ROWE CTF 11th May 2024:
The inaugural Rowan University and UWE Bristol (ROWE) Catch the Flag (CTF) saw students from both UWE Bristol and Rowan University, Delaware, New Jersey partake in a series of CTF challenges. From exploiting vulnerable service, solving cryptographic conundrums, analysing pcaps, digital forensics images to an open-source intelligence challenge where students were tasked with finding out as much information as they could from a single image.
UWE Bristol have established a strong collaborative partnership with Rowan University. Professor Fred Stinchcombe is Head of Cyber Security at Rowan University and UWE Bristol alumni from the 1990’s, who has worked with Professor Phil Legg and student representative Ian Caple to develop collaborative programme of events, and a shared online Discord community.
To this end UWE Bristol CTF Falcons challenged their counterparts on the other side of the pond to a CTF, designed by UWE’s technical team on this occasion (Alan Mills, Jon White and Ian Caple).
The event saw students beavering away tackling what was a considerable array of challenges in a race to capture as many flags as possible. UWE CTF Falcons student Mohamed Almarri (MSc Cyber Security) was successful in capturing the most number of flags on this occasion.
We look forward to many more international challenges with the students at Rowan University, as well as other universities throughout the UK.
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