The qualifying stage of the
international competition for the protection of information, PHDays CTF Quals,
has been completed. Over a period of two days, 72 teams from 17 countries fought
unremittingly for the right to reach the final and to attend the main
competition in May 2012.
First place in the CTF Quals
was the team rdot.org from St. Petersburg, who maintained a leading position throughout the game.
The most active were Russian hackers, who were in the majority of the
contestant teams.They were followed by the United States and
France. The competition was also attended by experts from such countries as
Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Tunisia, Germany, Switzerland, Kenya,
Canada, Peru, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Lebanon, Australia and Spain.
The contest for second and
third place was between eindbazen of the Netherlands and leetmore of St. Petersburg. Several times the teams
changed places and the tension was unrelenting to the very end of the
competition, when in the last half hour a winner emerged –the Dutch hackers
just four points ahead of leetmore.
The remaining teams in the top
five were int3pids from Spain (4th) and Russian HackerDom (5th place). For the first half of the game the
Spanish team was seriously lagging behind the leaders, but then was able to
solve a series of complex tasks and have a high score at the finish. This late
breakthrough determined their fate - int3pids and HackerDom joined the rest of the winners.
The fifth place was also
seriously contended by 0daysober from France, trailing HackerDom by just half a point in the last-minute
struggle. Nevertheless, we are showing out appreciation for the activity and
perseverance of 0daysober by inviting them to the main competition in 2012!
We would like to mention Antichat Team, [censored], ufologist, Shine (Russia), Big-daddy, ensib (France),
MachoMan (South Korea), Nullarea Tunisian Team (Tunisia) and takeshix
(Germany), which, although they won no prizes, steadfastly fought for victory
and helped make the game dynamic and exciting.
We would like to remind you
that PHDyas CTF Quals affects different areas of information security:
assessment of security, search for and exploitation of weak points, reverse
engineering, etc. In the qualifying stage, the gaming infrastructure PHDyas CTF
2011 was much used, as many of the participants’ tasks in this face-to-face
competition were not solved.
Dmitrii Evteev, PHDays CTF
Overlord: “I would like to thank everyone who participated in CTF Quals, - the
competition became really nail-biting and exciting. However, the winners of the
CTF Quals are not the only main participants in CTF. A number of team leaders
of Russian and international ranking are invited hors concours. So, all in all, the full-time competition will
involve 12 teams."
View the full rating
qualifying events here: http://phdays.com/ctf_quals_rating.asp
Stay tuned!
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