International Capture The Flag

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International Capture The Flag (iCTF) is an international hacker competition which is organized annually by Giovanni Vigna from the Institute for Computer Security at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA). The tasks are redefined every year.

history

In 2001 and 2002, the University of Santa Barbara hosted several real-time exercises for its students.

In December 2003 the first national event under the name UCSB CTF (University of California, Santa Barbara Capture the Flag) was held, in which the teams were encouraged to compromise the networks of the other teams and at the same time to defend their own network. 14 teams from the University of California, Santa Barbara, North Carolina State University , the Naval Postgraduate School , the United States Military Academy , the Georgia Institute of Technology , the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign participated .

In 2004, teams from Austria, Germany, Italy and Norway took part for the first time. The event was renamed iCTF (International Capture The Flag).

procedure

The competition is held over the Internet, with each team competing against every other team at the same time.

The participants are assigned servers at the beginning of the competition. Programs are installed on these which must be kept running. The first thing to do is to analyze servers and programs, identify weak points and close security gaps. At the same time, precisely these identified weak points are to be used to attack the opponent. There are points for all of this. You also get points if your own programs are kept running despite attacks.

winner

year First place Second place third place Participating teams
2018 RussiaRussia SiBears RussiaRussia Bushwhackers United StatesUnited States Identified 266
2017 RussiaRussia Bushwhackers UkraineUkraine dcua AustriaAustria WE_0WN_Y0U 315
2015 RussiaRussia Bushwhackers GermanyGermany saarsec UkraineUkraine dcua 35
2014 HungaryHungary SpamAndHex RussiaRussia Bushwhackers AustriaAustria We0wny0u 88
2013 United StatesUnited States PPP AustriaAustria We0wnY0u United StatesUnited States SecDawgs 97
2012 RussiaRussia Bushwhackers HungaryHungary ! SpamAndHex RussiaRussia More smoked leet chicken 71
2011 AustriaAustria We_0wn_Y0u RussiaRussia More smoked leet chicken GermanyGermany FluxFingers 87
2010 United StatesUnited States PPP GermanyGermany 0ldEur0pe ItalyItalyc00kies @ venice CInsects
GermanyGermany		 73
2009 GermanyGermany CInsects AustriaAustria We_0wn_Y0u ItalyItaly ChocolateMakers 56
2007 ItalyItaly Chocolate Makers GermanyGermany squareroots RussiaRussia HackerDom 25th
2006 AustriaAustria We_0wn_Y0u WizardsOfDos United StatesUnited States WCSC 20th
2005 GermanyGermany 0ld Eur0pe AustriaAustria We_0wn_Y0u WizardsOfDos 22nd
  1. ↑ Due to scheduling problems, the event took place from April 10th to 11th, 2015.

Austria

The team at the Technical University of Vienna We0wnY0u (also active under We_0wn_y0u and W0U ) consisted of lecturers and students from the Advanced Internet Security course , which is held jointly by the Institute for Computer-Aided Automation and the Institute for Software and Interactive Systems as well as the SBA Research research center .

Others

Similar events are:

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official homepage of the iCTF competition. Retrieved April 14, 2015 .
  2. ↑ CTF Time. Retrieved March 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Vienna University of Technology. Retrieved April 27, 2015 .