CTF Time 2014
Position | IRL Pos’n | Team | Points | Events |
1028 | 1 | Packet_Monkeys | 8.176 |
CTF Time 2015
Position | IRL Pos’n | Team | Points | Events |
644 | 1 | FireBreathingDublinDuckies | 12.869 | |
3805 | 2 | Packet_Monkeys | 1.010 |
CTF Time 2016
Position | IRL Pos’n | Team | Points | Events |
2605 | 1 | spid3rs | 2.927 | |
3003 | 2 | Bitbucket | 2.495 | |
4901 | 3 | ZeroDaysCTF | 1.118 | |
8938 | 4 | Kerfuffle | 0.152 | |
9529 | 5 | LizardSquid | 0.096 | |
12527 | 6 | Hostbusters | 0.000 |
CTF Time 2017
Position | IRL Pos’n | Team | Points | Events |
544 | 1 | HakureiSec | 22.714 | 2 |
910 | 2 | PineapplePizza | 15.325 | 5 |
1101 | 3 | Trinity CTF | 13.197 | 10 |
1589 | 4 | Pineapple Pizza | 7.480 | 4 |
3530 | 5 | 0DaysSober | 2.001 | 1 |
4216 | 6 | ITBHackerSec | 1.407 | 1 |
6998 | 7 | LizardSquid | 0.354 | 1 |
CTF Time 2018
Worldwide Pos | Ireland Pos | Name | Points | Events |
2135 | 1 | TrinityCTF | 8.453 | 4 |
3228 | 2 | Raptorz | 5.018 | 1 |
5853 | 3 | DemonDance | 2.031 | 2 |
7710 | 4 | Quantum Leap | 1.195 | 3 |
10575 | 5 | potatos | 0.626 | 1 |
13965 | 6 | irish_3l!te | 0.229 | 1 |
15270 | 7 | Team Harambe | 0.142 | 1 |
CTF Time 2019
Wordwide Pos | Ireland Pos | Name | Points | Events |
779 | 1 | WFTC | 33.264 | 8 |
2946 | 2 | Pineapple Pizza | 8.011 | 1 |
3309 | 3 | echo $man | 6.912 | 1 |
4882 | 4 | Raptorz | 4.097 | 1 |
8330 | 5 | ZeroDaysFun | 1.772 | 1 |
18320 | 6 | potatos | 0.237 | 1 |
Report
There has been a different Irish Team ranked top in Ireland since 2014. Packet_Monkeys in 2014, FireBreathingDublinDuckies in 2015, spid3rs in 2016, HakureiSec in 2017, TrinityCTF in 2018, and WFTC in 2019.
The Highest Worldwide Position ever by an Irish Team in the End-of-Year Rankings is 554 for HakureiSec in 2017 with 22.714 Points. The Highest Overall Total was WFTC in 2019, with 33.264 Points.
About
Capture the Flag is Information Security Competitions, a kind of Sport for Computer Combat.
There are three common types of CTF Competitions: Jeopardy, Attack-Defense, and Mixed.
Jeopardy Competitions have a number of Tasks (questions) such as Web, Forensic, Crypto or Binary. Teams gain points for completed tasks, the harder the task, the more points.
Attack-Defense is another scenario, whereby teams have their own network (or only one host) with vulnerable services. Teams have a time limit for developing services and developing exploits. Then the organisers connect the competitors and the Wargame starts. Points are gained for Defense (protecting own services) and Attack (hacking opponents services).
Mixed employ both Jeopardy and Attack-Defense scenarios.
Capture the Flag games touch on a number of different aspects of information security, such as Cryptography, Stego, Binary Analysis, Reverse Engineering and Mobile Security.
References
Websites
[1] CTF Time (2017) Ireland 2014 [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/stats/2014/IE [Accessed 13 November 2017]
[2] CTF Time (2017) Ireland 2015 [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/stats/2015/IE [Accessed 13 November 2017]
[3] CTF Time (2017) Ireland 2016 [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/stats/2016/IE [Accessed 13 November 2017]
[4] CTF Time (2017) Ireland 2017 [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/stats/2017/IE [Accessed 13 November 2017]
[5] CTF Time (2017) Ireland 2018 [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/stats/2018/IE [Accessed 9 March 2020]
[6] CTF Time (2017) Ireland 2019 [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/stats/2019/IE [Accessed 9 March 2020]
[7] CTF Time (2017) What is CTF? [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/ctf-wtf/ [Accessed 9 March 2020]
Images
[8] CTF Time (2017) CTF Time Logo [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/static/images/CTFTIME-flat-logo-true.png [Accessed 28 November 2017]
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Eoin O’Fearghaill, Grant Farrell & John Morahan.
About this document
Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the
Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive
Last Updated: 18 January 2019
(c) Copyright Enda Mulcahy and Eirball 2019
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