GOOGLE CAPTURE THE FLAG COMPETITION

What is CTF ?

"Capture The Flag" (CTF) competitions (in the cybersecurity sense) are not related to running outdoors or playing first-person shooters. Instead, they consist of a set of computer security puzzles (or challenges) involving reverse-engineering, memory corruption, cryptography, web technologies, and more. When players solve them they get a "flag," a secret string which can be exchanged for points. The more points a team earns, the higher up it moves in rank.

CTF runs in two rounds: an online qualification round and an onsite final round. The top 10 teams from the qualification round will be invited to the finals to compete onsite for a prize pool of more than USD $31,337 (tax will be deducted if applicable to the winning team's country). In addition to the grand prizes, some of the best and creative write-ups that we receive during the qualifying round will be rewarded as well.

The qualification round will be started on 22 June and will be finished on 23 June. Registration process will be started shortly and for further details click here .

 

How does it work? : 

1.Once the CTF has started, navigate to the scoreboard (the website will be communicated beforehand)

2.Create a team

3.Invite others to your team (if you like)

4.Solve the challenges presented in the various categories (e.g. Pwnables, Web, Reversing, Cryptography, Misc)

5.At the end of each challenge there is a flag (text token) that usually looks like this "— CTF{SomeTextHere} — " enter it next to the challenge on the Google CTF Website to score points!!!

How can I get a team for the Google CTF? : 

As this is a team event so try to make a team with your friend , colleague. 

You can also play single for the 'Beginner's Quest' but you can't qualify for the finals.BUT: GOOGLE will pick 10 players from the Beginner’s Quest at random and invite them to observe the Google CTF Finals in the audience. How? There will be a pop-up after a certain Beginner’s Quest challenge (which challenge it is, is a secret). The pop-up will instruct you how to submit your details to enter the draw.

You can also join local CTF teams.

List of teams Teams .

Not all teams are looking for new members but One of the CTF teams that is always looking for new members is the OpenToAllTeam .

The location at which the final will be held will be communicated with the  10 final teams. And if needed we can issue a visa letter for the four participants of each of the 10 finalist teams. 

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