Eriksbergshallen - SecurityFest Conference 2017 in Göteborg, Sweden. Photo courtesy of securityfest.com

Warsaw, Poland - June 6, 2017

CodiSec’s CTF team captured the most flags — and the title — at last week’s SecurityFest Conference in Göteborg, Sweden.

https://ctftime.org/ctf-wtf/  

https://securityfest.com/  

CodiLime security experts beat out 200 global competitors, going down to the wire against a Korean team they overcame only in the last 30 minutes of play.

Organised in standard jeopardy style, the competition comprised 23 tasks rife with intentionally placed security flaws from four categories: reverse engineering, web application hacking, binary exploitation and cryptography.

Most of the challenges were ransomware themed, so the team analyzed essentially real security cases.

Ultimately, CodiSec was the only team to solve the most difficult of them: “Wanna try,” which was inspired by the WannaCry ransomware that attacked hundreds of thousands of computers last month.

The team spent an entire night and two working days solving the challenges.

CodiSec SecurityFest 2017 Scoreboard Photo courtesy of CodiLime

For its success, they won a 5000 SEK donation prize, which it has sent to the Python Software Foundation.

The team chose the foundation as its recipient because it produces what the security specialists and data scientists at CodiLime and deepsense.io consider to be among the most powerful tools available to them.

CodiLime provides professional IT consulting and software engineering services for global clients in three core areas: Networks, Security and Big Data Science & Deep Learning (through its deepsense.io subsidiary). Photo courtesy of CodiLime

The victory bumped CodiSec up in the global CTFtime rankings.

https://ctftime.org/stats/  

According to Captain Robert Tomkowski, the team is extremely proud of its performance, which again pushed its skills to the limit in a tough and sleepless journey.
“But this victory is only one small step to our ultimate goal — becoming the best security specialists and winning the CTFtime global ranking.”

Tomasz Kulakowski, Chief Executive Officer & President of the Management Board at CodiLime. Photo courtesy of CodiLime

CodiLime CEO Tomasz Kulakowski echoed Tomkowski’s enthusiasm and drive.
“CodiLime aspires to be the best in all of the most important, challenging and quickly developing areas of technology. We have had success pursuing this strategy in data science, and last year started our move into cybersecurity. We invest in our CTF team to help them develop quickly and become first-rate professionals. And there is no better motivator than competition! I’m thrilled to see the CodiSec team win a global contest and stay hungry for more”.

Photo courtesy of CodiLime

A division of CodiLime, CodiSec delivers penetration testing and malware analysis services.

It uses the expertise it gains during Capture The Flag competitions to secure its customers’ data.

It also supports the security research community by developing Veles, CodiSec’s open-source reverse engineering / binary data visualization and analysis tool.


Contact:

Barbara Rutkowska
+48 530 816 780
barbara.rutkowska@codilime.com  


About CodiSec

CodiSec is a new CodiLime initiative focused on delivering penetration testing and malware analysis services.

It's run by a group of security experts who continuously prove their skills with top spots in global Capture the Flag (CTF) hacking competitions.

The team is currently developing their own open-source tool for binary file analysis allowing users to combine hex editor, disassembler and binary data visualisation into a single tool.


About CodiLime

CodiLime provides professional IT consulting and software engineering services for global clients in three core areas: Networks, Security and Big Data Science & Deep Learning (through its deepsense.io subsidiary).

The company was established in 2011 by a group of Polish computer scientists and mathematicians with outstanding technical backgrounds and professional experience gained at leading global IT companies in Silicon Valley.

Currently, CodiLime is made up of approximately 200 carefully chosen team members (mostly software engineers and data scientists).

CodiLime clients such as NTT, Intel, NVIDIA, IBM, Nielsen, AT&T, Hitachi and Juniper Networks have come to rely on our team to provide them with the highest quality in services and products.


Source: CodiLime

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