DefCon creator and organizer Jeff Moss (aka Dark Tangent) put out a call for proposals in late January looking for a group to design, organize and run this year's Capture the Flag (CTF) event at ...

If endurance, skill, and strategy were the only classifications required for an activity to be considered sport, competitive hacking could be the newest "sport" gaining popularity. With Capture the ...

This past weekend was the return of the wildly popular Defcon Capture the Flag qualifiers. "Quals," the commonly used nickname, is an entire weekend of non-stop online security challenges that test ...

Earlier this month, Annapolis-based SIXGEN brought home the win from Las Vegas, as a team made up of members from the cybersecurity company won a competition at the DEFCON 27 hacking conference. The ...

Its a question that the organizers of the annual Social Engineering Capture the Flag (CTF) contest at DEFCON will try to answer. In a break from recent years, the third annual DEFCON Social ...

A team of computer science and engineering graduate students placed fifth worldwide and first in the U.S. in the DEFCON AutoDriving Capture the Flag (CTF) competition organized by Baidu. Over 90 teams ...

Kenshoto held qualifiers for the DefCon‘s Capture the Flag competition last weekend. The top seven finishers: Routards, Pandas with Gambas, Guard@MyLan0, Shellphish, Taekwon-V, WOWHACKER, PLUS, and ...

Members of the winning team 1@stPlace after 2 day marathon At this years CTF (Capture the Flag) competition at DEFCON 2006, elite programmers and security penetration experts duke it out in a grueling ...

Kenshoto, organizer of the official Defcon Capture the Flag contest for the last four years, has stepped down from the position, and thus Defcon is looking for a new organizer for the event. If you’re ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foreground Security today announced that three of its Security Analysts have qualified for the Capture the Flag (CTF) contest at DEFCON 18, from July 30 – August 1, ...

Ruben Santamarta sauntered into our Las Vegas hotel suite looking more like a sleep-deprived 32-year-old than a highly-regarded international security researcher. He’s not thrilled with the culture in ...