If endurance, skill, and strategy were the only classifications required for an activity to be considered sport, competitive hacking could be the newest "sport" gaining popularity. With Capture the ...

DefCon creator and organizer Jeff Moss (aka Dark Tangent) put out a call for proposals in late January looking for a group to design, organize and run this year's Capture the Flag (CTF) event at ...

Members of the winning team 1@stPlace after 2 day marathon At this years CTF (Capture the Flag) competition at DEFCON 2006, elite programmers and security penetration experts duke it out in a grueling ...

This past weekend was the return of the wildly popular Defcon Capture the Flag qualifiers. "Quals," the commonly used nickname, is an entire weekend of non-stop online security challenges that test ...

Kenshoto, organizer of the official Defcon Capture the Flag contest for the last four years, has stepped down from the position, and thus Defcon is looking for a new organizer for the event. If you’re ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foreground Security today announced that three of its Security Analysts have qualified for the Capture the Flag (CTF) contest at DEFCON 18, from July 30 – August 1, ...

PPP members and CMU alumni Erye Hernandez (INI '14; left) and Tyler Nighswander (CS '13; right) compete at the annual DefCon capture the flag competition. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Kenshoto held qualifiers for the DefCon‘s Capture the Flag competition last weekend. The top seven finishers: Routards, Pandas with Gambas, Guard@MyLan0, Shellphish, Taekwon-V, WOWHACKER, PLUS, and ...