Results in for UCSB Capture the Flag Contest

Thorsten Holz writes "A few hours ago, the UCSB International Capture The Flag (CTF) contest ended. The CTF contest is a multi-site, multi-team hacking contest in which a number of teams compete independently against each other. It is the biggest contest worldwide and different from the DEFCON CTF because it involves nine educational institutions spread worlwide. Our team (called '0ld Eur0pe') managed to get second place, although our VMware image was 'rm -rf'ed during the contest! The final scoreboard shows the result and some impressions can be found at our homepage." Update: 06/12 00:17 GMT by T : Thanks to reader Bob MacSlack, who spotted my goof and corrects it thus: "The article incorrectly attributes the contest to UC Berkeley. UCSB is actually UC Santa Barbara."

UCSB

[NitsujTPU]

This contest looks like fun.

Please give the appropriate institution credit. UCSB is UC Santa Barbara.

What about root-fu

[Jukashi]

I remember all sorts of cute graphics and flyers about root-fu (THE BICOASTAL HACKER COMPETITION - OOH!), then as far as I can tell it never even happened. Maybe this one will actually occur.

Re:What about root-fu

[th0mas.sixbit.org]

you didn't even RTF'ing news post, because if you did, you'd have noticed that the contest is already over and scored. So yeah, it actually occured.

S?

[Knightking]

Unless UCSB is short for UniverSity of California at Berkeley and the rearranged the letters for the acronym, I'm not sure how UCSB == Cal.

Where is the Stuff?

[brilinux]

Capture the flag is not Capture the Flag unless it is Capture the Flag with Stuff [cmukgb.org]

Go Gauchos!

[Shadow Wrought]

That is all.

Winning team

[phretor]

The winning team was Tower Of Hanoi @ Politecnico di Milano; have a look to the temporary page of the team: team page [polimi.it]; some pictures [maggi.cc]. Last year's edition have been documented too: CTF2004 [publicshout.org].