The inaugural C2C (C2C 2020) was an online event organized by Royal Holloway, University of London, on December 6th 2020 (0:00-24:00 UTC)

Congrats to all participants!

C2C Background

Global Capture-the-Flag

The Country-to-Country (C2C) CTF competition is a five-year plan of INCS-CoE to host cyber-security competitions in five different countries. C2C will extend past experiences and lessons learnt from the successful Cambridge2Cambridge.

Philosophy

C2C will be an exciting opportunity for students to work together as international teams to solve interesting CTF challenges, while learning new skills, socialising, and promoting international collaboration and friendship.

C2C 2020

The inaugural C2C 2020 was an online event organized by Royal Holloway, University of London, on December 6th 2020 (0:00-24:00 UTC).

Eligibility

Students should be full-time enrolled in University courses at UG/PG/PhD level. Applications will be considered from universities invited by INCS-CoE, which are currently based in the UK, USA, Japan, Israel, France and Australia.

C2C 2020: Selection Criteria and Funding

The International C2C Committee will select up to 200 students from the received applications, with which we intend to create diverse teams for the competition. We aim to select competitors from a broad range of backgrounds, nationalities, languages, genders, experiences and cyber-security skills. We seek motivated and resourceful participants who enjoy a tough intellectual challenge in a cooperative international context -- we are not merely looking at experts who have won other hacking competitions before.

C2C 2020: Important Dates

  • 1st October 2020 (23:59:59 UTC): Deadline for students to apply
  • 4th October 2020: Notification to students
  • 5th-9th October 2020: Registration open for accepted students
  • 20th October 2020: Dry run (starts 9:30am AEST and will remain available for 72 hours)
  • 6th December 2020: Main event (0:00 - 24:00 UTC)
  • 10th December 2020: Award Ceremony (12:00 -14:00 UTC)

C2C 2020: Challenge Types

  • Reverse Engineering
  • Cryptography
  • Steganography
  • Scripting
  • Forensics
  • Boot2root

C2C 2020: Rules, Regulations, Ethics of the Competition

Available here.

C2C 2020: Awards

  • 1st Team: £2,000 + RSA event ticket + award certificate
  • 2nd Team: £1,000 + award certificate
  • 3rd Team: £500 + award certificate
  • Every participant: participation certificate

C2C 2020: Final leaderboard

  • 1st place: BONTS (Team Number 24)
    • Tarun Patel (Edith Cowan University)
    • Birk Tjelmeland (University of Cambridge)
    • Oliver Wales (University of Cambridge)
    • Daniel Getter (George Mason University)
    • Marcel Armour (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  • 2nd place: 0x45 (Team Number 10)
    • Simon Fabian Schwarz (University of Cambridge)
    • Ksenia Budykho (University of Surrey)
    • Ian Palmer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    • James Whaley (Royal Holloway, University of London)
    • Michael Shafir (Ben-Gurion University)
  • 3rd place: Anonymouse (Team Number 23)
    • Jorge Sanz (University of Edinburgh)
    • Asaf Rubinfeld (Technion)
    • Euan Ong (University of Cambridge)
    • Tibor Sárvári (University of Cambridge)
    • Jose Mejia - Arevalo (George Mason University)
The full leaderboard is available here.

C2C Organizers

Hosting Universities (5-year Plan)
UK Royal Holloway, University of London -- C2C 2020 Project Lead and Host
IL Technion – Israel Institute of Technology -- C2C 2021
US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (CSAIL)
JP Keio University
AU Edith Cowan University

Steering Committee
INCS-CoE International Cyber Security – Center of Excellence (INCS-CoE)
Edith Cowan University Edith Cowan University
George Mason University George Mason University
Keio University Keio University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (CSAIL) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (CSAIL)
Royal Holloway, University of London Royal Holloway, University of London
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
University of Cambridge University of Cambridge
University of Maryland Baltimore County University of Maryland Baltimore County

Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

INCS-CoE International Cyber Security – Center of Excellence (INCS-CoE)
National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Royal Holloway, University of London Royal Holloway, University of London

Silver Sponsors

DCMS Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS)
Gemserv Gemserv
RSA RSA Security

TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM PROVIDER

Fifth Domain - Securing Cyber Skills Fifth Domain - Securing Cyber Skills

Promo Video

Contact Info

To check the eligibility of your university, or for any other related queries on C2C 2020 (e.g., sponsoring), please contact info at c2c-ctf dot org.