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PeCan+CTF 22 WA vs SA vs Tas vs ACT (vs QLD)

Tuesday, 04 October 2022

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PeCan+ is a jeopardy-style, capture the flag event where teams of four work through various challenges at the beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Since its inception in 2019, it has grown from being just two locations to five. Originally developed as a competition between Perth and Canberra hence the name PeCan, this year’s event welcomed new entrants from South Australia and Tasmania. An invitation was sent to a Brisbane based high school to compete and upon Canberra registrations it was noted that a NSW team had entered as well driving from Camden to Canberra to compete.

Opportunities realised from PeCan+ was that ECU students were now partnering with other universities to run the event. In addition to the hosting, groups of university cyber security students collaborated in developing the content for the workshops and the writing of the cyber challenges. The exchange of information and ideas was a huge achievement with respective lecturers overseeing their work.

The planning and preparation for Pecan+ began 12 months ago. Led by ECU’s Dr Michelle Ellis, strongly coordinated by cyber student Blair Johnston (ECU’s Red Room coordinator) and Canberra based cyber security professional Mr Tom Plant. The trio were responsible for finding sponsors, working with schools/teachers, setting up the GitHub accounts and structures, testing challenges and the build of a new PeCan+ CTF platform (rCTF), that engaged with GitHub and Azure Labs (Tom -master craftsman).

Saturday was a training day where students learnt how to use th CTF environments and complete cyber challenges. Sunday was the competition.

In Perth, prizes were given to each of the placegetters by Minister Stephen Dawson (Minister for Emergency Services; Innovation and ICT; Medical Research; Volunteering) Cecily Rawlinson (Director of WA AustCyber Innovation Hub) and Professor Paul Haskell Dowland (Associate Dean School of Science: Computing and Security).

Congratulations to all the competitors!

Beginners

  • 1st place - Undefined – (Adelaide)
  • 2nd place - Canberra Team 11 – (Canberra)
  • 3rd place - Little Looyen Lovers Camden NSW (Canberra)
  • 4th place - Eddies Little Monsters (Canberra)

Intermediate

  • 1st place - Obsidian'); DROP TABLE Participants;: Shenton College (Perth)
  • 2nd place - Access Denied - Holy Cross College (Perth)
  • 3rd place – Perth Modern Team 21 – (Perth)
  • 4th place - CCGS - ChristChurch Grammar – (Perth)

Advanced

  • 1st place – Pissed Emu- Perth Modern – (Perth)
  • 2nd place - N3RDZ V3T3rRNZ (Canberra)
  • 3rd place - h4sh_4_c4sh Kelvin Grove (Brisbane)

Bought to you by @Edith Cowan University, @University of Adelaide, @University of Tasmania, @University of Canberra and Australian National University.

Sponsored by AustCyber (WA, SA, Tas, ACT Nodes), Australian Signals Directorate, Microsoft, Trustwave, Cyber CX, Canva, Bunnings (cyber security operations), Cisco, ES2 and Seamless Intelligence.

Workshop presenters included ASD/JCSC, ParaFlare – Bex Nitert and Ginger Akers, ES2 - Steve Simpson, and Canva – Sri Devalpally and Raymond Schippers.

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