| Capture The Flag competition at HITB2007 |
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| Tuesday, 13 February 2007 | ||||
 Hack In The Box announced a Capture the Flag ('CTF') hacking competition with cash prizes that will take place in Sheraton Creek Hotel, Dubai from 4th - 5th April 2007 . This is the second CTF to be held in the Middle East after HITBSecConf2005, which was run in Bahrain. This CTF game is an attack only version of the popular competition held once a year in Kuala Lumpur: several teams of three players will challenge each others in launching penetrative attacks against pre-configured servers and target machines.According to the official website , “Each machine is configured with various services (some of which may be vulnerable while others might not be). Participants are required to retrieve pre-configured files or ‘flags’ from the target machine in order to score points. Attendees are not bared from attacking each other however any participant found using denial of service attacks will be removed from the game immediately.” These servers reproduce a digital environment which is as close as possible to the real one but each application contains both known vulnerabilities and specifically designed breaches. Players are allowed to use any kind of technique to hit the target and get as many flags as possible, but hard limitations are imposed to the participants in order to prevent them from subverting each others: no flooding of network, no DOS attacks are admitted and , as highlighted in the official website : “ NO harassment of other opponents (verbal abuse, etc), NO physical attack, NO attacking of Score Servers” will be tolerated. The team that during the two day-race will collect the highest number of flags, will be the winner and get the prize amounting to $3000., whereas $2000 will go to the second place and $1000 to the third place. The main objective of the CTF competition is to create an occasion for experts in hacking techniques to show their abilities and the legal application of such skills. Moreover, as declared by Meling Mudin, lead organiser of the CTF competition and a core member of the HITB team :” it allows information security practitioners the opportunity to showcase their security research capabilities and skills to the rest of the world." 'This is evident by the number of serious independent security consultants, security research and development companies, and security consulting companies which routinely send their best guys to participate in the Malaysian competition', he added. The race will take place during HITBSecConf2007, that will start in April, 2nd.
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