent CTF competitions and are planning to attend more over the summer:
- N00bz CTF 2023 – 13/855
- DanteCTF 2023 – 19/702
- Stranger Case 2023 – 46/161
- Unbreakable 2023 – 7/55
- Heroctf V5 – 38/1085
- Pwnme Qualifis – 91/501
- UMDCTF 2023 – 55/745
If you are interested to join their team, feel free to contact them at contact@dothidden.xyz.
Practical Training for First Year Students
The Practical Training options for first year SAL students has been published!
SAL 2022 summer admission registration open!
We announce that the registration for the summer admission process is now open!
Those interested in attending the Security and Applied Logic Master Program should register here until the 15th of July 2022.
Follow the Faculty’s Admission webpage here for more information and updates!
Logic and LOS seminars are now hybrid
The weekly Logic Seminar (Thu 10-12) and LOS Research Center Seminar (Tue 14-16) will now also take place physically in the Google Room. Students of the SAL Master are strongly encouraged to participate and engage in the research activities.