Capture the Flag: Meet the team bossing one of the toughest hacking competitions around

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http://www.zdnet.com/article/capture-the-flag-meet-the-team-bossing-one-of-the-toughest-hacking-competitions-around/

By Michiel van Blommestein
February 2, 2015

Nobody doubts that the amount of tech talent that Poland has at its 
disposal is substantial and a team of security specialists' triumph in the 
recent Capture the Flag series of hacking contests seems to confirm it's 
not short of ability, even when some parts of the country's own 
cybersecurity could use some improvement.

Poland's winning team was Dragon Sector, a group which currently consists 
of 13 active members from organisations including Google, the Polish CERT, 
as well as students.

In a whole series of events, Dragon Sector competed in various tasks to 
show their hacking prowess and cyberdefence skills. Among the challenges 
were solving a number of problems within a set time period, and gaining 
access to opposing servers while trying to keep their own network safe.

Out of the total 33 on-site events they attended, Dragon Sector won seven 
and took runner-up or third place for a further 18. Other recent 
high-profile wins for Dragon Sector include last year's Positive Hack Days 
Capture the Flat (CTF) in Moscow and Hack.lu CTF in Luxembourg.

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