Capture the Flag Competition Aims to Trace Missing Persons

Cyber professionals will compete to find leads in real missing persons cases in a competition in Washington, DC, next month. 

SANS Institute has teamed up with non-profit organization Trace Labs to host the Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Missing Persons Capture the Flag (CTF) in partnership with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.

Participants, working in teams of up to four people, will gather fresh intelligence on several specific missing persons cases from publicly available data on social media, forums, government records, and even the dark web.

Points will be awarded in exchange for each piece of data uncovered that was previously unknown to law enforcement. 

At the end of the contest, Trace Labs will generate an intelligence report from the OSINT, which will be passed to the law enforcement agencies responsible for these cases.

Up to seventy-five ethical hackers and information security professionals from within the SANS community are expected to compete at the event, which will take place December 13–14. 

The first ever crowdsourced OSINT for Missing Persons CTF event was held in Toronto on July 28, 2018. Since then, Trace Labs has partnered with law enforcement, not-for-profits, and industry conferences to run over 25 similar events across five countries, bringing together over 2,000 industry professionals to work on over 200 missing persons cases.

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