Below is news for 2 of Iran's biggest Capture The Flag contests in 2013:
ASIS CTF
2nd Iranian ASIS International Capture The Flag Cyber Security Contest began on 29 August 2013 for 48 hours. 436 teams from all over world took part in contest testing:
General security information (trivia)
Web hacking
Cryptography protocols and implementations
Security of software systems
Digital forensics
Reverse engineering
Steganography
Misc
Winners have been announced and Germany team StratumAuhuur won place 1. Top Iranian team were
DSST.Ir in place 16.
Full list of registered teams is here:
http://asis-ctf.ir/en/challengers
Sharif University CTF
The fourth annual Sharif CTF competition will be held on October 2rd, 2013, 14:00 IRST and will run for 24 hours. Similar to the past events, the competition will be held in two rounds and all interested parties are encouraged to participate. Each team could have a maximum of three members. One of the team members should represent the team as the team leader and all communications with respect to the CTF will be through the team leader.
CTF questions will be from the following areas:
-trivia
-web attack
-steganography
-cryptography
-forensics
-secure coding
-reverse engineering
-exploiting
The competition will be held in two stages. In the first stage all teams will compete in a 24 hour online competition in order to qualify for the final round. Team rankings will be available online through the competition and to all players.
Final rankings will be announced a few days after the online competition and the top 20 teams will be invited to participate in the final round to be held at the Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology on Monday November 18th, 2013, 10:00 IRST for 8 hours. Team rankings will be withheld in the last hour of the final competition and winners will be announced in the closing ceremony on Wednesday, November 20th, 2013, 16:00 IRST.
In addition to receiving certificate of attendance, top three teams will receive:
First Team: 30 Million Rials
Second Team: 20 Million Rials
Third Team: 10 Million Rials
Important dates
| Registration deadline: | Friday, September 13th, 2013 |
| Online qualifier: | Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013 (14:00 IRDT, duration 24 hours) |
Sharif University Capture The Flag official website is here:
http://cert.sharif.edu/ctf/en
