Husky Hackathon

Welcome to USM's Husky Hackathon!

Date: TBD

Location: John Mitchell Center, Room 242

About the CTF

Welcome to USM's Capture The Flag (CTF) competition! During this competition, student teams will work together to solve a series of challenges, aiming to discover concealed "flags" indicating vulnerabilities within applications, servers, and software.

Challenge Categories

There will be 5 challenge categories for competitors to compete in.

  1. Networking: Challenges related to exploiting vulnerabilities in computer networks, protocols, or services to gain access or control, or to understand malicious activity.
  2. Cryptography: Challenges involving encryption, decryption, and cryptographic algorithms to test participants' knowledge of secure communication methods.
  3. OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence): Challenges focused on gathering information from publicly available sources to solve puzzles, investigate, or find hidden data.
  4. Password Cracking: Challenges requiring participants to crack password hashes, recover plaintext passwords, or perform password-related attacks like brute force or dictionary attacks.
  5. Reverse Engineering: Challenges that involve identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in software or applications, such as buffer overflows or binary exploitation.

Rules and Guidelines

  1. Teams of 2 are required to participate in this event. You may create your team name on the registration form below -- make it something fun!
  2. There will be computers provided for you, please do not bring your own devices as they will be unable to access the competition environment.
  3. Use of search engines is encouraged! However any form of artificial intelligence is prohibited.
  4. No Unauthorized Access: Do not attempt to access external systems, services, or resources not explicitly given access to.
  5. No Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks: Avoid activities that disrupt services.
  6. No Collaboration Outside of Groups: Work within your team environment. Do not share flags, hints, or solutions with other teams without permission.

In the event of any rule violations, both the individual responsible for the breach and their team will face disqualification from this competition and potentially future competitions.

Tools

You will be provided with both a Windows 10 instance along with a virtual debian-based server instance. Both operating systems may be used to complete all tasks, however you may find that some tasks may be easier in their respective operating systems. Each system will contain a suite of tools you may find useful, however you also may install and utilize whichever tools you'd prefer.

Prizes

The victorious team will be awarded two new Raspberry Pi Pico W's, ideal for a myriad of microcontroller projects! Additionally, each participant will be granted an exclusive Badgr digital certificate, certifying both participation and the winning team.

Winning Award Participation Award

Registration

To register for the Husky Hackathon CTF, fill out the registration form below:

Register Here

We are no longer accepting new registrations.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or need assistance, contact us at:

Email: giovanni.braun@maine.edu