Intel Management Engine (ME) technology has been around for over 10 years (since 2005), but it seems impossible to find any official information about ME on the Internet. Fortunately, some studies have been published in recent years; however, all of them deal with ME 10 and earlier, while modern computers implement ME 11 (introduced in 2015 for Skylake microarchitecture). In his presentation, he will explain in detail how ME 11 stores its state on the flash and the other types of file systems that are supported by ME 11.

Last in timetable, but not least talk: The ARTist Framework – Modding and Analyzing Android & Apps for Fun and Profit by Oliver Schranz from saarsec team.
This talk will introduce you to the ARTist instrumentation framework that can be used to analyze and customize Android apps and other Java parts of the operating system. It combines ease of deployment, non-invasiveness and instruction-level instrumentation support, while aiming at developers and end users alike. By the end of the talk, you will have an understanding what problems ARTist can solve and how to write your first own module.

Oliver Schranz is a founding member of the saarsec CTF team, Ph.D. student at the Center for IT Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA, Saarland University) and a security analyst at the Backes SRT GmbH company. His research mainly focuses on application-layer security solutions for Android that abstain from modifying the operating system.

Teams are rapidly coming to Yekaterinburg, which means it's time to tell you about our traditional quest. This year we start at 6:30 p.m. Register your team here: https://goo.gl/forms/CF1ITSmsK0IiGWhU2

— 10 years ago, discussing distributed systems of processing and storage data, we thought about theoretical calculations and possibility to organise coherence, availability and resilience of data to separation. Time was going by, our priorities changed: CAP theorem isn't already covering all the details of how modern systems work, and ideas suggested by Blockchain technology allow to satisfy the needs of products' functioning.
— Eugeny Andryukhin, expert investigator of company "Perspective Monitoring"

Tomorrow we'll be having Eugeny's presentation in which he will tell about current state of security in Permissioned Blockchain networks and perspectives of development in this direction. In the presentation there will also be mentioned general mistakes in understanding current Distributed Ledger Technology systems, considered solutions and possibilities of their regulation within the bounds of "Programmable Economy". Presented their disadvantages and advantages of both network topology and architecture, and consensus model and implementation of platform functioning with different data types. There will be demonstrated an example of implementation on basis of DLT platform Apla.

Morning to everyone! Teams are already coming to the registration, which means pretty soon we are opening RuCTF.

Btw, full timetable of RuCTF is now avaliable in ics: live.ructf.org/2018.ics

We keep on with opening! Organizers and sponsors wish participants luck

Some guys are busy with their own things :)

And finally RuCTF 2018 is opened!

Very soon the first presentation will start, but for now we should announce the changes in schedule. Pranker Lexus couldn't make it here. At 17:00 instead will be a presentation about hacking scanners by Oleg Kupreev.