{"id":199522,"date":"2017-02-20T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=199522"},"modified":"2017-02-21T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T10:31:11","slug":"hacking-capture-the-flag-event-coming-to-rage-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/199522-hacking-capture-the-flag-event-coming-to-rage-2017.html","title":{"rendered":"Hacking capture-the-flag event coming to rAge 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hacking competition for the\u00a0rAge Johannesburg event in October is on the cards.<\/p>\n<p>The hacking event&#8217;s organiser, Errol Enslin, said rAge has partnered with them to\u00a0establish the\u00a0competition for hackers.<\/p>\n<p>Enslin said they are assessing what interest\u00a0there is for such a competition, which will determine the type of capture-the-flag (CTF) events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jeopardy-style CTF:<\/strong>\u00a0Teams complete tasks\u00a0in range of categories, such as web, forensic, crypto, and binary. Points are awarded for solving tasks, with complex tasks worth more points. Once a task is complete, the team may progress to the next one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Attack-Defence:<\/strong>\u00a0Teams must defend their vulnerable\u00a0host, or hosts, while attacking the other team.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mixed competitions:<\/strong>\u00a0A combination of task-based and versus competitions, with a weighted total score determining the winner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;CTF games often touch on many other aspects of information security: cryptography, steganography, binary analysis, reverse engineering, mobile security, and others,&#8221; said Enslin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will set up a decent prize, so competing will be worth it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the competition will give\u00a0South African hackers a way to measure their skill and will help grow the local community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hackathons are a good way for the administrators to witness what [hackers] are facing day to day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It will also give corporate security employees a tool to test their\u00a0abilities within a controlled environment, he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/197399-hacker-takes-down-20-of-the-dark-web.html\">Hacker takes down 20% of the Dark Web<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SecureConekt is organising a hacking competition for the rAge Johannesburg event in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":176973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[41448,14695,41446],"class_list":["post-199522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-capture-the-flag-ctf","tag-hackathon","tag-rage-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199540,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199522\/revisions\/199540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}