US Air Force Academy Cyber Competition Team

DEFCON quals are over! After a grueling 48 hours, the USAFA team placed 60th of 285 scoring teams. The DEFCON CTF is the most difficult the cadets compete in each year. The top 15 teams are invited to compete in the finals in Las Vegas, and this competition attracts a lot of professional teams.

Academy places 2nd in NSA cyber competition The Air Force Academy's Cyber Team took second place in the National Security Administration's 15th annual Cyber Defense Exercise April 13-16. Navy won the competition and the Army took third place. The Academy tied for first place in the reverse engineering challenge with a perfect s

The cadets worked long hard hours on this exercise! Official results will be announced Friday, but they certainly are winners whatever the final tally.

Cadets are competing in the 2015 NSA Cyber Competition! The team placed second last year.

Federal Computer Week visited the USAFA Cyber Competition Team
http://fcw.com/articles/2015/03/12/air-force-cyber-cadets.aspx

Meet the Air Force's future cyber force -- FCW FCW visited the Air Force Academy outside Colorado Springs, where a team of young cyber cadets is racking up medals and experience prized by Pentagon leaders.

The Air Force Academy team placed third at the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held at Regis University Denver Tech Center campus 27-28 February 2015.

The USAFA Cyber Competition Team will head to Regis University in Denver this weekend for the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. http://www.raytheon.com/news/feature/nothing_net.html

Raytheon: Nothing But Net - The “Big Dance of Data Defense” Tips Off this Month CyberSlang: The �@ to Zombie� Guide to Geek Speak

http://gazette.com/air-force-academy-cadets-show-skill-in-cybersecurity-competition/article/1545994 .99

Air Force Academy cadets show skill in cybersecurity competition Cadets at the Air Force Academy recently took top honors at a Pennsylvania cybersecurity competition pitting them against their counterparts from other service academies. It's a competition that involves tons of brains if little brawn as cadets battle to control computer networks and foil opposing h…

Final Cyber Stakes results are in! 10 teams of 3, one from Coast Guard, and three each from USAFA, USMA, and USNA competed in 5 team events. Air Force gathered three gold, one silver and three bronze medals. In individual rapid reverse engineering, Air Force brought home gold. And in the individual online event this past fall, we scored silver and bronze. Great job by the cadets. Now we're hoping to escape the snow in Pittsburgh to be back for classes tomorrow.

Media coverage of our current competition! http://triblive.com/news/editorspicks/7669450-74/computer-military-security

Hacking skills honed in Oakland Some of the cadets huddled around computers, with running scripts blurring their monitors. Others sat at door locks, trying to figure out how to pick ...

Another gold and bronze for our air force teams in reverse engineering!

After a grueling 9 hour long attack/defense competition, an Air Force Academy team scored another bronze. Today, cadets and midshipmen will set aside interservice rivalry for a mixed team event, compete in an individual event and do forensics and reverse engineering.

Members of the USAFA Cyber Competition Team are in Pittsburgh for the DARPA Cyberstakes competition. In the first event, USAFA scored a gold and bronze medal.

The USAFA Cyber Competition Team placed 49th of 323 scoring teams in the Ghost in the Shellcode Capture the Flag competition this weekend. This competition featured a video game, which cadets reverse engineered and modified to give themselves extra abilities (e.g. flying!), as well as more traditional capture flag problems in cryptography, reverse engineering, programming, etc.

The USAFA Cyber Competition Team placed 97th of 446 in the Advent CTF (http://adctf2014.katsudon.org/). One challenge per day was issued from 1 - 25 December 2014. Alas finals and leave got in the way, so we only solved the first 10.

Advent Calendar CTF 2014

http://www.usafa.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-141027-019.pdf - see page 6 for a great writeup on Kevin Cooper!

The USAFA Cyber Competition Team placed 116th out of 581 teams in the Hack.LU Capture the Flag competition. The competition ran from 0200 on 10/21 to 0200 on 10/23 (local time). https://wildwildweb.fluxfingers.net/ The competition had challenges in cryptography, explotation, reversing, web and miscellaneous. Cadets competed after classes.

Hack.lu 2014 CTF

I am always amused by how many USAFA Cyber Team photos are used in news articles not about us.
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/10/should-we-put-robots-charge-cybersecurity/96023/?oref=d-river

Should We Put Robots in Charge of Cybersecurity? Most network intrusions can be traced back to human error. Are robots the answer? By Aliya Sternstein

Photos from the weekend's NYU Poly CSAW CTF qualifying round. USAFA placed 17th of 98 US/Canadian undergrad teams, and 53/1195 overall.

The USAFA Cyber Competition Team battled to 17th of 98 qualifying teams and 53/1195 overall in the NYU Poly Cyber Security Awareness Week CTF qualifying round held this weekend. The competition ran from 4pm Friday to 4pm Sunday (local time). Cadets solved challenges in exploitation, reverse engineering, cryptography, forensics, reconnaissance, networking and trivia. https://ctf.isis.poly.edu/

CSAW CTF

MITRE CTF 2014 photos.

A USAFA team placed 5th of 59 teams in the MITRE CTF 2014 (https://scoreboard.mitrestemctf.org/users). The competition challenged students to solve problems in steganography, software exploitation, computer forensics, cryptography, and networking. The competition ran for 24 consecutive hours, from 1pm Friday (local) until 1pm Saturday.

MITRE CTF 2014 : Teams

A combined team of cadets and USAFA Cyber Competition Team grads placed 52nd of 402 teams in the DEFCON 2014 CTF quals held 16-18 May.