Security Research Group @ CMU

The CSAW Application Security Challenge is a cyber attack competition loosely based on the DefCon Capture the Flag Prequals. Participants will be given a series of challenges divided into different categories, each worth a specified number of points. This year, the competition will focus equally on Web Application security, Reversing and Exploitation. Make sure you are a jack-of-all-trades or put together a team with a diverse skill set.

We have participated CSAW 2009, which was hosted by NYU-Poly, past two days.

We ranked 1st and 2nd.

Since the regulation said that we are allowed to have only 4 people per group, we split our group into two: Undergrad team (ppop) and Grad team (CMU).

Both teams did excellent job in the competition.

Following is a final result of scoreboard *before* bonus points have been awarded:

http://pwning.net/csaw2009

Following is a final result of scoreboard after bonus points have been awarded:

http://pwning.net/csaw2009-final

It was really fun and interesting
We thank NYU-Poly for preparing awesome challenges!
Also, check out following press release!
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091013006038&newsLang=en

*PPOP will be flown to NYC for a final round of CTF and award ceremony!!*