MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2014



Security Capture the Flag Hands-On Lecture

Steven Valdez

Jan/12 Sun 12:00PM-08:00PM 26-152

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/08
Prereq: programming experience

A combined security CTF and lecture.  As part of the CTF, you'll have the
opportunity to try patching and exploiting some vulnerable services,
and attacking other teams in order to get and protect flags, that will
be automatically scored. After each round, there will be a
mini-lecture, where we will go over how you could find the
vulnerability, and how you could patch it. This is an opportunity to
get a little more familiar with the sorts of strategies used in CTF
competitions, and to get accustomed to the team structure of CTF
competitions, as well as improving understanding of security
vulnerabilities in various kinds of services, from web applications to
python servers.

Please register at http://tinyurl.com/iapctf so that we can get a rough idea of how many people will be attending.

Sponsored by Lincoln Laboratory.

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Steven Valdez, iap-2014-ctf@mit.edu