RuCTF in english [DEPRECATED]

Good morning! Participants are appearing on the stage, which means it's time for us to start. We remind you that contest starts at 10 a.m., and the network will be opened at 11 a.m. During the lunch (1 p.m. - 2 p.m.) the game will be paused. We wish luck to everyone, and may the strongest win!

We're ready to start!

Conference is finally over! Tomorrow is the RuCTF 2017 finals in Yeltsin Presidential Center (Borisa Yeltsyna 3a, the entrance on the first floor from the conference-center side). We await anyone who wants to come!

Contest starts at 10 a.m., the participants have to come at 9 a.m. The network will be opened in an hour from the start.

If you live in Novotel or Onegin hotels, we are ready to get you to Yeltsin Center. At 8:25 the bus will be waiting for you at Novotel and Sasha will meet you, her number is +79826578104, and at 8:45 this bus will pick the guys from Onegin (at 8:30 Arina will meet you, her number is +79014539372)

Last presentation of this year's conference! Igor Derum from CSR MO is here to talk about simplifying and speeding up work with the main reverse engineering tool, IDA Pro, in his "Tales of IDA Pro hooks and API".

Here are the contest results!

First place: Lebedev Roman, Teamspin (300 points)
Second place: Borzunov Alexandr, Destructive Voice (300 points)
Third place: Kovrizhnykh Alexey, Destructive Voice (300 points)
Besides number of points the time when flags were sent counted.

Full results: http://live.ructf.org/olymp_results.pdf
Results out-of-competition: http://live.ructf.org/olymp_results_not_rated.pdf

Task analysis: http://live.ructf.org/olymp_en.pdf
Task developement repo: https://github.com/HackerDom/ructf-2017-tasks/tree/master/olymp

And now it's time for the next presentation: Sergey Belov from Digital Security is on his way of telling us about "fresh" attacks and vulnerabilities in web applications.

Here is the task analysis for the morning contest!
http://live.ructf.org/olymp_en.pdf
Results are coming pretty soon :)

Do the PenTests look like CTF? Sergey Krasnov from USSC wondered if they are and made a comparison. Right now he's about to tell us about similarities and differences of sports and commercial hacking.

Another presentation from RuCTF 2017 prize fond sponsors -- Kaspersky Lab. Vladimir Daschenko will tell us about fuzzing -- technique of software testing, which consists of passing to the application wrong, unexpected or random data. From this presentation we can learn how to use fuzzing from finding Remode Code Execution vulnerabilities in industrial products

More news! Yesterday team Lights Out successfully hacked the control system of quadcopter. Congrats :)

First presentation for the second day of conference! Dmitry Sklyarov from Positive Technologies is going to talk about Intel Management Engine (ME) — subsystem, which is built-in in all modern computer platforms (desktops, laptops, servers, tablets) with Intel chipsets — and static analysis of Intel ME firmware. Interview with Dmitry and some details here: http://ctfnews.ru/news/413

By the way, about keyboards: in between Keyboard racing and Lock-picking you can play the tune with a friend on two keyboards, each of keyboards having only half of keys.

Also we suggest you to take part in Keyboard racing (next to Demidov hall), being the fastest in coding on chosen programming language.