Amateur Capture the Flag 2 (Registration / Info)

[Vyrus]

Register for aCTFII at http://dc949.org/aCTFII/reg.php

[Vyrus]

well i guess with that said, i should post some info on the contest here :P

-=[ What is "King of the Hill" ]=-

King of the hill is a simple game, take the hill, keep the hill, for as long as possible. Who ever can do that the longest wins, its that simple. There are 10 computers or "victims" on the network, along with a scorekeeper and a dhcp server. Each of these 10 computers are vunarable to SOME sort of attack. Some are easy, some are a little harder, there level of difficulty is ranged from 1 - 10, 1 being the easiest to hack and 10 being the hardest. Hack a service on any box and you get points, keep control of the box without stopping any of the services or rebooting the box and you will get more points. who ever has the most points at the end of the game wins.

Last year, we had one server which was the hill. It was running Mandrake 2005 LE with all services running and no firewall. The scorekeeper polled certain services every minute to see who's team name was in the banner, and recorded that. As it turns out, nobody was able to put their teamname into any of the banners. About 2/3 of the code for the scorekeep was written the night before the con, and we didnt' get a chance to test to see what hacks worked. That's where this year will be different...

First of all, we'll have tested vulnerabilities. This will prevent the "no winner" syndrom that we were infected with last year. Also, we're going to have 10 servers to take over. Each one will be bigger and tougher than the previous, and the rewards will reflect this. A service on victim #1 will score 1 point per minute, victim 5 will be 5 points per minute and so on up to victim #10. The scorekeeper will be very much like last year, however we decided to make it a little more interesting. We're not going to tell you what services we're monitoring. We're specifically tracking down hubs for this contest and not switches, so if you want to know what files we're monitoring and how we're monitoring them you'll have to figure it out.

I will say that the basic pricipal will be the same, the scorekeep will look to see what's in a certain file and make a note of it. On lower levels this may be as simple as just a team name, but on the upper levels there may be some encoding or even encrypting!

[Vyrus]

DC949 now has an RSS feed! :P

so to keep posted on aCTFII news as well as our other projects check out the page here

[dYn4mic]

DC949 now has an RSS feed! :P

so to keep posted on aCTFII news as well as our other projects check out the page here

Page/site is down... maybe we could get updates here?

(google cache isn't much info...)

[adam]

Sorry about that downtime. The server had to be moved a bit earlier than expected and the DNS had to propigate. We don't expect any more downtime. It's not everyday that you move from one datacenter to another.

All the info is out there at https://www.dc949.org/aCTFII

[Hardware]

we have 5 teams as of now. Somebody better win this year.

[loki151]

can you win best noob as in you have no idea what your doing

[Vyrus]

lol with the way things are going, you might be able to get into a box and have no idea what your doing :P

there will be some goodies for those l33t fiew out there though ;)

[Rain]

hmm

i want to start looking for a team... but not that many of my friends are going this year... something about economy changes and affordability,you know, that garbage. :) Hell, DC is worth going broke to me.... ;x

[Vyrus]

Re: Amateur Capture the Flag 2 (Registration / Info)

OK as of right now there are more than 60 people registerd for this contest. that being said as it is the team is working quite heard to make sure this contest actuly happens filling the machines with sploits and what not... with that menny people playing its a whole new ballgame. that being said, reg is closeing this friday so if ure not reged yet and u wana play SIGN UP NOW!!!

[jeremycec]

Re: Amateur Capture the Flag 2 (Registration / Info)

I can't find anywhere that it says when/where aCTF is going to be held. Since our group is prolly going to be involved in several other things at DC 14, it would be nice to know. Thx,

Jeremy
http://wcsc.myweb.usf.edu

[Vyrus]

Re: Amateur Capture the Flag 2 (Registration / Info)

our contest will be day 1 only (we are shooten for 10 am to 10 pm), as for where, well i havent seen any of the floor plans and such yet so i dont know but as soon as i do ill post the information

[The Dark Tangent]

Re: Amateur Capture the Flag 2 (Registration / Info)

our contest will be day 1 only (we are shooten for 10 am to 10 pm), as for where, well i havent seen any of the floor plans and such yet so i dont know but as soon as i do ill post the information

In the contest area?

[Vyrus]

Re: Amateur Capture the Flag 2 (Registration / Info)

lol well i would hope so :P but nobody actuly "said" that so im goin for hopeing here ;)