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Introduction

Aloha and Mahalo for participating in the Cyber 'Ike CTF event hosted by Cyber 'Ike.

Important Information

Please be sure the review this page carefully and then ask questions that aren't answered on this page or in our FAQs.

CyberStrike Participants

Discord Server Instructions

When you join the Discord server, please head over to #role-assignment and select your role. The following roles are available along with a description of what they are:

* K12 - All K-12 CyberStrike participants.
* Professional - For all CyberStrike participants in University or above.
* K12 Coach and Mentor - For Coaches and Mentors to K12 teams participating in CyberStrike.

K12 Participants

Team leaders, under the Resources category please go to #create-a-team channel and send a message with the following information:

  1. Team Name
  2. School Name
  3. Tag all of your members

Standard Rules (All Participants)

The following rules applies to both the CTF platform and Discord servers. You will be removed from participating in the CTF if you are caught.

Danger

  • No inappropriate usernames or nicknames.
  • No sexually suggestive and explicit usernames or nicknames.
  • No offensive usernames or nicknames.
  • No inappropriate, sexually explicit, or offensive profile pictures.
  • No NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content.
  • No illegal content.
  • No harassment.
  • No sexism.
  • No racism.
  • No hate speech.
  • No offensive language/cursing.
  • No malicious links or files.
  • No collusion with other teams (including with your friends on other teams)
  • Be professional and have fun!

Teams and Rules

Team names should follow the above standard rules. Each team is limited up to 5 (FIVE) participants per team. There can be multiple teams representing a school or company, however there may only be 1 (ONE) winning team per school or company (this is usually the selected top team).

You may not collude with anyone outside your team (that incldes your friends on another team).

Special Rules for K12 Teams

K12 teams, please read more about the special rules here

Registration

  1. Begin by registering for a CTF account, on the top right of the CTF site.
  2. Click on "Register". Be sure to fill out all the information such as the username, full name (this must be your real name in order to issue a CPE Certificate), email address (this must be a working email address in order to receive your CPE Certificate for Professionals), a strong password, and your Affiliation (Name of the company, school, or organization that you're affiliated with e.g. Hawaii High School, Hawaii Bank, Non-Profit Company).

Basic Information

Challenges

There are various difficulty of challenges created in several Cybersecurity related categories to test your skills and knowledge. You will notice that there are some challenges that look like the picture below.

Requirements Image

Please do not be alarmed as these challenges are not available until you have solved a pre-requisite challenge.

If you get stuck on a challenge, don't spend too much time on it and move onto another challenge to come back to it later.

Files

Some challenges will require you to download files for the challenge to complete it. They are embeded as links in each of their respective challenge and are not hosted on the server directly. Please right click the links and save these files. If you are having trouble downloading these files, please notify the CTF Staff.

Live Challenges

In this CTF environment, there are Discord Challenges that require you interact with CTF Staff in Discord in your team assigned channel. Please remember to start the challenge in there and indicate on the first message which challenge (challenge name) that you are starting so CTF Staff know what you are working on. All submissions must happen in the chat and the flag will be sent after you complete the challenge.

Challenge Categories

More information about Challenge Categories here.

Flags

All challenges have a standard flag format that is to be accepted as the answer to the challenge.

Flag Examples

  • CI{ThisIsAFlag}
  • CI{caSEinSenSiTiveFlAg}
  • CI{EX{another_Type_of_Flag}}

In order to make this CTF easier, all flags are case insensitive and doesn't require you to have exactly the correct capital and lower case letters in the flag. However, there are submission limitations to prevent flooding random guesses. Flags will not have spaces in them to prevent confusion, they are substituted with underscores instead.

Hints

We have provided hints onto all of our challenges. The first teaser hint cost 0 points, however each additional hint beyond the first one will cost you points.

Note

Note: You may only ask for help in the Discord channel (#help) and nowhere else. CTF Staff will ignore direct messages or tickets asking for help. This is a competition, not a class.

Points

Point Distribution

  • Multiple Choice and Trivia 1 points
  • Live Challenge/Physical Injects Vary points
  • 🐶 Easy 5 points
  • 🐻 Medium 15 points
  • Hard 20 points
  • Extreme 21+ points
Note

At the discretion of the CTF Staff, points may be awarded or deducted during the competition for any reason.

Introduction Challenge Flag

The flag is CI{WelcomeToTheCompetition}