March 8, 2011
We recognised a small mistake in our lower contribution and, partly, in e-mails. Due to scheduling conflicts, the first workshop will not take place on Thursday but instead on: Wednesday, 03/09/2011 The remaining information is still valid. In general, as in recent years: We will give a short introduction which is immediately followed by exercises. [...]
March 7, 2011
Since we scored second during last year’s PacketWars™ challenge on Troopers, we are invited to compete again. Troopers is an IT-security conference which is hosted every year by the company ERNW GmbH at PMA in Heidelberg. During this conference, a so called PacketWars takes place. This kind of IT-security contests is fundamentally different from CTF contests which [...]
February 14, 2011
As every spring term, the squareroots are organizing a series of security related workshops. These workshops deal with all kind of IT security related topics like crypto, network security and webhacking. Since we want to encourage all students of the University of Mannheim to participate, no prior “hacking knowledge” is necessary. Everyone who is interested [...]
March 10, 2010
As we already announced, we’re organizing a set of workshops during the spring term 2010. This post summarizes the first workshop that was held last week and gave further organizational details. About 40 people participated while we presented — among other things — the order of the topics: JavaScript (10.3.) SQL Injection I (17.3.) SQL [...]
July 30, 2009
Since this blog gets more and more hits concerning common CTF information, we are switching to english We will participate in HARCTF, which is a CTF contest organised by hcesperer and taking place at the Hacking At Random security conference. Since hc organised the da-op3n contests for the last years, we are looking forward to [...]
July 13, 2009
Since we missed some CTF contests in the past, we decided to host a common mailinglist for information about CTF contests. It would be great if team members of all CTF teams register to the list to create such a common source of CTF information. The list is at ctf[at]lists.ctf-hacking.de, web-based registration is possible, too: [...]