Category: Events

Well, it’s time again for CyberCenturion. After getting two out of three teams into the CyberCenturion III final, we had high hopes of getting our teams into the 4th CyberCenturion competition, out of the 500-or-so teams taking part this year. While there had been some shuffling of the team members since the last competition, most […]

Well, after all of the hard work to get through the competition rounds, it was time for the national final! Out of the three teams that our school had entered, we’d managed to get two into it. Up against them were eight other teams from schools around the country. This was going to be a […]

After the last few posts of things completely unrelated to computers, it’s back to business with round 3 of CyberCenturion. And what a tough round it was! The American teams seemed to say that it was difficult, so our teams were able to brace themselves, but there were so many things needed to be completed. […]

Well, this round was certainly harder than the last one. Everyone agreed with that. This time around there were three images: Windows Server 2008, Windows 8 and Ubuntu 14.04. While the students had been able to practice with these operating systems outside of the competition rounds and get used to them, it’s more difficult under […]

The first actual round of the CyberCenturion competition started off this weekend, and our teams (17, 18, 19) took part on Friday. After what seemed to be quick starts for two of them, they plateaued for a number of hours trying to solve the last one or two items in the images. Out third team […]

The practice rounds were sent out this week, which are the final set of images you get to play with before the actual competition rounds start. The main difference between these and the introductory round images is that there’s no answer key in them, which makes them seem closer to the actual ones that you […]

Following on from the initial images for the 2016 – 2017 CyberCenturion competition, the Ubuntu images were available earlier this week for everyone to have a go with. While I can complete the Windows images and fix them pretty quickly, I’m not so good on the Ubuntu ones – some of the students are though. […]

Last year, our school participated in the CyberCenturion challenge. To quote from their website: Are you age 12-18 and enjoy puzzles, code breaking and cyber? Then our CyberCenturion competition could be just the thing for you. What this involves is running a virtual machine with either Windows or Ubuntu and “fixing” security problems with it. […]