Special Report: HITB2009 CTF Weapons of Mass Destruction

A true 'hacker's conference' wouldn't be fun without a competition where hackers go head to head, tears are shed, and blood is spilled, and when we say blood we mean points. CTFs have always been about how good and fast you are at reversing and exploiting daemons and binaries. Sure it's fun and all but after a few years of the same thing, it's starts to get boring. Hence we decided to come up with CTF - Weapons of Mass Destruction (say it with me, destruktion!!!).

Let's face it, acquiring allies and launching nukes at rival teams is much more fun than just reversing binaries and stealing flags. Strategy is everything! The crew worked hard through out the year, planning the game mechanics, designing the world map, and coming up with complex challenges for the game. Though there were some quirks here and there on game day, miraculously we pulled it off. The nukes weren't the only thing that was different. We also had no prize money for this year's CTF but teams still signed up anyway purely for the bragging rights. You guys are f@#&king awesome!

So without further ado, the CTF crew brings you the writeup for Weapons of Mass Destruction 2009. Enjoy!

https://www.hackinthebox.org/misc/HITB-CTF2009-Special-Report.pdf L33tdawg: This article was originally supposed to be released as part of Issue 001 of the new HITB Ezine but unfortunately did not make it in time for release. As such we've decided to put this out as a 'special release' instead of waiting for Issue 002. Speaking of which, if you'd like to contribute for the next issue, submissions are currently being accepted - for further details kindly email zarulshahrin@hackinthebox.org