On april 26th to 28th Ural State University held first open Russian CTF challenge in informaion security among universities — RuCTF2008.
RuCTF is a team challenge in information security, its main aim is to evaluate capabilities of participants to protect computer systems and to carry out security audit. Challenge rules are based on international
CTF rules.
Participants of RuCTF2008 represented 14 different Russian universities. There were 9 teams. RuCTF2008 — was the largest challenge in information security among university students ever held in Russia.
The main idea of the game is the following. Each team gets a server from jury with preinstalled vulnerable services. Servers are identical at the start of the game. Teams' tasks are to maintain services up and running, prevent intrusion attempts, carry out audit of other teams' servers. It is necessary for teams to find and patch vulnerabilities on their servers. At the same time, knowing some vulnerabilities, it is possible to do the audit of other teams. For maintaining services up and for submitting flags, found on other servers, team earns points.
Final results:
- Hackerdom (USU)
- Smoked Chicken (SUSU, ChSU)
- Reboot (USATU)
- Keva (TUSUR)
- NIIChaVo (USU)
- eXpl0it (KSTU)
- SiBears (TSU)
- Guard'e (KSU)
- Guests (VSU, YarSU, KSUAE, TSUR, USU)
Experts, independent spectators and IT professionals were present at the challenge.
There was a conference held in the context of RuCTF2008 with the following themes discussed:
- Breaking da C.A.P.T.C.H.A;
- Analysis of optimality of distribution of traffic in heterogeneous lans;
- SNMP security research;
- Secutiry of Apache web server;
- Wardriving Wi-Fi.
See more details at
www.ructf.org.
Oranizers and jury pointed out high level of teams that participated in RuCTF2008. Companies that specialize in IT solutions in information security showed great interest in this challenge. Professionals in IT bussiness remarked high educational and professional potentials of the challenge. They became interested in working with participants of RuCTF2008.