This is a Capture The Flag (CTF) cyber security challenge hosted in Western Australia. A two day event where your skills will be pitted against a range of technical challenges. A cyber security CTF is a type of information security competition where players solve security challenges from categories such as digital forensics, web application exploitation, and cryptography to get flags. Each flag has a points value associated with it based on the difficulty of the challenge.

This CTF has been built by members of the Perth security community. It is not a set of theoretical challenges, it’s built from real life examples by people who work in the security field – penetration testers, developers, forensics specialists, etc. – with considerable input from industry. We’ve come together to put this event on to help uplift the profile of cyber security in W.A. – helping not only introduce new people to the field, but also to put industry and individuals together to help stop the brain drain (the exit of talent from W.A.) that we are seeing.

WACTF is open to individuals and teams of up to four players. There are restrictions as to who can claim prizes, see the eligibility section. Registration for all players is required.

Prizes will be awarded to the eligible teams that finish the game in the top places of the scoreboard. The awards ceremony will be a casual event held in the Perth CBD where industry and academic professionals scouting the next generation of Australian cyber security talent are invited to come along.

Never played a CTF before?

You should attempt a few before WACTF. Some of our favorites can be found here, here, and here. Really lost? Ryan Leyshon from Warnbro Community High School created a guide to help newcomers get their system and tools setup for a CTF like WACTF. Ryan's guide can be found here.

Key Points

Registration: Via this form!

CTF Time/Date: 09:00 - 17:00 WST 3rd & 4th of December, 2022

Game Location: Online/Remote or On-Premises

What to bring (if playing onsite): Your haxing laptop with wireless capability & ID if you’re eligible for prizes

Awards Ceremony: 17:30 - 19:30 WST, Wednesday, 7th December 2022

Ceremony Location: Perth CBD

Are you a High School level teacher? If you are considering WACTF for your students, please see this short write-up of hints and tips kindly written by one of the teachers who attended last WACTF with some of their students.

Prizes

Each team member gets one of all of the listed prizes for that placing.

First Place

• Offensive Security 90 day Pentesting with Kali Labs + OSCP certification attempt

Please Note:

You must be 18+ to win this prize, and you can't already have your OSCP

• Xiaomi Mi Curved 34" WQHD 144Hz Monitor
• 12 month PentesterLab subscription
• Ticket to BSides Perth 2023

Second Place

• Flipper Zero
• 12 month PentesterLab subscription
• Ticket to BSides Perth 2023

Third Place

• 3 month PentesterLab subscription
• Ducky One 2 White Keyboard w/ Cherry Browns

Fourth Place

• 1 Month PentesterLab Subscription
• Pickpals Intro Set

Top Scoring High School

• 3 month PentesterLab subscription
• $100 JB HiFi Voucher
• Ticket to BSides Perth 2023

Rules

• No denial of service actions (against the target environment, underlying infrastructure & wired/wireless networks or anything else related).
• No subverting the platform or underlying infrastructure.
• Maximum of four people per team.
• Collusion between teams during WACTF is forbidden.
• WACTF is open to all ages, and there’s no alcohol permitted onsite.

Eligibility

This game is open to people in Australia who are starting out (or hoping to start out) in the information security or penetration testing field. To be eligible for prizes everyone in your team must live in Western Australia and fit into one of the following categories:

• High school Student
• Current Higher Education Student (UNI or TAFE)
• Higher Education Graduate (graduated within the last 12 months)
• Newcomer to the cyber security/information security field (less than a year in a dedicated security role or less than 4 years in I.T. for example: system/network admin or a developer).

Review the ID requirements if you’re eligible for prizes.

Your team can have a mixture of people who fit into different categories above, except for the High School specific prizes – for that category all team members must be current High School students. If you are graduating at the end of 2022 and have technically finished for the year, you’re still eligible.

Sorry, we’re full! Registration is now closed. Follow us on Twitter to stay informed.

• CTF Location

  Online/Remote or On-Premises

  Awards Ceremony Location

  Perth CBD

• Contact

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One of the core aims of WACTF is to bring together industry and individuals. We see too much good talent leaving W.A. due to an overall low level of awareness of the need for cyber-security related skills, or the inability for entities to find the right talent.

We are open to additional industry involvement and support to help make WACTF even more successful. If you would like to get involved to support, please get in touch via the email, or Twitter, on the right.

• Contact

  [email protected]
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