TAMUctf

TAMUctf, a CTF competition developed by fellow Aggies, will run from Fri Apr 28 12:00:00 CDT to Sun Apr 30 12:00:00 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 prize money is graciously sponsored by the Texas A&M Defense Cyber Leader Development Program

 

 

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

Additional prize money will be awarded based on raffles and first bloods for
difficult challenges. 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/g3EVgabx9e

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) has a series of questions (tasks) in a range of 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 team or individual with the most points when the game is over is the CTF winner. Famous example of such CTF is Defcon CTF quals.

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

Mixed competitions may vary possible formats. It may be something like 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 feel free to contact the development team at ctf@tamu.edu.