TAMUctf

TAMUctf, a CTF competition 100% developed, designed, and hosted by fellow Aggies, will run from Friday, April 5th, 5:00 pm CDT to Sunday, April 7th, 5:00 pm CDT. This is a great chance to put your cybersecurity skills to the test! We’ll be offering scholarship prizes for the top 5 teams from TAMU. The Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center, through the Texas A&M Defense Cyber Leader Development Program Grant, graciously sponsors the prize money.

 

 

– 1st: $5,000
– 2nd: $4,000
– 3rd: $3,000
– 4th: $2,000
– 5th: $1,000

Prizes will be distributed equally between team members.

To stay updated for when registration opens + further information, join our
Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/mAFJYfBset

Rules for Prize Eligibility

1. You must be a current TAMU student.
2. Team sizes are capped at a maximum of 3 (individuals are counted as a team
of 1).
3. All other members of your team must also be current TAMU students.

 

 

Capture the Flag (CTF) is a special kind of information security competition. There are three common types of CTFs: Jeopardy, Attack-Defense and Mixed.

 

Jeopardy-style CTFs (TAMUctf) have a series of questions (tasks) in various categories. For example, Web, Forensic, Crypto, Binary Exploitation or something else. Teams or individuals can gain points for every solved task. There are more points for more complicated tasks usually. The CTF winner is the team or individual with the most points when the game is over. A famous example of such CTF is Defcon CTF quals.

Attack defense is another interesting kind of competition. Every team has its network(or only one host) with vulnerable services. Your team usually has time to patch your services and develop exploits. Then, organizers connect participants to the competition, and the wargame starts! You should protect your services for defense points and hack opponents for attack points. Historically, this is the first type of CTF; everybody knows about DEF CON CTF – like a World Cup of all other competitions.

Mixed competitions may vary in possible formats. It may be a wargame with special time for task-based elements (e.g., UCSB iCTF).

CTF games often touch on many other aspects of information security: cryptography, stego, binary analysis, reverse engineering, mobile security, and others. Good teams generally have strong skills and experience in all these issues.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with the development team at [email protected].