Blog on CASSA

Website Migration

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800

What happened?

The CASSA website used to use the Ghost CMS, but it was decided that as the site is actually static, there is no point using a dynamic CMS platform and hosting the site locally when it cna become static and be hosted in the cloud.

This creates the benefit, that if the CASSA severs ever go down or their internet connection drops, the website can still run, increasing the cassa.au uptime.

Learn 2 Linux Semester 2

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800

L2L

On the 2nd of September from 11am-2pm in Joondalup Campus, Building 2 Room 126, CASSA ran the 2026 Semester 2 Learn 2 Linux (L2L) workshop.

this workshop was led by La “Laura” Luo, in her first ever workshop. It ran without a hitch using the Docker Labs v1 infastructure to give all the attendees a Linux VM they could connect to through a browser-based webshell.

Industry Connect S25

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0800

Wednesday night saw CASSA celebrate our second Industry Connect for the year, giving the opportunity for students to speak to and learn from people in the computing and security industries.

The committee would like to thank everyone who helped whether volunteering on the day, helping to plan and most importantly a massive thank you to our incredible panellists who without their help the event wouldn’t be possible

CASSA x PECAN+ CTF Creator Competition 🏆

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0800

Design challenges for PECAN+!

Do you want to put your cybersecurity skills to the test in a different way? RedRoom and CASSA are hosting the CTF Creator Contest, where ECU students can design their own CTF challenges! The best challenges will be featured in PECAN+, a national high school CTF competition.

You only need a ticket if you plan on attending the workshop

S1: ECU Open Day

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0800

Open Day

CASSA had the opportunity to meet prospective new students to give them a rundown of the advantages of getting involved with academic clubs like CASSA (and what makes us great) on their academic journey at the ECU Open Day.

We’d like to thank Karina, the ECU staff, volunteers and school ambassadors for all of their work with making the day a success!

S1: Careers Fair Day

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0800

Guild Fair

CASSA was thrilled to have the opportunity to speak with current and future students as well as industry professionals at the ECU careers fair day. We’d like to thank and welcome all of our new members, as well as all of the wonderful industry representatives we had the chance to speak with on the day.

S1: CASSA Start of Semester Social (SoSS)

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0800

We started 2025 with a bang, enjoying a very successful start of semester social. 30+ people came and enjoyed a night of games, highlighted by a CASSA and computer science inspired game of Family Feud hosted by our own Steve Harvey, the beloved president Lachlan Marshall.

We look forward to seeing everyone on campus and discord - CASSA committee