Congratulations! You have been hand-selected to compete in the Kenshoto Capture the Flag 2006 Qualifying Rounds. You and your teammates will be tasked with correctly answering as many questions as possible between Friday 10:00 PM EST and Sunday 11:59 PM EST. There are five categories to choose from: - Binary L33tness - Web Hacking - Potent Pwnables - Forensics - Trivia There are five levels in each category, valued at 100 to 500 points. Answer correctly, and your team will gain the number of points associated with that question. Choose carefully, however, as if you are unable to answer a question, you will be forced to abandon it and your team will *LOSE* the number of points associated with that question. WARNING: Progression of difficulty between levels is not linear. But they are sorted in difficulty order, by our estimation. Level 100 questions have been known to be answered correctly by accident. Questions valued at 500 may be nearly impossible. Each of the categories focuses on a particular discipline in the hackosphere. A quick overview: - Binary L33tness: Reverse engineering with a focus on determining or reproducing existing functionality. - Web Hacking: Just what it sounds like. There's a website that doesn't want anything to do with you, and you want to fuck it up. Use your skills and make it happen. - Potent Pwnables: Remote exploitation, pure and simple. Some items in this list may provide a binary for analysis, while others may not. - Forensics: For the "Certified Ethical Hackers" in the crowd, *cough*SANS*cough*, we've included this extremely challenging category. - Trivia: Know your profession / hobby. Random useless facts we arbitrarily deemed important enough for you to know. All target services *WITHOUT EXCEPTION* will be running on the box kenshoto.allyourboxarebelongto.us. All services and vulnerabilities are custom, so do not waste your time or our precious log space with your bullshit Nessus scans. If you have any questions or difficulties, one or more members of Kenshoto will be available on the Quals MUD at kbox.kenshoto.com:7878. Decisions made by any Kenshoto member are final. The quals will be available at 10 PM sharp. You will find your username and password below. They can be used at http://www.kenshoto.com:1337/ Good luck, and have fun. -k