Facebook CTF

A Capture the Flag (CTF) event is a computer security competition that encourages players to solve security puzzles in a safe and controlled environment. The goal of these events is to further the education of security professionals and to promote Facebook's security culture. CTFs typically consist of challenge "levels" that represent real security issues found in networks and systems. The players will compete with each other, often in teams, to see who can solve these levels first and thereby win valuable points to progress up a leader-board. At the end of the game the team with the most points is declared the winner.

The Facebook CTF builds on our years of experience and combines classic attack techniques of penetration testing with defensive levels that require teams to patch the security flaws that they find to prevent other teams from exploiting them. In doing this they learn both offensive and defensive security skills while gaining points in a fast-paced real-time game. We provide levels that include challenges in reverse-engineering, web application security, network sniffing and basic system administration. Our goal is to expose players to the most common methods hackers use to break into systems, and then to think about how they would defend against these attacks.

Facebook CTFs are played in an isolated network that ensures that all of the players are on a level playing field. Facebook builds the game and the levels and welcomes players from all backgrounds and abilities to play!