Root the Box X will be held live May 7th at CactusCon 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona. (The second day of the conference, not the first) Bring your laptop and join us 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM at Phoenix Convention Center for a fun, free, and accessible team-based computer security challenge targeted towards beginner and intermediate level hackers.
What should I bring to Root the Box XI?
At a minimum, bring the following
* = There will be a Wi-Fi hacking challenge this year, so bring your Wi-Fi hacking gear. If you don't have any (or forget yours) there will be some to borrow from the organizers.
We recommend downloading any security tools you may need before the competition. Root the Box focuses primarily on web application and network security.
Teams of 4!
Bring three of your friends and hack the planet. If you don't have enough hackers for a full team or want to come solo, that's cool too. Just come by and we can put you on a team. Want to hack everything all on your own? Go for it!
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Click here to register for free!
The new Root the Box site is live! We think it looks amazing and would like to say thanks to David Mayman for all of his sleepless nights! Tell us what you think of the new site on Twitter.
A major update has just been merged into master! Version 0.6.0 brings a lot of cool new features and fixes. I`ve added a content-security-policy, improved the command line interface, as well as added support for Pypy just to name a few. Could be a few bumps in the new code, so if you run into any be sure to file a bug report on GitHub!
Yes, Root the Box is distributed under the Apache v2 open source license. We also welcome code contributions, and bug fixes. Fork us on Github.
Root the Box is primarily written in Python using the Torando web framework. The database layer uses SQL Alchmey and the front-end contains a good bit of JavaScript.
There is some documentation on our GitHub wiki and we're adding more all the time. The source code is also quite heavily documented internally using Python's docstrings.
Version 0.6.0 and later offically suport PyPy.
Date: March 13th, 2015
Location: CactusCon 2015 at ASU Memorial Union - Tempe, AZ
Time: 10:00AM - 4:00PM
Root the Box is a CTF-style computer security competition which is aimed at beginner to intermediate-level participants. Teams will compete to solve a series of realistic web and network-based security challenges. Each challenge, or "Box" contain flags which earn points when submitted to the Root the Box scoring engine. The team with the most points at the end of the competition is the winner.
A team can have up to 4 members, although you are welcome to try by yourself. If you'd like to be placed on a team, Root the Box staff will do their best to coordinate teams the day of the event.