Defcon CTF prequals’09
For us it was impossible to imagine two years ago, when the “Sexy Pandas” concept was born, that this group of friends would become… well, whatever we are now xD Anyways, this two years have been amazing and we think it’s time to say thanks to you, all anonymous friends, that have been supporting us in so many different ways. Thanks!
And about this year’s prequals, we played hard in a competition controlled almost from start to end by Sk3wl and VodaGodz, but we did a good work during the last hours and scored a nice amount of points that allowed us to tie them. At the last moment (that sounds familiar…) Sk3wl solved pwn400 and got first place, we were almost done with that same exploit but time was over and we still have to train a bit those last-minute-pwnage skills.
As for the rest of the qualified teams (you can see the full list in the Defcon forums), all are well known and highly skilled friends so this year we are expecting one of the hardest CTF competitions ever.
That’s all folks, see some of you in Vegas and be ready for some awesomeness!
PS: Yes, we know there are some pending posts but, tempus fugit
Update: complete results at ddtek.biz
Well done, pandas!!!!!!!
Comment by tayoken — June 8, 2009 @ 15:32
Felicidades y mucha suerte en Las Vegas!!
Comment by Lluís Gómez — June 8, 2009 @ 17:09
Very good game Panda’s
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I look forward to any write-up’s you may have coming.
I’ll be getting my team together shortly so we(Sapheads) can do some Writeup’s.
Potent Pwnable’s seemed to be the hardest category, as I couldn’t get some of the binaries to function on my local VM’s. Still I had fun reversing them
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Sk3wl and VodkaGodz/VedaGodz seemed to have dominated the Potent Pwnable’s categories, so my respects to them(do some Write-up’s guys!)
I’d like to hear some of your view regarding the initial impression, given Kenshoto stepped down this yeah. Admittedly there were a few hiccups on Friday and the board seemed very slow, it didn’t help that only one user of a team could be logged in at any one time… But I have to admit ddtek did a very good job of pulling it all together in the end and resolving the issues.
I got a passive 4 hours rest over the 2 days and am now in the process of ‘getting back to normal’ :p.
We placed 11th this year, just behind WOWHACKER, but we’ll do better next year :p.
Great job all!
KOrUPt @ Sapheads.
Comment by KOrUPt — June 8, 2009 @ 17:27
Well done Sexy Pwndas!! Great job, you will deserve sleep 14 hours in a row
Henchido de orgullo con vosotros
P.
Comment by Popotxo — June 8, 2009 @ 19:48
Well done Sexy Pandas !
Don’t forget to comfirm your intent for playing in Vegas.
Qualified teams:
1. sk3wlm4st3r (CONFIRMED! as sk3wl0fr00t)
2. Team Awesome (aka VedaGodz) (CONFIRMED!)
3. Sexy Pwndas (unconfirmed)
4. PLUS (CONFIRMED!)
5. Shellphish (CONFIRMED!)
6. Song of Freedom (CONFIRMED!)
7. lollerskaterz dropping from roflcopters (CONFIRMED!)
8. Underminers (unconfirmed)
9. Routards (CONFIRMED!)
10. WOWHACKER (CONFIRMED!)
alt. Sapheads_ (CONFIRMED!)
alt. sutegoma (CONFIRMED!)
alt. CLiP (unconfirmed)
alt. pebkac (unconfirmed)
alt. ACMEPharm (unconfirmed)
Comment by n0p — June 11, 2009 @ 09:05