The Final result of Student Contest on Information Security 2018

In the morning Nov 17th, 2018 the opening ceremony of the Final round of ASCIS 2018 officially took place. Attdending the ceremony consisted of:

  • Mr. Ngo Vi Dong – Vice president of VNISA and a member of Organizing committee
  • Mr. Tran Minh Triet – Vice president of VNUHCM – University of Natural Science
  • Mr. Bui Quang Huy – Deputy director of Digital Viettle Center based in the South and the representative of the primary sponsor

Apart from, the event was also attended by Cyber Command 86 and all contestants from 10 teams throughout the country.

Speaking at the event, Mr Dong claimed that Student Contest on Information Security is one the key activities which are essential for Vietnam Security Day’s series. The contest is organized with a view to recognizing talents in the field of IT. Therefore, all potential talents can be encouraged and developed enough to be dedicated in the field.

Mr. Dong speaking at the opening ceremony

As the reprentatives of Viettel and VNUHCM – University of Natural Science finishes their speech, Organizing committee summarised a little bit about the Qualifying round. Consequently, all successful teams in Qualifying round were about to compete in the last round – the Final round. At 09:35 a.m, the Final round officially began with 8 challenged including ECC-Return, WhatTheHack (Cryto); The trip, ROFL (Exploit); Lotus, Math Exam (Reverse); Custom Mall, Web01 (Web).

All teams were chasing each other to get scored as much as possible. In round 6 out of 72, team z3r0_n1ght (FPT University) beat Just Sdu It! and I3K_CLST successfully, then, it got the very first score. It is undoutable that team z3r0_n1ght was in the top of the competition after the first challenge with 122.680 points in total.

In next rounds, audience witnessed a striking move of other teams as they did thrust out of their ability to defeat their opponents. However, z3r0_night still succeeded in maintaining its top position as all rounds passed down.

The first prize was awared to z3r0_n1ght from FPT University

After 8 hours of competeing intensively, the contest 2018 finally found out its winners as following:

The first prize: z3r0_n1ght (FPT University)

The second prizes: ACT.Warriors (Vietnam Academy of Crytography Techniques), UIT.TKOX_r3b0rn (VNUHCM – University of Information Technology)

The second prizes were awarded to ACT.Warriors and UIT.TKOX_r3b0rn

The third prizes: ISITDTU (Duy Tan University), I3K_CLST (Hanoi University of Science and Technology) and PTIT_ONION (Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technologgy)

The Consultations were entittled to B-St4rl1ght (Hanoi University of Science and Technology), ISITDTU 2 (Duy Tan University), Just Sdu It! (VNU – University of Technology) and PTIT.Mars (Posts and Communications Institute of Technology based in HCMC)