<br>Its very nice to see events happening on cyber security, but i dont have a team i am alone, can i participate ?<br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/11 Sanjay Gopalan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gopalan.sanjay@gmail.com">gopalan.sanjay@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:large">Hello everyone,</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="4">My
name is Sanjay Gopalan and I am a student of Amrita University,
Amritapuri, Kerala. The university, in association with Amrita TIFAC
Core in Cyber security, is conducting a national level capture the
flag style ethical hacking contest, InCTF, solely aimed at students.
The contest is similar to several international CTF style contests
such as UCSB's iCTF, RuCTFe etc but participation is limited to
students enrolled in an Indian University only and is being held from
November 2011 to January 2012.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="4">The
goal of the contest is to impart to students knowledge of secure
coding practices and the implications of not following them. The
contest features 3 rounds-first round is a learning round, second
puts the learning to test and the final round is the CTF round where
teams will be given a vulnerable Linux machine to defend.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="4">The
pre-requisite of the contest is knowledge of a programming language.
Working knowledge of Linux is highly desirable but not required;
learn the required skills while participating in the contest. The
first round is a learning round which imparts the skills that will be
required in the later stages of the contest.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="4">A
team can consist of maximum 5 members, all of whom must be from the
same college. There is no registration fee to participate in the
contest. Prizes for the top 5 places: upto Rs. 25000, upto Rs. 20000,
upto Rs. 15000, upto Rs. 10000 and upto Rs. 5000 respectively.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><font color="#000000"><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Registrations
to the contest are open till December 31st, 2011. </span></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Keep
in touch via </span></span></font></font></font><a href="http://inctf.in/" target="_blank"><font color="#0658b5"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Website </span></span></font></font></font></a><font color="#000000"><font face="arial"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"> </span></span></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">| </span></span></font></font></font><a href="mailto:contact@inctf.in" target="_blank"><font color="#0658b5"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Email</span></span></font></font></font></a><font color="#000000"><font face="arial"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"> </span></span></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">| </span></span></font></font></font><a href="http://www.facebook.com/InCTF" target="_blank"><font color="#0658b5"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Facebook</span></span></font></font></font></a><font color="#000000"><font face="arial"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"> </span></span></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">| </span></span></font></font></font><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/InCTF" target="_blank"><font color="#0658b5"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Twitter</span></span></font></font></font></a><font color="#000000"><font face="arial"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"> </span></span></font></font></p>
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