Weekend security training with a lot of great prizes

Apr 1, 2014 14:13 GMT  ·  By

CTF365, the innovative capture the flag platform that promotes IT security training through gamification mechanics, has announced Hacker’s Dome – First Blood.  Hacker’s Dome is a weekend CTF competition in which CTF365 users can win various prizes. It’s a weekend security training in which users can deploy their own capture the flag competitions and invite others to take part in them.

First Blood is the first CTF part of Hacker’s Dome. It starts on May 17, 2014 at 15:00 UTC. The prizes included in this CTF, which is catalogued as being of low-to-medium difficulty, are worth over $6,000 (€4,350).

First place prizes include a WiFi Pineapple Mark V Ultra Bundle and premium access to CTF365 for one year. Second place gets a WiFi Pineapple Mark V Tactical Bundle and premium access to CTF365 for half a year. The second runner-up is rewarded with a WiFi Pineapple Mark V Travel Bundle and three months of free premium access to CTF365.

All winners get Hacker’s Dome and Hacker’s Dome – First Blood stickers, and personalized t-shirts and hats.

In addition to these prizes, there’s also a raffle sponsored by Rapid7. The raffle King Prize is a full year license for Metasploit Pro. Other raffle prizes include four Raspberry PIs, Hacker’s Dome hats and Hacker’s Dome t-shirts.

For additional details and registration, check out the Hacker’s Dome website.