SEC-T 2008

The SEC-T Challenge: Updated!

Due to insufficient number of registered players in this years planned challenge the organisers have chosen to postpone the full challenge until next year. There will however be a more lightweight challenge that everyone interested will be able to play. The rules and goals of the new slim challenge will be made public on the opening day of the conference. Remember to bring your laptop and happy hacking!

The planned Challenge: Postponed!

The SEC-T organizers are proud to present the first annual SEC-T Challenge, to be held during the SEC-T conference.
This challenge will be played out as an on-site competition during the SEC-T conference but will be rather different from traditional CTF competitions and RCE challenges. A summary of features follows:

No legacy OS or App vulnerabilities
The challenge does not depend on your experience with existing vulnerabilities in applications or obscure versions of operating systems.

The central theme of the challenge is games
Simple 2-party deterministic games are the only services running on the challenge network.

Many different ways to "win"
Strategies range from defense, through game theory and reverse engineering, to exploit development and attack on services.

Several different OS and programming environments
Teams will be provided with OS images pre-installed with numerous languages and runtimes.

Realtime scoreboard and score-bot
The score-bot plays against pre-installed game services on the team's challenge machines. Win a game and gain a point, loose a game and loose a point. Teams can create bots that play against other team's game services (and/or write their own improved game service) while the scoreboard immediately shows the outcome.

Rate limited network
There will be a limit on the number of concurrent connections and bandwidth available to each team, to prevent/punish flooding strategies.

Please send your 1-5 person team name to challenge@sec-t.org as soon as possible. There will only be a certain number of teams participating.

The full details of the challenge will be made available to the participants a few days before the conference starts.