DIMVA 2011 to Feature 1-day Capture The Flag Competition
The annual DIMVA conference serves as a premier forum for advancing the state of the art in intrusion detection, malware detection, and vulnerability assessment. Each year DIMVA brings together international experts from academia, industry and government to present and discuss novel research in these areas. DIMVA is organized by the special interest group Security - Intrusion Detection and Response (SIDAR) of the German Informatics Society (GI). The conference proceedings will appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
The Capture the Flag (CTF) competition is a hacking-oriented contest in which participants express their creativity and outside-the-box hacker-thinking attitude in facing a set of security-related challenges. Since the beginning, CTF competitions required challengers to show their technical and intellectual skills while defending and attacking the systems of the other contestants. While formats have varied in recent years (e.g., attack-only, treasure hunt, botnet life-cycle), the spirit and the hacker attitude remained the same.
It is with this same spirit that we are eager to announce dCTF 2011, a 1-day Capture the Flag competition co-located with the 2011 edition of DIMVA, the Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment. dCTF will take place on July 7th 2011 and will run approximately from 8:30am GMT+1 DST to 4:30pm GMT+1 DST. Teams can take part to the challenge either remotely or locally. We expect to limit the remote and local number of teams to 30 and 5, respectively.
