New CTF Design Underway

gerry — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:39:04 +0000

For many years I have competed in and ran multiple computer security competitions on the east coast. From being a competitor and team captain in The National Cyber Defense Competition, to winning Hack-or-Halo at Shmoocon, and also running the Information Security Talent Search and designing the CTF for the Rochester Security Summit, I’ve gotten to see a lot of great competitors and different challenges.

This week I have began to design a brand new CTF/Security competition that could possibly be played online from remote locations and in person. This new CTF will include things like:

Social Engineering
Reverse Engineering
Malware analysis
System Security
Network Security
Cryptography
Intrusion Detection
Exploit writing

The idea behind this is to take the experiences I’ve had from various competition and turn them all into one big comprehensive security competition that touches a bit on every aspect of security.

Who knows, maybe this will span out and end up being a regular competition in the DC area.

Welcome back!

gerry — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:56:51 +0000

w00t!

The past couple of months have been crazy, hence the lack of updates. But I have finished all of my classwork for my masters from RIT and am operational again.

The machine that was hosting mstaint before has been decommissioned and the website is now on a brand spankin new box out in the cloud. No more having to worry about it getting unplugged by accident.

Updates to come soon!

mstaint.com

New CTF Design Underway

Welcome back!