In the fight to ‘find errors in the software’ or digital world, Rag hunt (Riot Center Flag Hunt), the team Genesis of Islamic University of Technology (IUT) has become championed. The team became champion by getting 2600 ‘points’ in the allotted time in this ‘hack’ which was organized offline for the first time. Under the leadership of Imtiaz Ahmed Choudhury, a teacher in the computer science and engineering department of the university, the other members of this team was Shantanu Rahman, Sumit Alam Khan and Abdullahil Kafi.
‘Bonk Police’ became the first runner-up in this Battle of Hackers by competing with 29 teams that participated in the final phase. The members of this team consisting of Cyber Warriors from several colleges and universities. Habibur Rahman of BGG Trust University Bangladesh, Sheikh Ali Akbar of Brahmanbaria Government College, Kazi Ashikur Rahman of Noakhali Science and Technology University and Md. Golam Rabbi of Rajshahi Medical University jointly recovered 2080 flags. Cyber Security Enthusiast is the second runner-up with 1880 flags found. This cyber army of three students of Islamic University of Technology (IUT) are NM Atiqur Rahman, Ishtiaq Uddin Chowdhury and Md Rezwan.
Contestants had to prove their practical engineering skills in web exploitation, digital forensics, crypto currency, steganography and reverse engineering in this cyber warfare competition held at the permanent campus of Independent University (IUB) in Bashundhara on Saturday.
Cyber security organization CTF Community Bangladesh jointly organized the competition with IUB’s research organization CIA Riot (Center for Industrial Automation Robotics & Internet of Things).
Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB) vice-chancellor Dr Tanveer Hasan handed over the prizes to the winners of this cyber capability verification competition which lasted for six and a half hours. Faisal Mohammad Uddin, head of Center of Industrial Automation Robotics and Intern of Thinks Research Center and CTF Community Bangladesh founder Amir Hamza Tasdir Ahmed, Russel Ahmed and all the admin panel of CTF BD were present at that time.
