SIGMIL Places fourth in iCTF

Posted by Steve Hanna on December 10th, 2005 filed in Technical

SIGMil places 4th in international security exercise.

Urbana, IL December 9, 2005 - The University of Illinois’ Special Interest
Group for Military Applications (SIGMil) placed fourth in the 2005 UCSB
International Capture The Flag security exercise held December 9th. SIGMil
finished as the top ranked team from the United States closely following
teams from Germany and Austria.

The UCSB International Capture The Flag (iCTF) is a distributed, wide-area
security exercise, whose goal is to test the security skills of the
participants from both the attack and defense viewpoints. The Capture the
Flag contest is a multi-site, multi-team hacking contest in which a number
of teams compete independently against each other. This year’s exercise
included over twenty teams from top educational institutions around the
world.

After a grueling six hour spree of security techniques such as buffer
overflows, shell coding, code patches, and network sniffing SIGMil member
uHelp commented, “The effort was hard, the journey long, but in the end our
kung foo prevailed.”

The Special Interest Group for Military Applications (SIGMil) is a
technology research and consulting group headquartered at the University of
Illinois - Urbana Champaign. Among its many activities, SIGMil has a rich
history of computer security research and education. For further
information, contact SIGMil at: press@sigmil.org.