Earlier this week, UMBC CyberDawg Christopher Gardner took first place out of approximately fifty competitors at Booz Allen Hamilton's Kaizen Capture The Flag event held at the Jailbreak Brewing Company in Laurel, MD.

The event focused around navigating through a series of progressively harder cybersecurity obstacles. The challenge's theme centered around a narrative that competitors were assisting the FBI in finding and then defusing a bomb. Competitors needed to complete a series of increasingly harder challenges to locate clues and other information, such as examining an Android .apk to find a wireless access point password, finding the login page for website's administration panel, and gaining access to a web server's log directory.

Congratulations again to Christopher and to all of the CyberDawgs who competed!

Interested in joining the CyberDawgs? Contact Julio Valcarcel ( julio3@umbc.eduSorry, you need javascript to view this email address. ) for more information — they’re always looking for new members heading into the 2015-2016 season!