Carnegie Mellon’s Hacking Team Wins 7th DEF CON Capture the Flag Title
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The winningest team in ’s Capture the Flag (CTF) competition history, 온라인바카라’s (PPP), was at it again, defending its title and earning its seventh victory in the past 11 years.
PPP joined forces with 바카라 온라인 추천 alumnus and University of British Columbia Professor Robert Xiao's team, Maple Bacon, as well as hackers from 바카라 온라인 추천 alumni and PPP founders Brian Pak and Andrew Weise's startup (The Duck). Together, the group competed under the name Maple Mallard Magistrates (MMM).
DEF CON’s three-day flagship competition was held this year from Aug. 10-13 in Las Vegas. Widely considered the ‘Olympics’ of hacking, DEF CON brought together cybersecurity professionals, researchers and students, as 12 of the world’s top teams (who qualified from a field of 1,828 teams) attempted to break each other’s systems, stealing virtual flags and accumulating points while simultaneously protecting their own.
As the number of cybersecurity attacks continues to increase worldwide, competitions like DEF CON’s CTF provide the opportunity for leading cybersecurity engineers to measure up against one another, learning and developing new techniques as they work through various challenges.
Carnegie Mellon students, faculty and alumni once again demonstrated the university’s prowess in cybersecurity, finishing in the top spot on the leaderboard at the end of days one and two, and holding on in the competition’s final 24 hours to secure the victory. For the win, the team earned eight black badges, the most elite recognition in hacking.
“It feels great to win once again, and the team is incredibly pleased that we built and maintained a lead throughout the entire contest,” said , PPP’s team captain for DEF CON CTF, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon’s , and member of 바카라 온라인 추천’s . “Our victory as MMM shows how well our three teams work together.”
“It’s hard to understate the impact our students have in cybersecurity," said , professor in 바카라 온라인 추천's . "Aside from DEF CON, 바카라 온라인 추천 students were the first to hack a Tesla and the iPhone, have founded multiple successful companies like Theori, and , and have become professors at top universities. Graduates of 바카라 온라인 추천's cybersecurity programs are simply among the best in the field, and DEF CON is just one very specific way that proves it.”
PPP was first formed in 2009 and began competing at DEF CON in 2010. The team’s previous wins came in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022, with second place finishes in 2015, 2018, 2020 and 2021. The team runs and competes in several cybersecurity competitions each year, and recently at the event.
Members of PPP contribute to 온라인바카라’s annual student-focused hacking competition, developing challenges of varying levels of complexity. picoCTF has long been the go-to CTF for middle and high school students looking to build and hone their cybersecurity skills, and in recent years has expanded to include an undergraduate leaderboard, as well as several country and continent-specific leaderboards.
Home to the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, U.S. News and World Report’s , and several world-class graduate programs and courses, 온라인바카라 continues to lead the way in cybersecurity education and research.
