Past social engineering CTF competitions have targeted iconic firms like McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Google, Ford and Pepsi. The results of the contest have shown that even wealthy, sophisticated ...

Do they have what it takes to capture the flag? The 12 members of a new cyberteam will find out this fall, when four international teams meet at the Kunoichi Cyber Games to see whose cybersecurity ...

HONG KONG, CHINA--(Marketwired - Dec 5, 2016) - After stiff competition at the two-day finals of HITCON CTF 2016, Cykorkinesis from Korea won the championship and prize money of US$10,000, and will ...

HONG KONG, CHINA--(Marketwired - Sep 11, 2016) - HITCON CTF-- an international information security contest in Taiwan -- will begin in October. The global preliminary of 2016 HITCON CTF will take ...

Kaspersky is thrilled to announce the registration opening for its brand-new Kaspersky{CTF} competition, inviting academic and corporate teams from around the globe to compete in a battle of skill, ...

Walmart was the toughest nut to crack in last year's social engineering competition at the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas, but what a difference a year makes: This year, the mega-retailer ...

A Melbourne penetrator tester has run a capture the flag event giving away Bitcoins to those who beat web application challenges. The contest was the brainchild of Securus Global consultant Luke ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foreground Security today announced that three of its Security Analysts have qualified for the Capture the Flag (CTF) contest at DEFCON 18, from July 30 – August 1, ...

CSO gets a front row seat at this year's DEF CON Social Engineering Capture the Flag event, and watches just how quickly skilled SE's manage to finesse valuable private information out of unsuspecting ...

Social engineering has evidently earned a new level of respect from hacker community: For the first time, this year’s Defcon gathering in Las Vegas will feature a contest in which participants will ...