Students from Ocean University of China win First Prize in the 15th National College Students' Information Security Competition Innovation and Practice Ability Contest
Publishing time：2022-08-09
On August 23-24, 2022, the 15th National College Students' Information Security Competition Innovation and Practice Ability Contest was successfully held, hosted by the Teaching Guidance Committee for Network Space Security Majors in Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education and organized by Nankai University. The Blue-Whale Information Security Research Team from the College of Information Science and Engineering at Ocean University of China represented our university and won the first prize nationwide with a group ranking of 7th. The team's mentor, Qu Haipeng, received the Outstanding Mentor Award.
The National College Students' Information Security Competition is the highest-level and most influential network security competition for college students in China. This year's competition attracted 2,218 teams from various universities across the country to participate. After online preliminary rounds and regional competitions, 82 outstanding teams were selected to enter the national finals. In the end, 22 teams won the first prize nationwide, and the award ceremony was presented by Professor Feng Huamin, Secretary-General of the Teaching Guidance Committee for Network Space Security Majors in Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education.
Our Blue-Whale team organized training and internal competitions in advance, and sent two teams to participate in the competition, both of which successfully advanced from the preliminary rounds. In the East-North (Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong) Regional Competition, the StudentUnion team composed of Chen Zhongyuan and Sun Yingli, undergraduate students majoring in Computer Science and Technology in 2019, Shi Rui, a master's student majoring in Computer Science and Technology in 2020, and Wang Yuxiao, an undergraduate student majoring in Communication Engineering in 2018 and a master's student majoring in Computer Science and Technology in 2022, successfully advanced to the finals (4th place in the regional competition). Due to the epidemic, the national finals underwent a delay and a change in format to an online competition. However, the students from Ocean University of China overcame adverse factors and consistently ranked among the top in the two-day national finals.
The Blue-Whale Information Security Research Team was founded in 2012, based on the Information Security Laboratory of Ocean University of China. The team focuses on research in the field of information security, including binary security, web security, cryptography, etc. Since its inception, the Blue-Whale team has always aimed to cultivate interest in information security and research and share knowledge and technology related to information security (commonly known as hacker technology).
In recent years, the team has discovered over a hundred open source software vulnerabilities and assisted with security updates. They have published academic papers in academic journals and conferences such as TIFS, TCS, Computer&Security, ISSRE, SANER, and shared their technical research at industrial security conferences such as Black Hat and HITB. They have also won prizes in industrial security competitions such as GeekPwn, WCTF, BCTF, TCTF and various college student security competitions. In addition, they have jointly organized security competitions such as AutoPwn sub-station competition, QCTF, etc., with partners like Baidu Security, XCTF, and have also carried out joint training programs with Tencent, Baidu, Qi An Xin, and ChangTing to deliver excellent information security talents for the country and society.
