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DEF CON "Capture the Capture The Flag" Data
pablos writes "Each year DEF CON hosts the famed Capture The Flag contest. Hackers from all over the world duke it out on the network for 72 hours, hacking for the title. The Shmoo Group diligently logs every packet for posterity, we "Capture the Capture The Flag." Now is your chance to download by far the most interesting, 'sploit ridden, 5.8GB of intrusion collusion ever published. Free for the bandwidth endowed, this is the ultimate IDS testbed."
Either voyeurism has reached a new level, or it's just the players and their proud(?) mums downloading this.
Then again, I guess it's not a bad screensaver!
Hmm...my favorite was the sinusoidal IP address spoofing. Anyone else?
"I'll just chip in a bit for RedHat: I actually have that installed on my university machine." - Linus, '95
logging 5.8 GB of packets so u can look thru them... that's really the epitome of sad :P
At defcon 8 DPS was at defcon and Burrows straight up social engineered his way into the server room and rooted the main box. So technically we had just won but they disqualified him cuase they wouldn't acknowledge social engineering as valid. Before defcon 8 DPS (dead [protocol] society) had pretty much dominated the social engineering contests but defcon 8 was the first year they decided to stop doing the social engineering contests so we were forced to improvise.
Die
...The .pak files?
*ducks*
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
Well, since the site is getting hit pretty hard, here is a direct link to all the mirrors:
t f-defcon9
Capture the Capture The Flag Mirrors
If you have a mirror up, please let me know.
If you're using wget to pull the data, please use the following command:
 wget -r -nd --no-parent -R "=A","=D" http://site/path/
US - Wisconsin (100Mbit):
http://www.wi2600.org/mediawhore/mirrors/shmoo/cc
US - Colorado (100Mbit):
http://www.ucar.edu/temp/shmoo-defcon9-ctf/
US - Pennsylvania (T1):
http://www.bitsend.com/defcon9-cctf
US - Alaska (DSL):
http://cctf1.shmoo.com
Please be sure to read the license.
'sploit ridden, 5.8GB of intrusion collusion ever published. Free for the bandwidth endowed'
... on a 56k modem ,(if my math is correct) , then thats about 10 days...
You would need alot of and bandwidth and evan more time on your hand to evan start on.
Now , let my see
Cruise TT
Putting a couple of Gigs data on the net and then having the bad luck to be posted on Slashdot is going to mean that their link will be unreachable for most of the day. :-) But hey it will probably make for neat graphs.
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How are they going to pay for the bandwidth cos on this...if evan just 1000 people download it (and it has been slashdotted) then it will 5.8 Terabytes of information to be downloaded.
This won't exaclty be payed for by a banner ad.
Cruise TT
Go buy an IBM or HP server, better hardware for less money.
Sincerely, Mike Bouma
But after I became involved in tech support for major financial institutions, I realised that although security there was reasonably good, you could almost always circumvent it via social engineering.
My favorite trick to get into the server room was to put on an old hard-hat and a fluorescent jacket. I would stand outside the door until someone came along, then I would simply ask them to let me in. Which about 70% of the time, they did. At which point, I would point out to them that I could have been anyone, usually got an embarassed apology.
I was using social engineering to raise the security awareness of staff, but it was a real eye-opener to me just how easy it was to control people.
Their site may be but I got a blazingly fast 11.9 MB PER SECOND!
:)
It feels damn good to take over a 1/10 of a major pipe
"Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness." - M
Mirror in the making at http://deimos.siliconinc.net/cctf
Its currently chugging away at about 250 kbps, so it should be done within a few hours. There is already 1+ gig of data up there for your browsing pleasure, and its chugging away at around 250kbps. Enjoy. If it breaks email me or something.
Insert witty
Tcpdump? or what else?
from what I hear, n-ctf SUCKED this year...
From a friend whom was on one of the teams:
We set up some 'reflectors', using the MIRROR target of the Linux netfilter and almost got booted of the net by the judges for this unique solution.
Bleh.
I don't know about defcon 9 (2001), but I seem to recall them only being able to get part of the traffic at defcon 8 (2000).
[*] my emphasis, not theirs
"Weapons should be hardy rather than decorative" - Miyamoto Musashi
I think that goes for OS's too
Looks like a great case for using something like SwarmCast.
On a completely offtopic note, a swarmcast like system would work great with the P2P file sharing programs, would it?
the shmoo group's data gives an idea of the type of attack tools that are most commonly used in intrusion attempts, but if you want to know the tools and techniques that are the most likely to succeed, it would be good to talk to Caezar or some other member of the ghettohackers. After all, they are the ones who win at capture the flag year after year....
