Carnegie Mellon Team Wins Computer Security Competition

Byron SpiceThursday, April 14, 2011

Carnegie Mellon's Plaid Parliament of Pwning team won CodeGate2011, an international computer security competition known as a Capture the Flag (CTF) event, hosted by the Korean "Ministry of Knowledge Economy." CodeGate takes place in two stages: an online pre-qualification round and a final round hosted in Seoul, Korea. Team representatives and computer science majors Brian Pak, Andrew Wesie, Tyler Nighswander and Ricky Zhou traveled to Korea for the final round to compete against teams from Korea, Japan, Sweden and the United States. This is the second CTF event the team has won this academic year. The team has qualified for DefCon, the most famous CTF competition held annually in Las Vegas. For more information, visit the team's blog at http://ppp.cylab.cmu.edu.

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