CyberFusion

CyberFusion, while what everyone has used to refer to the competition, was a larger conference that surrounded the Cyber Cup. The conference consisted of a multiple-hour job fair with popular recruiters from groups such as AWS Security and Raytheon. After GMU got 4th last year, students were given more authority in terms of how to design the team roster. Ultimately, the competing team ended up being all CC members. They were coached by Dr. Jim Jones and Dr. Peggy Brouse. The competing team (along with their approximate specialties) were:

Ammar Al-Kahfah (Traffic Analysis)

Michael Bailey (Web, Traffic Analysis)

Paul Benoit (Crypto, Recon)

Chuck Tran (Reverse Engineering)

Chris Issing (Web, Reverse Engineering)

Chris Roberts (Reverse Engineering)

Doreen Joseph

Natalie Parke

Kang Xu

Steve Zamory

Place Group Score 1st GMU 1780 2nd VT 1435 3rd Radford 925 4th TCC 510 5th LFCC 460 6th JMU 400 7th NVCC 395

BSidesNOVA

There was also an observing team consisting of:It consisted of a variety of challenges, including web, crypto, reverse engineering, and even IoT.Multiple challenges CC solved such as Hidden, but a popular point of contention was the IoT challenge, one where there was a discrepancy in whether or not removing the SD card from a Raspberry Pi (worth 140 points) is considered a. Our decision was ultimately ruled as legal, but the action itself was retroactively banned. CC also made great connections, strengthening our relationship with a few colleges, including VT (2nd) and Radford (3rd).had an exceptionally good performance, getting just about all of the reverse engineering problems (split across two categories, "Bond", a sequence of problems, and Reverse Engineering, a traditional 'pick-em' format) with's advice.After the event an approximate table was dumped on Twitter with final scores, confirming the Raspberry Pi issue didn't result in a first place win:For more, see the gallery, our Flickr album , or potential press coming from GMU in the near future. Photographers were in attendance, but these articles are generally released directly after the event.Want to see the winner's announcement? See below, based on the linked Periscope video:

BSidesNOVA's Team CTF was an event taking place on the second day of the larger conference. They competed for $1,000 cash. They didn't win, but at a professional conference that can happen, especially with an incomplete roster. It was an attack/defend competition essentially that was incompatible with the experience with the team. It would've been a different story if it was Jeopardy, we're in limited supply of attack/defend members, so CyberFusion essentially meant it was pure jeopardy specialists. It did, however, motivate multiple attendees to further pursue training and the organization.

Taylor Cacciotti

Tyler Lambert

Brandon Wong

Naveed Yahya-Zadeh

Duc Tri Nguyen a.k.a cothan

Hung Mao Chen a.k.a 1pwnch

(Absent) Stephen Pirkey

(Absent) Connor Reguero

From that team, the debrief essentially revealed (rewritten quote):They experienced minor technical difficulties. It was heavily involving throwing metasploit and other Kali tools at open ports but it wasn't quite as trivial as that. There was an interesting scoring system that incorporated money and number of flags captured. When you captured a flag, you would get money and your total number of flags capped would increment. the other half of the challenge was running a "botnet" script on compromised machines. The longer you ran it the more money you would accumulate. Money could be spent on hints. They all had fun a learned a bit about metasploit so no one regrets going and we all had a good time.For pictures from the event, see our Gallery at the link above or our Flickr album