DEFCON 19 CTF Final. The IV Team took 4th place

recently completed two major hacker conferences: BlackHat 2011 and DEFCON 19, which took place in Vegas.
At the conference, DEFCON, in addition to the reports, held annually the most famous hacker (whitehat) competitions Capture The Flag (CTF). DEFCON is a kind of Alma mater competition.


DEF CON 19
The competition is held in two stages. The first qualifying stage, in which can participate all those who wish. Sectionals are held in the format of "jeopardy" (or "Jeopardy" in English.). The participants are provided with 25-30 tasks of different complexity in the areas of IB as reverse engineering, forensic, binary exploitation, packet analysis, etc. In Russia often this type of competition is called Task-based CTF.
the Midst of a fierce struggle
The second directly finals, which leaves 10-12 best teams. The final will be held in the format of "combat" hacking. Each team is issued a OS image which has several services. The team must protect their services and to attack others. Each service keeps the flags that need to steal when attacking and adequately protected in the protection. Hence the name Capture The Flag.
This year in the qualifying registered more than 700 teams, with non-zero score was completed more than 280.
For the first time in the history of these competitions (and this is the 19th conference in a row) in the finals the Russian team IV. The name is pronounced as "four" or "four" foreigners "envious call us" "AI VI". The name is very simple, the team consists of 4 strongest teams of Russia on CTF: HackerDom, Leet More, SiBears, Smoked Chicken. Ironically, but in qualifying our team took 4th place and reached the final.
our Team
But we decided not to stop and at least the American visa law and knocked down half the team in the final won, guess what? It the 4th place, ahead of many guarding this competition. Our team was ahead of the Buffalo such as Shellphish from the University of Santa Barbara (annually arrange a competition iCTF), PPP from Carnegie-Mellon and Koreans PLUS from POSTECH-Pohang as well as Japanese, Spanish, and American pros in IB.
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PS
Well, perfectly caroused, of course. This is Vegas, baby.
Afterparty
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru

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