Cyber Security has been a dedicated passion of mine for the past 4 years, and in 2019, I was given the opportunity to present that passion. The video to the left is my presentation to a panel of judges who ended up giving me a scholarship because they thought my project was a cool idea and well presented. If you would like to watch it, you can just click on the picture.

For my project, I decided to exploit the security of a Motorola cell phone running Android 9.0. At the time, it was the most current version of android. What this exploit allowed me to do was view text messages, apps, call logs, system files, and access the camera. And I could do this all without the phone's user knowing.

Since I was still pretty new to penetration testing at the time, the methods used were very amateur. For starters, my laptop and phone had to be connected to the same network, and I didn't have to use any sort of social engineering to get the exploitation app onto the phone. But I have continued to improve upon this project, and now I am able to do this while on different networks and by using social engineering to get the app onto the user's phone.

This was the first opportunity that I had to show my skills in this field, and I am very proud about what I was able to achieve at my first attempt and how much I have improved in the past 2 years of doing this.