 Hey everyone, this is a quick announcement video because I'm super excited to share with you I'm hosting yet another capture the flag a CTF training exercise that you can participate in anyone can participate in It's open the world open the internet and any skill level can participate We have challenges for beginners intermediate advanced players Hopefully there'll be something fun and something enjoyable and some that you can learn from and educate yourself get smarter practice and sharpen your skill set I'm super excited to be hosting b-sides Boston CTF or b-sides boss CTF in Association kind of collaboration and work with b-sides Boston Security conference if you're interested. It's another classic b-sides Cyber security event. It's another conference. I do to the current world situation if you were to Google them online They are happening virtually this year. It'll be online, but it'll still be a ton of fun so please please please mark your calendar for Saturday September 26 if you want to participate in the conference or if you want to participate in the Capture the flag that's all happening that day the conference itself is doing some really really cool stuff They've got a ton of stuff going on. They have a lot of villages a lot of different activities You can go check them out online. I'm really flattered. They actually kind of mentioned me in a little note in the villages section The capture flag is being hosted by our dude John Hammond. So I appreciate that guys. Thank you but September 26th, it's gonna run from 9 a.m. Eastern time to 5 p.m. Eastern time And that means it's gonna be kind of a short competition It's only gonna be a day eight hour competition a little bit of a sprint. So we're doing a couple different things We're using this opportunity to Experiment and try some new stuff with the way that we host capture the flag competitions. So Classic rules page right this looks the same as all the other capture flag events we've put together I've put out for you the classic. Hey, don't brute force flags You don't need to use automated scanners don't attack the infrastructure other players. Please don't cheat don't share flags, etc Classic flag format and we'll be hanging out on my discord server in case you need any support or maybe they're just technical issues There's a challenge down or you just want to hang out send memes like we do so that'll be a lot of fun But what we're doing different with this capture the flag competition is that we're gonna try first of all I'm logged in as my admin account right now So if you to register or create an account you wouldn't be able to see these challenges yet You got to wait you got to wait until September 26th at this time when everyone does that f5 flood and The challenges here are going to be using Dynamic scoring so there's not going to be a static point value assigned to every single challenge and what you solve As more people solve a challenge the point value will decrease That helps us and me and the content creators here the the educators We're trying to bring some awesome training to you It helps us solve the problem of not knowing or not having a good grasp or not not Exactly understanding what the audience will see as difficult or easy So the challenges that more people solve will slowly decrease or decay in value So the ones that remain the harder more difficult challenges that have less solves will have More points associated with them So we're gonna be trying out dynamic point value and dynamic scoring in this case because we got a lot of feedback that hey It didn't make sense for this 50-point challenge to be much much harder than whatever 250 point challenge so we wanted to try this and experiment with it See how you guys like it see if you have an interest in that and alongside the dynamic point Dynamic scoring that we're doing we're trying out a new infrastructure technique so that every player has their own Individual instance or their own specific container to be interacting with when they're working with a dynamic Active changing challenge so it's kind of really cool You go over to this deployment tab over here You'll go ahead and start a challenge and then you'll be given either a link HTTP to go to a web challenge or a netcat thing or something download or whatever the case may be and you'll have this Syntax that just as you see regularly But we can go ahead open up a terminal and I will go ahead and connect to this just slap it in and it says Okay, now I'm in my shell so I can LS I can look around I can kind of see what I'm working with here and try to Solve this challenge, but this instance might be specific to me the player or you the individual that's going to work with that Specific challenge so that helps us because we don't have to deal with as many people trying to Vandalize and break the challenges and remove the flag and leave artifacts that they shouldn't and we also have a some shared Instances or some shared containers that are still going to be read-only so they'll still be accessible by everyone, but You won't be able to write anything or do anything bad and nefarious because we don't want that We're trying to lock this down and make it the best Educational learning experience that we can offer so we're really excited about this kind of new Roll your own or create your own your specific custom instance dedicated to you That's going to be a lot of cool a lot of cool fun stuff along with these Dynamic point values and dynamic scoring work. We want to test the water and see how you guys like that We want to learn from this We are super excited to be able to offer some prizes to the winners of the b-sides boss and capture the flag event If you take first place you'll get one year of hack the box pro-labs access Second place you'll get six months and third place you get three months We're super excited about that We're thankful that hack the box is willing to put those out for the b-sides boss and security conference and on that note I have to offer a little bit of a notice or disclaimer for these prizes So we wanted to make this capture the flag Open and accessible to everyone right in the mentality philosophy the mindset of CTF We wanted this event to be we wanted this CTF to be open and available for anyone in the world And we didn't want any cost or monetary value associated with that We didn't want you to have to buy something to be able to participate in this capture the flag the b-sides Boston Conference however is is put on by an organization and They need funding to do their Organization stuff so there is a slight cost to attend the conference But you still get all the perks of being able to hang out with everybody Listen to all the talks enjoy the speakers enjoy the villages gimmick with the CTF is that if you win if you take one of these first place second place or third place Positions you have to be registered for the conference in order to claim your prize We're doing that to kind of hey foster some growth in the conference foster some growth within the community And if you really really want that prize and you happen to take first place Oh, just you can purchase a ticket and it helps support the event if you happen to take first place second place or third place if you happen to place in the Capture the flag where you would be given a prize and you aren't registered for that b-sides Boston Conference We'll have to kind of go down the list and check out the scoreboard and Liederberg to see the next person in line That is registered for the conference and we'll end up giving them that prize So hey just kind of this is what we wanted to do with the b-sides Boston Conference So please do support come hang out and we'll be grateful for that and that way you can win your prize if you take first place So second place third place enjoy all right, so registration is User-based you can log in as just a register or create an account as a team or as an individual You can play solo if you want or you can work as a team but if you go ahead and do that then you'll have to Share that an account you'll have to work with that individual or your friends or your team to kind of consolidate all on one account To use and operate as your team if you register create an account It will go ahead and send you an email and that way we've got hey confirmation that you are who you say you are and We can allow you to change your password really easily without bugging any of the admin So that's a great thing and we'll get excited to see you on September 26 9 a.m. Eastern to 5 p.m. Eastern you can register for the game right now It's online at b-sides boss dot CTF dot games. So thanks so much everybody. I hope you'll come out and play I'm really really excited to put this together I'm really excited about all these kind of things that we're trying and seeing how we can better our Experience putting this event on but I'll see you there come hang out You