TOMSK, Mar 19 – RIA Tomsk. Team of Tomsk State University (TSU) on computer safety SiBears became the absolute winner of the international competition of hackers Capture The Flag – 2018 (CTF); now the experienced part of team is waited by the internal international competition RuCTF, the press service of the university reports on Monday.
It is specified that CTF ("Capture The Flag") is an eight-hour competition which is held by the University of California in Santa Barbara.Teams solve close to real hacker tasks – investigate services written in different programming languages, look for vulnerabilities in them, correct and quickly attack to be ahead of rivals for the allowed time. This year the victory was won by the TSU SiBears team – students, employees and graduates of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science of TSU.
"This year not only students of different universities of the world, but also professional, skilled teams from the USA, Germany and other countries which are in a top became rivals of SiBears, and it was necessary to fight for the first place with them. <…> Organizers considered that everything was correct – and we won iCTF 2018 rightfully", – the captain Oleg Broslavsky is quoted.
It is noted that SiBears is an initiative of students where each member of the team tries to develop in area of information technologies interesting to him or her and computer safety. SiBears is also community which openly gives lectures and trainings every week and carry out free Sibears Young School for the second year."We are glad that we manage to create an environment where it is comfortable, pleasant and interesting to stay at the university on Saturdays before its closing, to stay overnight during the competition – and to become a popular expert in the sphere of IT. <…> Everyone has several offers from the rival companies by the graduation", – the participant of SiBears Aleksandra Murzina is quoted.
It is added that the experienced part of the SiBears team is waited at the internal international competition RuCTF in April.
Earlier it was reported that the TSU SiBears team was included in the top ten, having taken the eighth place in 2017 at the competitions iCTF which gathered more than 300 college and professional teams from around the world.