ETeC 2024 Protectors of Progress
Accuracy Accuracy Accuracy
There is a large focus on being precise this year. While you will not be able to see your accuracy, it will be tracked and you will recieve bonus points for having better accuracy. And any ties will be settled by looking at accuracy. This simply means, be as sure of your answers as possible. Do not make wild guesses, as this will lower your chances of winning.
This year's CTF focuses on challenging your knowledge.
- Ensure you set your timezone to what a challenge specifies. Not all challenges require a timezone, but if you need to find the Date/Time something occurre, it could be important to pay attention to the timezone your computer is using. This is because some of the challenges will be looking for timestamps which are expected to be this specific timezone.
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Rules of the CTF
Breaking the rules can result in penalty points or becoming banned.
1. Use a non-production test environment to complete challenges. Later levels of the CTF can cause endpoint detections, this is why you should use only a test environment. All detections are benign.
2. Only one user account is allowed per person. If you forget your username and/or password, contact whoever is hosting the CTF and let them know the email address you used to register with.
3. Attempting to hack into any part of the CTF or Protect or Inspect servers, is not allowed and will result into an instant ban.
4. Rules can be added at any point of the CTF.
5. Any of our CTF masters has the power to see cheating, ane will ban those who try and win by using abusing the system.
Pro-Tips for the CTF
1. Do not use a production computer. While all challenges in the CTF are benign, there are some that will trigger ESET detections. To avoide confusion, do not use a production environment while participating in the CTF.
2. If you get stuck, you can use existing hints in the challenges. These will cost points to use, so use them wisely.
3. If you find you have used up hints on a challenge, and are still in need of assistance, ask your CTF Host. Asking your CTF Host for help will be treated as using a hint and points may be deducted from your overall score.
4. If you believe you have found a flag, but a challenge is not accepting it, please email your CTF Host with the (1)"Name of the challenge", (2)"The Flag you are supplying", and (3)"Justification or reasoning for why you believe it to be correct".
5. There are both standard flags "FLAG{SomeRandom_Text}" and non-standard flags "can be any string of text like a URL or file hash or other", but all flags are some form of text string.
6. All Inspect user accounts have "Read Only" rights. This means you will not be able to mark alarms as resolved or to create rules.