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Re: capture the flag (hacking games)
From: unixadmin99 <unixadmin99 () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:30:46 +0000
On 04/02/06, donita espinoza <the_d_student () yahoo com au> wrote:
Hi.. I heard about hacking competition games in my town, and its about 'capture the flag'. I really new to this stuff. and the prize for the winner is accer laptop, i know nothing about 'capture the flag', do anyone of you mind to explain about this game ? I think its a good event (with a good prize) so i have a plan to join this event, and i hope i'll get good advices from you all.. sorry for my english, thank you very much nita From Wikipedia, the FREE online Encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_Flag [quote] In computer security, capture the flag (CTF) is an information warfare game. Each team is given a machine (or small network) to defend on an isolated network. Teams are scored on both their success in defending their assigned machine and on their success in attacking other team's machines. Depending on the nature of the particular CTF game, teams may either be attempting to take an opponent's flag from their machine or teams may be attempting to plant their own flag on their opponent's machine. CTF was popularized by the hacker conference DEF CON. CTF is often used as an educational exercise to give participants experience in securing a machine, as well as in conducting and reacting to real attacks using commonly available tools, in order to demonstrate the level of effectiveness of their chosen defensive strategies and tools. An international, academic CTF has been hosted twice by University of California, Santa Barbara. The winner of 2005 edition was the team from the Politecnico di Milano university in Italy. [/quote] -- ~michael --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EARN A MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION ASSURANCE - ONLINE The Norwich University program offers unparalleled Infosec management education and the case study affords you unmatched consulting experience. Tailor your education to your own professional goals with degree customizations including Emergency Management, Business Continuity Planning, Computer Emergency Response Teams, and Digital Investigations. http://www.msia.norwich.edu/secfocus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- capture the flag (hacking games) donita espinoza (Feb 06)
- Re: capture the flag (hacking games) List Spam (Feb 06)
- RE: capture the flag (hacking games) David Gillett (Feb 08)
- Re: capture the flag (hacking games) Robert Bauer (Feb 10)
- Re: capture the flag (hacking games) Harrison Holland (Feb 13)
- Re: capture the flag (hacking games) List Spam (Feb 13)
- Re: capture the flag (hacking games) Albert Gonzalez (Feb 13)
- Re: capture the flag (hacking games) FocusHacks (Feb 13)
- Re: capture the flag (hacking games) unixadmin99 (Feb 07)
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