UofTCTF 2024 is the UofTCTF team's annual competition. The competition will run from January 13, 2024 at 12:00 PM EST until January 14, 2024 at 11:59 PM EST. The CTF will be held online.
In-Person Component
There will be an in-person event on January 13, 2024 from 9:45 AM to 7:00 PM, at BA1130 (Bahen Centre for Information Technology). There will be talks given by 2 cybersecurity professionals in the morning. Lunch will be served.
Prizes
All prize values are listed in CAD.- First Place: $250, 1 month VIP @ LetsDefend.io (all members)
- Second Place: $150, 1 month VIP @ LetsDefend.io (all members)
- Third Place: $100, 1 month VIP @ LetsDefend.io (all members)
- Best 5 Writeups: $40
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is a CTF?
- Is a CTF a hackathon?
- Who can participate?
- What benefits will I gain from participating?
- What kind of challenge categories are in a CTF?
- How do I prepare for a CTF?
- What is dynamic scoring?
- Can I participate alone or do I need a team?
Capture the Flag (CTF) in computer security is an exercise in which participants attempt to find text strings, called “flags”, which are secretly hidden in purposefully-vulnerable programs or websites. (From Wikipedia)
No, it is not. A CTF and hackathon differ in their primary objectives. CTFs are centred around cybersecurity challenges where participants aim to find and/or exploit vulnerabilities in intentionally vulnerable systems.
Anyone interested in cybersecurity, regardless of skill level. The event caters to beginners, intermediate, and advanced participants.
CTFs improves technical skills across various cybersecurity domains, fosters teamwork and networking opportunities within the cybersecurity community, and enhances problem-solving abilities through challenging scenarios. This experience can boost resumes, peak an interest in a different career opportunity, and provide a fun yet competitive environment for skill development and learning.
Challenges can vary widely, including cryptography, reverse engineering, web exploitation, forensics, and more.
Practice and familiarize yourself with various cybersecurity concepts and tools. Solving challenges on platforms like hackthebox. More information is provided in the following blog post: https://uoftctf.org/learning/.
In many CTFs, challenges have a fixed score that authors set based on difficulty. Dynamic scoring scales the score based on the number of solves -- easier challenges have higher solve counts and a lower score, while harder challenges have lower solves and a higher score. If you solved a challenge and more solves are accumulated, your total score is reduced along with others'.
Both are possible, but competitive participants often tend to be teams. You form a team with up to 3 others, for a maximum team size of 4 participants.
Organizers
University of Toronto Capture the Flag Team, Google Developer Student Club UTM, Mathematical and Computational Sciences Society
Sponsors
Contact
- Email: [email protected]
- Discord: discord.gg/Un7avdkq7Z