K!nd4SUS FAQ

This section addresses common questions regarding the Team. For further inquiries, please contact the Team directly.

How do I join?

To join K!nd4SUS, please subscribe to the official groups. Communications are managed through the Telegram News channel, while the main chat is hosted in the Telegram Main Group.
On Discord, we convene for competitions and on thursday evenings at 9:00 PM (CET 21:00) to solve challenges, discuss, and delve into specific topics.

You may contact the team email without hesitation: [email protected] for any queries or for answers to supplementary questions not found on the website. Alternatively, our website’s contact page provides cards with all active contacts and Team roles.

Any rules to follow?

Before you join, make sure you read our guidelines.

Any useful resources?

Click here to consult the list of useful resources. We have compiled conferences, websites, training materials, and applications for practice or learning.

What does “CTF” mean?

CTFs (Capture the Flag) are a specialized type of computer security competition. There are three common types of CTF: Jeopardy, Attack-Defence, and Hybrid.

Jeopardy-style CTFs present a series of questions (challenges) across various categories, such as Web Security, Reverse Engineering, Network Security, Crypto, Pwning, or others. Teams earn points for each successfully solved challenge, with scores varying based on difficulty. At the conclusion of the game time, the sum of points determines the CTF winner. A prominent example of this type of CTF is the qualifications for the DEFCON CTF.

Attack-Defence-style CTFs represent another competition format. Each team is provided with its own network (or merely a host) featuring vulnerable services. Teams are given time to patch their services and develop exploits. Subsequently, the organizers connect the participants, and the game commences! Teams must protect their own services to earn defense points while simultaneously attacking opponents to gain attack points.

Historically, this was the original type of CTF, and the DEFCON CTF is considered a kind of World Cup for all other competitions.

CTFs engage many other aspects of information security. Courtesy of CTFTime.

What’s CyberChallenge.IT?

CyberChallenge.IT, a training program for young talents between 16 and 24 years of age, is the primary Italian initiative for identifying, attracting, recruiting, and placing the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.

Participation does not require programming experts but instead necessitates great passion, commitment, and curiosity in STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Logical skills, problem-solving abilities, communication skills, and, above all, a strong willingness to learn are also required.

Since 2020, CyberChallenge.IT has been recognized by the Ministry of Education as a project for the enhancement of excellence; through these projects, the Ministry identifies initiatives and methods for recognizing levels of excellence achieved by secondary school students.

Courtesy of CyberChallenge.IT.

What’s CyberCup?

CyberCup is a Capture The Flag tournament comprising various events selected from available international competitions. All registered teams (with no limit on the number of participants), including newly formed ones, are eligible to participate.

The competition features a team ranking, where scores depend on performance in each selected competition. CyberCup events are carefully chosen based on quality and difficulty level by a technical committee. Higher priority is given to competitions organized by Italian universities and CTF teams. The events are designed with balanced difficulty to accommodate both less experienced and highly prepared teams.

Courtesy of CyberCup.

How do I participate?

To participate, you simply need to be a member of the team and be present on our Discord server on the days of the competition.

Collaborating

Publishing a Blog Post

If you have articles you would like to publish on the blog, contact us by email or Samuele (President) on Telegram.

Idea or Suggestion (CTF/event/activity)

Please contact any member of the committee or the group email. We will contact you with further instructions. The contact page on our website contains cards with all active contacts and the Team roles.

Collaborating in Projects

Keep an eye on the Telegram News group chat! A message will be published whenever a new project commences. You can then proceed by following the instructions provided.

If you don’t have access to the team GitHub, please ask the responsible project manager to grant you access to the specific repository. Access to the entire organization is reserved exclusively for organizers and members who are particularly active in both development and CTFs.