In CTF, the objective is to score as many points as possible by successfully defending one’s cyber infrastructure against attacks and to successfully attack other team’s cyber infrastructure.
Each team consists of up to 3 players. The competition had a total of 8 teams from professionals and students.
The configurations of the infrastructure will include numerous vulnerable services. Participants with reverse engineering and exploitation skills will have an advantage over participants without. Besides the cyber infrastructure, each team will be provided with 3 computers as consoles for launching their vicious attacks or putting up their strong defenses. The two teams were at the competition site 24 hours before the start of the competition, and configured the systems for defense as well as offense for the actual competition.
The Team Defenders will act as systems administrators who are responsible for defending the critical assets in the environment. Defenders will be scored based on their ability to defend their critical systems and services up without interruption. They are also required to respond to ‘injects’ - specific tasks that will be emailed to them and require a response/action within a specific amount of time. Team “Musique” from TP scored the highest score in the defensive tactics where “Bandwidth Killers” placed second in place for the defense.
Offensive is another way of scoring in this competition. The offensive performance is based on the ability to corrupt the flags of other teams, obtain execute privileges on the other Teams’ systems and keep the access open at all times by backdooring or using alternatives way to control of the systems. TP’s “Bandwidth Killers” scored the highest in the offensive tactics.
In the beginning, all teams started with 0 points. Points are deducted from a team for failing to defend assets, system compromises, corrupted flags, and incomplete injects, and points are added to teams which can successfully attack other teams’ systems. The team with the highest score wins. After adding up the scores for offense, defense and flags, “Bandwidth Killers” won the first prize overall. Musique has won the highest mark for defensive team. Bandwidth Killers were awarded SGD 10,000 for being the winners.

(from left to right: phone myint, daryl, nicholas, brandon) not in picture: hamzah





