CTF in Russia

If you thought I will tell you about the great "mochilovo" in some cool 3D-shooter, or pick a game with sticks and rags — you are mistaken. We will focus on competitions in the field of computer security. In Russia.
the a Little background information:

/ > CTF is a team competition, the purpose of which is to assess the ability of participants to attack and defend computer systems.
Each team is given a server(the image's path), which has a range of services(all the same). Services, as you have probably guessed, have a number of vulnerabilities deliberately introduced by their developers. Normally services are written in 5-9 programming languages.

The goal is to ensure the functionality of its services, to protect the flags (some information on the server), capture the flags of the enemy. Ie in essence the problem boils down to:
the
    the
  • terms of health services, which is periodically verified by the jury
  • the
  • development of patches for services vulnerabilities
  • the
  • writing exploits exploit, drawing flags from the enemy servers.

The OS on the server, the languages which will be written services, and so on. is not known in advance.
The competition usually lasts 7-8 hours.
The game is made both locally and remotely via the Internet.

the Strictly speaking of CTF in Russia,

What is worse than a drunken Russian hacker?:)
Russia held the following events:
UralCTF 2006 severe Ural undergraduate and graduate students of Ural state University and Chelyabinsk team competitions at the regional scale.
Official website UralCTF.

In 2008, with the support of USU and a number of sponsors, the team HackerDom held the first interuniversity open competition in information security RuCTF 2008. Then the competition was attended by 9 teams.
In 2009 the application for participation in RuCTF 2009 filed already 31 teams! The competition was held in two stages. At first I had deleted the qualifying round RuCTF Quals on the basis of which we selected 16 teams. They were held in the main stage competitions that took place in person at the USU. The winning team SiBears.
Official website RuCTF.

27 June 2009 in TRTU were the first in the South of Russia competitions of this kind — UfoCTF 2009. Took part 4 teams. One of them was me. :)
Official website UfoCTF.

the CTF abroad:

There is in CTF play for a long time. At Defcon, the world's largest hacker Convention, held every year in Las Vegas, CTF is one of the favorite parts.
For example, Defcon Quals 2009 — remote a game that lasts two days. In fact it is a qualifying round, the result of which is taken 9 teams from all over the world who travel to Las Vegas at the onsite tour. The lucky ones will visit Defcon'e!
the Official website of Defcon CTF.

It is also very popular C. I. P. H. E. R and UCSB iCTF. They can participate only students and graduates :) the Competition is held remotely on the Internet.

Official website of the C. I. P. H. E. R.
Official website of UCSB iCTF

Now as our participating in international online competitions-for example, two teams — SiBears and HackerDom:
Both teams participate in the UCSB iCTF, C. I. P. H. E. R. and DEFCON.

the Results:

2007, C. I. P. H. E. R.(3) — HackerDom 12/26 place.
2008, C. I. P. H. E. R.(4) — 1/31 HackerDom place. SiBears — 21/31.
2009, C. I. P. H. E. R.(5) — HackerDom 2/34 place. SiBears — 5/34 place.
2006 UCSB iCTF — HackerDom 19/25
2007 UCSB iCTF — HackerDom 3/36, SiBears — 10/36.
2008 UCSB iCTF — Sibears 2/39 Progress, HackerDom — 4/39.
2008 DEFCON — HackerDom 24/372
2009 DEFCON — 50/224 HackerDom, SiBears 55/224

In addition to these two teams in the contest, plenty of teams with Russia. For example, C. I. P. H. E. R.(5) of the 33 teams of 12 Russian. Soon it will become a Russian competition. :)

the Summarizing, can only say that damn glad that CTF in Russia is, and what he develops! And a damn nice part in all this!

PS: This is my first post here, besides blogging has never worked, so I would like to hear objective comments, to further pull the error from post to post. Further questions on the topic are welcome. :)
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru

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