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DefCon CTF Organizers Chosen

DefCon creator and organizer Jeff Moss (aka Dark Tangent) put out a call for proposals in late January looking for a group to design, organize and run this year's Capture the Flag (CTF) event at ...
Technical

Annapolis’ SIXGEN grabbed the win at DEFCON 27’s Capture the Flag

Earlier this month, Annapolis-based SIXGEN brought home the win from Las Vegas, as a team made up of members from the cybersecurity company won a competition at the DEFCON 27 hacking conference. The ...
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Forget ‘Brogrammers,’ Women Have The Edge In DEFCON Social Engineering Contest

Its a question that the organizers of the annual Social Engineering Capture the Flag (CTF) contest at DEFCON will try to answer. In a break from recent years, the third annual DEFCON Social ...
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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 ...
Dark Reading

7 Lessons Learned From Designing a DEF CON CTF

Capture-the-flag (CTF) events are both fun and educational, providing cybersecurity professionals with a way to flex their hacking skills while learning new concepts in a constructive and safe ...