Getting Dirty

Other firms sponsor contests at DEFCON as well. Dirtbags is one. The organization hosts CTF style contests around the country that are modeled on the DEFCON CTF...

Put It On the Board

The names that teams choose to represent themselves in the various tournaments at DEFCON say a lot. Here’s a shot of the score board for the Open CTF tournament. My favorite: ADRIAN LMAO, a jab at the now-infamous hacker who is responsible for turning Bradley Manning in to the federal authorities...

Hackers Got "Wired In"

Competition in the CTF contests is intense, with teams of hackers “wired in” as they might say in The Social Network and crowded around tables filled with laptops, cabling, soda, booze and junk food. Age is no obstacle, either, with some of the most skilled and technical hackers unable to legally...

Open Capture the Flag at DEFCON

Capture the Flag: A DEFCON tradition, the annual Capture the Flag CTF competition pits some of the world’s best teams of hackers against each other in an epic struggle for supremacy and bragging rights. This shot is from the Open CTF tournament – an “all comers welcome” alternative to the officia...

quake2-more-bof.txt

Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:48:26 +0100 From: Patrick Oonk To: [email protected] Subject: More Quake2 buffer overflows and nuisances This was forwarded to me by Roderick van Domburg, Quake II admin at GamePoint www.gamepoint.net ----- Forwarded message from Roderick 'GoG' van Domburg ----- From...