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Description

The UCSB International Capture The Flag (also known as the iCTF) is a distributed, wide-area security exercise, whose goal is to test the security skills of the participants from both the attack and defense viewpoints.

During the iCTF, a number of teams compete independently against each other. We provide each team with an indentical copy of a virtualized network installation (for example, a Linux host). The host includes a number of programs and network services, which we developed and in which we intentionally introduced a number of vulnerabilities. The task of each team, then, is to find the vulnerabilities, fix them without disrupting the normal operations of the programs, and leverage their knowledge about the vulnerabilities to compromise the servers run by other teams.

The ICTF is organized by Giovanni Vigna and the Computer Security Group at UCSB. Refer to Giovanni Vigna's iCTF webpage for more information about the history, participation requirements, and rules of the iCTF.

2007

• Theme: Music And Film Industry Association
• Participants: 36 teams
• Game: 7 services, 21 challenges
• Ranking:
  1. Chocolate Makers (Università degli studi di Milano, Italia)
  2. Squareroots (University of Mannheim, Germania)
  3. HackerDom (Ural State University, Russia)
• More info...

2006

• Theme: HillBilly Bank
• Participants: 25 teams
• Game: 8 services, 10 quests
• Ranking:
  1. We_0wn_Y0u (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
  2. Wizards Of DoS (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germania)
  3. WCSC (University of South Florida, Tampa, Forida, USA)
• More info...

2005

• Theme: SPAM
• Participants: 22 teams
• Game: 13 services
• Ranking:
  1. 0ld Eur0pe (RWTH Aachen University, Germania)
  2. We_0wn_Y0u (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
  3. Wizards of DoS (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germania)

Press

The iCTF has been covered by the media. Here are he references to some of the articles, videos, and radio programs that covered the topic.

• M. Kettmann, UCSB Hosts Largest Computer Hacking Competition Ever, Santa Barbara Independent, December 8, 2007