Transatlantic cyber contest sees success for UWE Falcons students

ROWE CTF eleventh Might 2024:

The inaugural Rowan College and UWE Bristol (ROWE) Catch the Flag (CTF) noticed college students from each UWE Bristol and Rowan College, Delaware, New Jersey partake in a collection of CTF challenges. From exploiting weak service, fixing cryptographic conundrums, analysing pcaps, digital forensics photographs to an open-source intelligence problem the place college students have been tasked with discovering out as a lot data as they might from a single picture.

UWE Bristol have established a robust collaborative partnership with Rowan College. Professor Fred Stinchcombe is Head of Cyber Safety at Rowan College and UWE Bristol alumni from the 1990’s, who has labored with Professor Phil Legg and scholar consultant Ian Caple to develop collaborative programme of occasions, and a shared on-line Discord neighborhood.

To this finish UWE Bristol CTF Falcons challenged their counterparts on the opposite facet of the pond to a CTF, designed by UWE’s technical crew on this event (Alan Mills, Jon White and Ian Caple).

The occasion noticed college students beavering away tackling what was a substantial array of challenges in a race to seize as many flags as doable. UWE CTF Falcons scholar Mohamed Almarri (MSc Cyber Safety) was profitable in capturing essentially the most variety of flags on this event.

We stay up for many extra worldwide challenges with the scholars at Rowan College, in addition to different universities all through the UK.