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Description

The UCSB International Capture The Flag (also known as the iCTF) is a distributed, wide-area security exercise, whose goal is to test the security skills of the participants from both the attack and defense viewpoints.

During the iCTF, a number of teams compete independently against each other. We provide each team with an indentical copy of a virtualized network installation (for example, a Linux host). The host includes a number of programs and network services, which we developed and in which we intentionally introduced a number of vulnerabilities. The task of each team, then, is to find the vulnerabilities, fix them without disrupting the normal operations of the programs, and leverage their knowledge about the vulnerabilities to compromise the servers run by other teams.

The ICTF is organized by Giovanni Vigna and the Computer Security Group at UCSB. Refer to Giovanni Vigna's iCTF webpage for more information about the history, participation requirements, and rules of the iCTF.

2009

• Theme: Know your enemy!
• Participants: 56 teams
• Game: 5 browsers, 19 challenges
• Ranking:
  1. CInsects (University of Hamburg, Germany)
  2. We_0wn_Y0u (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
  3. Chocolate Makers (Università degli studi di Milano, Italy)

2008

• Theme: Softerror.com: We put the error in terror
• Participants: 39 teams
• Game: 7 services, 13 challenges
• Ranking:
  1. ENOFLAG (Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
  2. SiBears (Tomsk State University, Russia)
  3. KinkyKoders (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
• More info...

2007

• Theme: Music And Film Industry Association
• Participants: 36 teams
• Game: 7 services, 21 challenges
• Ranking:
  1. Chocolate Makers (Università degli studi di Milano, Italy)
  2. Squareroots (University of Mannheim, Germany)
  3. HackerDom (Ural State University, Russia)
• More info...

2006

• Theme: HillBilly Bank
• Participants: 25 teams
• Game: 8 services, 10 quests
• Ranking:
  1. We_0wn_Y0u (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
  2. Wizards Of DoS (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
  3. WCSC (University of South Florida, Tampa, Forida, USA)
• More info...

2005

• Theme: SPAM
• Participants: 22 teams
• Game: 13 services
• Ranking:
  1. 0ld Eur0pe (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
  2. We_0wn_Y0u (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
  3. Wizards of DoS (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
• More info...

Press

The iCTF has often been covered by the media. Here are the references to some of the articles, videos, and radio programs that covered the topic.

• A. List, Hacker-Studenten: Deutsche und Österreicher top, pressetext.austria, December 10, 2007
• Deutsches Team belegt zweiten Platz bei internationalem Hackerwettbewerb, Heise online, December 10, 2007
• M. Kettmann, UCSB Hosts Largest Computer Hacking Competition Ever, Santa Barbara Independent, December 8, 2007
• trk, TU Vienna takes victory in virtual bank heist, Heise online, December 10, 2006
• TU Wien gewinnt "Capture The Flag", December 10, 2006, ORF.at