"Weapons should be hardy rather than decorative" - Miyamoto Musashi
I think that goes for OS's too
Call me lazy (I am) is there a summary or commentary on all that raw information that can show us hacks attempted, both successful and unsuccessful. It even gives some hacker some reflected flame at deciphering and commenting on the information. If I was considerably less lazy I might do it myself.
Greed is Good - 1980's
Lazy is Good - 2001
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Its a troll.. no real links here.. move along.
GPL'd web-based tradewars themed space game
I suppose that would then be "Metacapturing the Flag".
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Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
Odd question?...
But, for a free site that simply runs off banner ads and donations
Why does Slashdot never get Slashdotted?
Sorry just had to ask....
isn't hacking a form of lying to the sysadmin ? 8)
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
>Why does Slashdot never get Slashdotted?
:)
To steal from Yogi Berra, because "no one reads Slashdot anymore, it's too popular."
Besides, we're all too busy slashdotting the other sites to spend time here
A.
Microsoft's email client caused some people on the wireless network almost as much grief during blackhat this year. ;-)
-Joey
"Weapons should be hardy rather than decorative" - Miyamoto Musashi
I think that goes for OS's too
Actually it did during the sept WTC attacks. Slashdot was virtually unuseable. CNN was better.
-- RTFM:Slackware::Beer:Saturday
I think you mean "a free site that simply runs off banner ads and donations" ... but is backed by a large linux company (VA) that has lots of ca$h money to throw at popular linux "products" such as /. for servers and whatnot.
The rules for CTF at DC9 were, unfortunately, not well tested prior to the actual event. The intent of the rules were to provide more targets to attack, by shifting the burden of providing targets to the competitors. However, with the rules as written at the beginning of the contest, it turned out to be (pointwise) not worth attempting to hack. The net effect of the rules were that most groups were simply putting up a server, getting the points and pulling it down. While this is a valid strategy for that ruleset, it doesn't make for much of a hacking competition. This constant churning of servers also made hacking difficult, with targets disappearing by the time you could identify them through the standard CTF network instability.
We (the GhettoHackers, with the much appreciated help of Jennifer Grannick) managed to slowly, over the course of the competition, convince Miles to change the rules to a set more conductive to an actual hacking competition. When teams began merging due to the rule changes, we merged with Digital Revelation, to both group's benefit. We gained their server points, and they gained our capture points.
Besides winning CTF, the GhettoHackers / Digital Revelation team also had the highest average Blood Alcohol Level of any group (check out http://cow.pasture.com/~tcroc for more details). As announced at the awards ceremony, we, the GhettoHackers, have retired from CTF after DC9. To help foster more competiton, and for a different application of our expertise, the GhettoHackers will be helping to run CTF at DC10.
Democracy is dead. All kneel to the Commander In Thief.
"this is the ultimate IDS testbed."
No, it really isn't. Read up on the cluefull folk's take on tiger teams. Tiger teams are not the ultimate test of if your box is hackable or not. Tiger teams are the ultimate test of if said team can hack your box. There is a distinct difference. Similarly, the capture the flag data only documents a select number of hacker's techniques.
You can't predict what hackers will do. You can only be cautious.
i don't understand..... mine said 8MB/sec as well....... i don't understand. i transfered it in linux with the correct wget parameters and it said 120k/s (more reasonable).
These people sign up and paid for the membership. Prizes were promised for those that competed. When it came time to give out the prizes, DEF CON fell flat.
Don't trust DEF CON.
Defcon 9 was my first time with CTF and I must say, it's not exactly what I expected. My buddy Thalakan got recruited to Digital Revelation and he recruited me over there. 90% of the time, everyone hacked systems that were difficult to hack. All the servers on the server segment (x.x.x.250-254) had either chrooted systems, patched servers and for a day and a half, nothing happened. During that time, the most exciting thing was when Dan got social engineered (see above link). However, 2 hacks did happen. I think it was prophet on digital revelation who rooted a win2k box with the unicode exploit. Then, the most exciting hack was the obsd 2.9 local exploit. Someone from the grey team finally setup a server with local access (he gave out login/password) and the race was on to apply the exploit. By this time, we were already merged with ghetto and everyone watched in anticipation. Eugene, from the ghetto hackers worked ferverntly and a bunch of us watched in anticipation. Because of the race condtion, two teams simultaneously rooted the server at the same time and split the points.
Since there was physical access to the box (they were located right next to the operator), I heard that people yanked network cables when they were about to be rooted.
There were many interesting systems and different programs that ran on the network but without source, 2 days is simply not enough time to do anything substantial. I hope next year, Caesar and the Ghetto Hackers will run a better job of providing more interesting hacks. I'm hoping the judges will put up servers that arent locked down. Those roots will be for maybe 10 points. Roots in servers with no known vulnerability (with source provided) will give 100 points. Something like that would provide with more hacks than the 3-5 roots we had. Having each team provide servers that are locked down is plain stupid.
-Nouveaux