HACKING THE PLANET - A DEFCON ICS CTF 2024 RETROSPECTIVE

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Maxwell Dulin's team won the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Capture the Flag (CTF) competition this year with a 37% lead over the next team. In this blog post, Dulin shares the team's winning strategies, which include focusing on in-person challenges during the day and solving offline challenges at night. Dulin's favorite challenge was turning on the lights for a smart city, which involved spoofing a device to control the lights.