HITB’s Capture The Flag is a team-based 'live hacking' challenge that pits teams of 3 in a head-to-head grueling 32-hour battle where up and coming talents are unearthed and teams get a chance to not only prove their skills amongst their peers but claim bragging rights of competing in one of the most grueling network security 'games' around.
The latest expansion of the CTF - Fallout Apocalypse - will see teams attacking rivals’ ‘nuclear power plants’ while at the same time defending their own from incoming attacks. Teams will own and manage a ‘nuclear power plant’ which consists of seven reactor cores. Each reactor core represents a custom vulnerable service which generates ‘money’ from the production of nuclear energy. Teams will need to hack into their rivals' nuclear ‘facility’
Fallout Apocalypse will also feature a ‘black market’ where teams can auction off exploits to the highest bidder and also purchase upgrades made available from the CTF Crew.
“We are really looking forward to seeing the creative attacks and strategies from teams and also the alliances which will be formed and broken. It’s like watching a game of Risk, but with real-world hacking involved!”, said Amin “RuFI0” Hamid, HITB CTF Overlord 2.0 and CEO of StrykeLabs, the main organizers of this year’s competition.
"This is also the first time we’re collaborating with the previous and current HITB CTF crews and we’re excited to be working with them in putting together an amazing game", he added.
Spanning across 2 days and held in an open-to-public area, the competition kicks off at 10.30 MYT on the 10th of October at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur and ends at 17.30 MYT on the 11th of October.
Fallout Apocalypse is organized by StrykeLabs and sponsored by Trustwave Spiderlabs. A further USD3133.7 cash prize for the first place team has been provided by Panda Security with custom collectible biatch&dawg hoodies and t-shirts as prizes for the second and third place winners.
For more information on HITBSecConf2012 – Malaysia and the Capture The Flag competition, please visit: http://conference.hitb.org/