{"id":39,"date":"2016-04-11T11:15:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T11:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securit.ie\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2016-04-13T08:19:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T08:19:56","slug":"zero-days-ctf-dublin-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securit.ie\/blog\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Zero Days CTF – Dublin 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended the second ever Zero Days CTF<\/a> (capture the flag) event recently. It was setup and organised by\u00a0lecturers in the Institute of Technology, \u00a0Blanchardstown<\/a>\u00a0who run the\u00a0Cyber Security and Digital Forensics course. The event was also sponsored by Amazon, Integrity360 and Rits Information Security.\u00a0ITB is home to one of the few 3rd level security courses available in Ireland. The event was primarily aimed at students and is, as of now, the biggest event of its kind to be ran in Ireland as far as I’m aware, with almost 40 teams of 4 taking part.<\/p>\n

As someone who follows CTF TIME<\/a>\u00a0quite regularly, I’ve done quite a few challenges from the top level Capture the Flag events around the world, the competition\u00a0is high and the standard is difficult for the majority of these events. I often recommend that people check them out or follow the github of CTF write-ups<\/a> as a means of learning some cool new shit.<\/p>\n

It was however nice to see that the difficulty of the challenges in the Zero Days CTF were adjusted to make it more\u00a0fair for participants of all levels. They did however seemingly have\u00a0an increased level of difficulty on the challenges I had seen from the\u00a02015 event which is a positive\u00a0thing for all involved. There were also a number of\u00a0teams of professionals already working in the industry taking part. I would have loved to have events such as this\u00a0back when I was a student, it serves to point newcomers in\u00a0the security world\u00a0towards some very interesting areas and certainly provides\u00a0extra opportunities to put some of\u00a0your information security knowledge, theory and techniques into practice.<\/p>\n

\"Final<\/a>

Final Scores<\/p><\/div>\n

Our winning team ‘popret<\/strong>‘ was composed of Conor Quigley, Denis Isakov,\u00a0Serge\u00a0Bazanski and myself (Ciaran McNally). We are all currently working in the security industry in Dublin and\u00a0are fond of a challenge. We put into action some good team and collaboration techniques that helped us knock off many of the challenges early before anyone else managed to solve them, ensuring we maximized our points. We used IRC\u00a0and also a shared paste-pad to\u00a0help speed up our solutions by documenting any work done so far and to make sure we weren’t\u00a0simultaneously working on the same challenges.<\/p>\n

\"popret\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We were awarded some 7″ Android Tablets for our effort!\u00a0I’d like to thank all who put the work in to set up such a fun event and also encourage people to attend events\u00a0like this into the future as it’s fundamental to growing the quite small Irish information security community. \u00a0Events like this are excellent networking opportunities and are a good place to spot\u00a0tech talent fresh\u00a0out of college. Hopefully we see plenty more of these events into the future…<\/p>\n

Hack the Planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I attended the second ever Zero Days CTF (capture the flag) event recently. It was setup and organised by\u00a0lecturers in the Institute of Technology, \u00a0Blanchardstown\u00a0who run the\u00a0Cyber Security and Digital Forensics course. The event was also sponsored by… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[21,25,17,24,22,29,20,2,26,27,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securit.ie\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securit.ie\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securit.ie\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securit.ie\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securit.ie\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/securit.ie\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/securit.ie\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securit.ie\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securit.ie\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securit.ie\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}