- 2024
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BAE-CTF is Back!!!
The Operational Cyber Group from BAE Systems Digital Intelligence are pleased to work with the OU again to host a Capture the Flag event; two days of cyber security challenges and games. Now in its third year, following its huge success, anybody who is currently studying at the Open University and has a keen interest in Computer Science can sign up and play. There are prizes for the winning team! Also, those who took part in previous editions can join in again as all the challenges will be different. The event will take place on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 February 2024, and is being held online so you can join from anywhere with an Internet connection. The event will start with a 15-minute briefing at 10:00 on Saturday where BAE Systems Digital Intelligence will introduce themselves and explain the rules of the event. The event will finish at 16:00 on Sunday with a 15-minute event highlights and awards presentation. You are not expected to be online for the full two days and you can attempt as many or as few challenges as you wish. BAE staff will be online between 10:00 and 16:00 on both days to provide hints and tips on the challenges and are happy to discuss careers in cyber security and software engineering at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. The Capture the Flag platform will also remain available outside these hours until the event closes and allows you to participate in the challenges at times that are convenient for you. This is a team-based event for teams of 2 to 6 players. If you don’t have a team, then don’t worry – register and you be allocated to a team. The challenges will involve breaking into vulnerable websites, cracking ciphers, forensic analysis, reverse engineering and much more. No previous experience of these kinds of challenge is necessary; however, some experience with programming is recommended. The challenges are designed for students who like taking things apart and seeing how they work. If you are new to these activities, we highly recommend you look at the following sites, to get an idea of the kinds of challenges that will be involved:
Hack the Box
TryHackMe
Blue Team Labs
PicoCTF
Attack-Defense
Exploit Education"
CryptoHack
Defend the Web"
VulnHub
Starting: Saturday 17th Feb 2024 @ 10:00
Finishing: Sunday 26th Mar 2024 @ 16:00
- BAE Update: Many members from the OU played in the BAE CTF. It was an exciting weekend with lots of people losing sleep to work out challenges. This time they used MatterMost as a platform and as a result it was hard to keep tabs on who we have here was in what team. Either way the team that one did unreal and still no one know who the tean consisted off XD. It was a great learning curve again and next year I think we would most likely try and form teams, Then we have more to report back on. BAE don't publish result after thr event for privacy, so until next year!!
- 2023
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We are Back!!!
Our team The Open University will be competing again this year in Hack the Box's University Brains and Bytes CTF. With new members and old eager to go.
With a team size of 30 this gives an opportunity for more members to collaborate on challenges and hopefully grab a flag.
Follow the progress in our Discord channel - cheer us on xD or join along and have some fun (:
Starting: 8th Dec 2023 @ 13:00
Finishing: 10th Dec 2023 @ 21:00
ctf.hackthebox.com - 2022
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Our team InfOUsec will be competing again this year in Hack the Box's Cyber Apocalypse CTF
Starting: 14th May 2022 @ 13:00
Finishing: 20th May 2022 @ 13:00
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The Operational Cyber Group from BAE Systems Applied Intelligence are running a Capture the Flag event; two days of cyber security challenges and games. Anybody who is currently enrolled at the Open University and has a keen interest in Computer Science can sign up and play. There are prizes for the winning team!
The event will take place on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 February 2022, and is being held online so you can join from anywhere with an Internet connection. The event will start with a 15 minute briefing at 10:00 on Saturday where BAE Systems Applied Intelligence will introduce themselves and explain the rules of the event. The event will finish at 16:00 on Sunday with a 15 minute event highlights and awards presentation. You are not expected to be online for the full two days and you can attempt as many or as few challenges as you wish.
REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT
- 2021
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We have the one and only Optional joining us at 8pm on 29th September!
Optional is visiting us to talk about his career as a pentester, hints, tips and tools and will be answering all your questions. The best question according to him will win a prize.
Bring your drinks, popcorn and brains for the first ever time he has agreed to do this. A great coup for the OUCSS. Tell your friends, invite them over. Let's make this the start of many specialist invites. With everyones contribution, we can make this community the place all experts want to visit.
Check out Optionals paltforms. Twitch - YouTube - Twitter -
19/04/2021 - 23/04/2021 - Our team will be participating in this week long Hack the Box capture the flag competition. Team size is limited to 10 players per team.
CTF details here
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11/12/2020 - Our team will be participating in this week long capture the flag competition. Any students wishing to participate should head over to our Discord where you will find the team details.
CTF details here
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OUCSS Christmas Giveaway 2020
Christmas is around the corner and we would like to give you the chance to win 2 months membership to either Hack the Box or TryHackMe or you can mix and match!
Please head over to our Discord and like the post in the christmas-giveaways channel.
you can get access to our Discord via our Facebook group
The winners will be announced 24th December
Good Luck!
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Metasploit Community CTF 2020
04/12/2020 - A few of us took part in Metasploit's Community CTF which ran over 4 days (ish). A lot of fun was had and a lot of experience was gained! We came 64th out of 413 teams, solving 12 out of 20 challenges which is a massive achievement!
CTF details here
Great effort by the team! such a fun CTF!
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Hack the Box - University CTF 2020
20/11/2020 - 10 Students from our Team competed in the Hack the Box University CTF. We had a lot of fun but sadly did not get past the qulification stage.
We placed 125th out of 204 teams. It was tough!
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Guest Speaker - Optional
We are excited to announce that the one and only Optional is joining us on the Discord Server at 8pm on 29th September 2021. Come and join us to hear more about nhis work, challenges and a chance to ask thos burning questions
Please head over to our Discord to join the chat. We have other guest speakers lined up for the future
you can get access to our Discord via our Facebook group
Well this was a great experience from the members who played. As it was two long weeks it took the pressure off and allowed a lot of learnings whilst trying to solve some great challenges. Again we placed on the scoredboard pretty hign considering the 1000's of teams who entered.
OUCSS played well for an htb tournament we finished 471st out of 5693 teams which by HTB standards is pretty good. The team again lost sleep but some players came up with great solutions to the challenges we did get. Hopefully we can link some write-ups soon - collating the members notes is hard.
