Where is the scoreboard?

Our scoreboard is at - https://ctf.bsidessf.net/scoreboard.

Registering a new user

Head to registration on the scoreboard, specify a username, email address and password.

Logging in

Head to the login page and login using the username and password you specified during registration.

Creating a new team

If you are playing by yourself, or with friends who don't have a team yet. You can create a new team by specifying the team name, team password and conference affiliation. The last field is mostly to identify if you are physically onsite and in turn prize eligibility.

Finding/Joining an existing team

If you would like to play with others but don't have a team, join our Discord and user the #find-a-team channel to find teammates. You can use the team password to join a team.

Accessing a challenge

Once you create/join a team, you can view the CTF challenges.

You can use the tags at the top to filter by challenge type. If you are new to CTFs, we recommend starting with the 101 challenges, which are geared towards beginners.

You can click on a challenge card to view details about the challenge. Our challenges are usually reachable by either web or command line. For your convenience, many of the terminal challenges have a web wrapper.

For example, clicking on the Web Terminal link will present you with,

The meow challenge is very beginner friendly, all you have to do is print the flag at /home/ctf/flag.txt. The challenge name hints towards the command line tool, cat.

You can access the contents of the flag using cat /home/ctf/flag.txt.

Submitting a flag

Go back to the challenge card and submit the flag. Most of our flags will follow the format CTF{}.

Another beginner friendly challenge is web-tutorial-1, a web challenge that has a short write-up here.