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AmSU Cyber Team – the team of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department represented the university at the international student cybersecurity competition HIT CTF – 2021. The event of the Research Center of Computer Network and Information Security Technology of the Harbin Institute of Technology was held on November 13-14 in an online format.
The Amur State University team included Evgeny Maslakov (captain), Yegor Senashov, Maxim Pimkin and Vladislav Podstavnikov. The instructor of the team is Denis Fomin, senior lecturer of the Department of Information and Control Systems. Some participants took part in HIT CTF for the second time.
The competition was held in accordance with international CTF (Capture the flag) rules.
Denis Fomin (team leader) said: “The goal of the participants in this format of competition is to find a secret combination hidden in the program, website, data file or in the dump of information exchange between local or network devices”.
In contrast with last year, the competition tasks have become more complicated, but the AmSU team was also prepared better.
Maxim Pimkin – the team member – shared: “The tasks were very difficult: solutions were not at all obvious and always forced to doubt the proposed solution. However, it was a rewarding experience. Moreover, participation in HIT CTF allowed me to learn something new, and also have a good time with my teammates”.
As a result, AmSU students scored 100 points and took 35th place. In total, 46 teams from universities in Russia, China and other countries took part in the competition.
Through the competition, the members of the AmSU Cyber Team gained valuable experience, expanded their understanding in the field of information
Yegor Senashov – the team member – emphasized: “The competition was very interesting and also nontrivial. Each task contained “an intrigue”, the solutions were unobvious. Every section (reverse, crypto, web, pwn, misc) required serious preparation and a deep understanding of certain things in IT, the ability to use rare highly specialized tools, knowledge of not the most common programming languages, as well as an understanding of how many types of hacker attacks work”.
