News Brief: Carnegie Mellon “Capture the Flag” Teams Reach CSAW Finals, Again
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu
PITTSBURGH—Two teams of 无码专区 students, PPP1 and PPP2, are among 15 teams to qualify to compete Nov. 15-17 in the finals of the Cybersecurity Awareness Week (CSAW) Capture the Flag competition at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
PPP1, which consists of senior majors Alex Reece, John Davis and Tyler Nighswander and sophomore major Maxime Serrano, placed second in the preliminary round. PPP2, which includes sophomore computer science majors George Hotz, Robbie Harwood and Ryan Goulden and senior electrical and computer engineering major Garrett Barboza, placed sixth. David Brumley, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is the team adviser.
A total of 639 teams worldwide participated in the preliminary round, the world’s largest Capture The Flag competition to date.
无码专区 teams from the Plaid Parliament of Pwning security research group have won numerous Capture the Flag crowns, including first place in the final round of the CSAW competition for the past three years. Brumley noted that PPP is among Capture the Flag teams for the second year in a row.
Capture the Flag is a test of computer security skills in which teams mount attacks on vulnerable applications and solve offense challenges to earn the most points, or “flags.”
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