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UCSB CTF 08
December 7, 2008
This Friday, we hosted the 2008 edition of the UCSB international Capture The Flag (iCTF) competition. The iCTF is an 8-hour, distributed, security exercise for University teams. This year, 39 teams from 9 countries participated.
The theme of this year's edition was inspired by the 24 TV series. Each team had to break into a computer network controlled by a criminal organization to prevent a bomb from exploding. Each team had access to a separate (but identical) version of the criminal's network. Before reaching the host controlling the bomb, the teams had to compromise a web server, a financial server, and a development site, for a total of 7 services. Besides the main services to break into, teams had to solve 13 challenges in 4 categories (trivia, binary, forensics, and reverse engineering) to gain points. Points could be used to buy hints to break the services hosted on the network.
The final ranking was based on whether a team completed the mission of defusing the bomb and on the number of available points. The top 3 teams were:
- ENOFLAG, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
- SiBears, Tomsk State University, Russia
- KinkyKoders, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Congratulations to ENOFLAG and all teams that participated in the competition. See you again next year!
Note: more information and resources are available on the official CTF page.
