The UCSB Capture The Flag is a distributed, wide-area security exercise, whose goal is to test the security skills of students from both the attack and defense viewpoints.
The CTF evolved from four previous security "live exercises" that were carried out locally at UCSB.
The next CTF will be held in December 2004 and will involve teams from Universities around the world. Stay tuned for the details.
On December 5th, 2003, fourteen teams from around the United States competed in a game in the UCSB Capture the Flag by attempting to compromise other teams' network services while trying to protect their own services from attacks. The contest included teams from the following schools:
Each team's goals were to:
The Capture The Flag exercise was a great success, thanks to students and faculty at each of the participating sites. The results can be found here.
The was some local press coverage too (actually the CTF got the first page).
A blurb describing the CTF in layman terms can be found here.
The Capture The Flag (CTF) is organized by Giovanni Vigna, at UCSB.
This is the contact information:
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A number of students at UCSB are involved in helping setting up this exercise. You may want to contact them on particular issues or in case the main point of contact is not available.