17/03/2025
KSUAE student team entered the world top 20 in cybersecurity
The KSUAE team of students on cybersecurity "BARS" took 20th place among 139 participating teams in the WatCTF world championship. Our university was represented by a team of bachelors of the Department of Digital Road Technologies: Vadim Akhmadishin, Vadim Baranov, Marat Gatin, Maxim Kotov, Ildan Khaibullin.
CTF (Capture the Flag) is an information security competition with tasks in several areas: - Cryptographic tasks (decrypting messages, cracking ciphers, creating your own cryptosystems and analyzing cryptographic protocols); - Search for vulnerabilities in software products, websites or networks (exploitation of vulnerabilities, detection of SQL injections, XSS and other types of attacks); - Reverse engineering (tasks requiring binary code analysis, program decompilation, search for hidden functions and restoration of source code from binary files); - Forensics or digital forensics (tasks related to analyzing digital traces, recovering deleted data, identifying users based on their digital footprints, and analyzing malware); - Networks and security (tasks that test skills in configuring and managing network devices, configuring firewalls, detecting and eliminating network attacks); - Penetration testing or penetration testing (tasks that simulate real attacks on information systems, including port scanning, password guessing, exploiting vulnerabilities, and analyzing network traffic); - OSINT or open source intelligence (tasks that require collecting information from open sources to solve a problem, such as determining IP addresses, domains, email addresses, and other information).
In March, the students will take part in the international open competition VOLGA CTF link https://volgactf.ru/
Information and cybersecurity skills will be useful to students of the Department of Digital Road Technologies in their future professional activities to protect intelligent transport systems (ITS).
The News is submitted by International Relations Dept of the University.