{"id":96,"date":"2024-06-11T10:36:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T09:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/?p=96"},"modified":"2024-06-11T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T09:36:50","slug":"transatlantic-cyber-contest-sees-success-for-uwe-falcons-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/transatlantic-cyber-contest-sees-success-for-uwe-falcons-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic cyber contest sees success for UWE Falcons students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ROWE CTF 11<sup>th<\/sup> May 2024:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rowan.edu\/\">Rowan University<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UWE Bristol have established a strong collaborative partnership with Rowan University. <a href=\"https:\/\/csm.rowan.edu\/departments\/cs\/facultystaff\/compsci_full_part\/stinchcombe.html\">Professor Fred Stinchcombe<\/a> is Head of Cyber Security at Rowan University and UWE Bristol alumni from the 1990\u2019s, who has worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/people.uwe.ac.uk\/Person\/PhilLegg\">Professor Phil Legg<\/a> and student representative Ian Caple to develop collaborative programme of events, and a shared online Discord community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To this end UWE Bristol CTF Falcons challenged their counterparts on the other side of the pond to a CTF, designed by UWE\u2019s technical team on this occasion (Alan Mills, Jon White and Ian Caple).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We look forward to many more international challenges with the students at Rowan University, as well as other universities throughout the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/transatlantic-cyber-contest-sees-success-for-uwe-falcons-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transatlantic cyber contest sees success for UWE Falcons students&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,7,13,18],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyber-crime","tag-catch-the-flag","tag-cyber-security","tag-uwe-bristol-research","tag-uwecyber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/cyber-security-cyber-crime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}