Cyber Security Challenge Australia
CySCA 2013
Australia's only national cyber security competition, CySCA, aims to promote ICT security skills and raise awareness of the importance of cyber security in Australia.
CySCA 2013 commenced at 12 noon on Tuesday 7th May 2013 and ran for 24 hours, and the results are in.
Exercise Control has confirmed the final results as follows:
* 5th Place (44 points) - ANU2 (Jarrah Bloomfield, Chanakya Goli, Alexander McGregor-Immig, Caitlin Macleod)
* 7th Place (42 points) - ANU1 (Andrew Donnellan, Andrew Haigh, Jonathan Franzi, Daniel Axtens)
* 15th Place (31 points) - ANU3 (Lewin Hodgman, Nicholas Donaldson, Benjamin Bi, Vince Cheng)
(of 43 teams nationwide, maximum of slightly >100 points)
Andrew Donnellan, Secretary for the ANU Computer Science Students' Association (CSSA) states that is an excellent result for ANU, particularly as ANU2 was the highest ranking team from a University that doesn't run specialist computer security courses. It was also great to see Caitlin and Nic representing the first year cohort.
Particularly noteworthy feats:
* Alex Immig spent far too many hours laboriously untangling obfuscated executable payloads and ended up being one of the apparently few people to get through 5.2
* Lewin Hodgman and team ANU3 did a brilliant job on the Web Application section, being 3rd to capture Flag 1.1, 1st for Flag 1.2 and 3rd for Flag 1.3
* Andrew Haigh spent far too long trying various combinations of Social Engineering Toolkit payloads before stumbling across the one that got ANU1 into the workstation, then trying to figure out how one decrypts a Mozilla password database, scoring us Flag 2.1 (I believe we were the 4th team to get there, and only 10 teams completed it by the end of the challenge)
* Daniel Axtens' work on cracking the VSTP encryption key (which *may* have involved an 8-core Extra-Large Amazon EC2 instance...) made ANU1 one of only 4 teams nationwide to successfully decrypt the intercept for Flag 3.2
So good work everyone!
For more detail on the event and results see ยป cyberchallenge
