CTF Time 2014

Position	IRL Pos’n	Team	Points	Events
1028	1	Packet_Monkeys	8.176

CTF Time 2015

Position	IRL Pos’n	Team	Points	Events
644	1	FireBreathingDublinDuckies	12.869
3805	2	Packet_Monkeys	1.010

CTF Time 2016

Position	IRL Pos’n	Team	Points	Events
2605	1	spid3rs	2.927
3003	2	Bitbucket	2.495
4901	3	ZeroDaysCTF	1.118
8938	4	Kerfuffle	0.152
9529	5	LizardSquid	0.096
12527	6	Hostbusters	0.000

CTF Time 2017

Position	IRL Pos’n	Team	Points	Events
544	1	HakureiSec	22.714	2
910	2	PineapplePizza	15.325	5
1101	3	Trinity CTF	13.197	10
1589	4	Pineapple Pizza	7.480	4
3530	5	0DaysSober	2.001	1
4216	6	ITBHackerSec	1.407	1
6998	7	LizardSquid	0.354	1

CTF Time 2018

Worldwide Pos	Ireland Pos	Name	Points	Events
2135	1	TrinityCTF	8.453	4
3228	2	Raptorz	5.018	1
5853	3	DemonDance	2.031	2
7710	4	Quantum Leap	1.195	3
10575	5	potatos	0.626	1
13965	6	irish_3l!te	0.229	1
15270	7	Team Harambe	0.142	1

CTF Time 2019

Wordwide Pos	Ireland Pos	Name	Points	Events
779	1	WFTC	33.264	8
2946	2	Pineapple Pizza	8.011	1
3309	3	echo $man	6.912	1
4882	4	Raptorz	4.097	1
8330	5	ZeroDaysFun	1.772	1
18320	6	potatos	0.237	1

Report

There has been a different Irish Team ranked top in Ireland since 2014. Packet_Monkeys in 2014, FireBreathingDublinDuckies in 2015, spid3rs in 2016, HakureiSec in 2017, TrinityCTF in 2018, and WFTC in 2019.

The Highest Worldwide Position ever by an Irish Team in the End-of-Year Rankings is 554 for HakureiSec in 2017 with 22.714 Points. The Highest Overall Total was WFTC in 2019, with 33.264 Points.

About

Capture the Flag is Information Security Competitions, a kind of Sport for Computer Combat.

There are three common types of CTF Competitions: Jeopardy, Attack-Defense, and Mixed.

Jeopardy Competitions have a number of Tasks (questions) such as Web, Forensic, Crypto or Binary. Teams gain points for completed tasks, the harder the task, the more points.

Attack-Defense is another scenario, whereby teams have their own network (or only one host) with vulnerable services. Teams have a time limit for developing services and developing exploits. Then the organisers connect the competitors and the Wargame starts. Points are gained for Defense (protecting own services) and Attack (hacking opponents services).

Mixed employ both Jeopardy and Attack-Defense scenarios.

Capture the Flag games touch on a number of different aspects of information security, such as Cryptography, Stego, Binary Analysis, Reverse Engineering and Mobile Security.

References

Websites

[1] CTF Time (2017) Ireland 2014 [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/stats/2014/IE [Accessed 13 November 2017]

[2] CTF Time (2017) Ireland 2015 [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/stats/2015/IE [Accessed 13 November 2017]

[3] CTF Time (2017) Ireland 2016 [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/stats/2016/IE [Accessed 13 November 2017]

[4] CTF Time (2017) Ireland 2017 [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/stats/2017/IE [Accessed 13 November 2017]

[5] CTF Time (2017) Ireland 2018 [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/stats/2018/IE [Accessed 9 March 2020]

[6] CTF Time (2017) Ireland 2019 [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/stats/2019/IE [Accessed 9 March 2020]

[7] CTF Time (2017) What is CTF? [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/ctf-wtf/ [Accessed 9 March 2020]

Images

[8] CTF Time (2017) CTF Time Logo [Internet] Available from: https://ctftime.org/static/images/CTFTIME-flat-logo-true.png [Accessed 28 November 2017]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Eoin O’Fearghaill, Grant Farrell & John Morahan.

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 18 January 2019

(c) Copyright Enda Mulcahy and Eirball 2019

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