In the aftermath of the fight that prevented PALINDROME's devastating return in TISC 2022, Singapore was saved from the brink of a digital catastrophe. This year, the pursuit led us right to the nemesis' lair to decimate PALINDROME's reign of terror, once and for all.
Participants completed a series of challenges across domains such as Pwn, Web Pen-Testing, Mobile Security, Forensics, Reverse Engineering, Binary Exploitation, OSINT, Cryptography, and Cloud Security.
Due to popular demand, participants were once again able to choose their own adventure between Track A or B for the challenge!
Upon unlocking Level 6, participants have the option to solve Reverse Engineering and Pwn challenges on Track A or Cloud and Web challenges on Track B. Both tracks would then converge again at Level 8.
TISC 2023 was held over 16 days, from 15 Sep 2023 (2100H) - 1 Oct 2023 (2100H).
PALINDROME's lair found and destroyed!
Valiant work by all the cybersecurity experts who had put up a truly epic fight! The war against PALINDROME finally came to an end as your strong cyber skills, perseverance, and wits helped to uncover and destroy PALINDROME's lair of operations.
With the end of PALINDROME's reign of terror, Singapore's infrastructure and cyberspace is safe once again... for now!
A total cash pool prize of S$30,000 was up for grabs. This year, we have more people obtaining cash prizes!
TISC 2023 cash prizes were awarded to these 18 worthy challengers:
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Level 10 ($4,167 per winner) |
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Name |
Total Time Taken |
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1 |
Lam Jun Rong |
10 days, 23 hours, 45 minutes and 41 seconds |
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2 |
Gerrard Tai Le Kang |
10 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes and 58 seconds |
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3 |
Choo Yi Kai |
12 days, 19 hours, 12 minutes and 57 seconds |
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4 |
Chai Yichen |
11 days, 5 hours, 2 minutes and 22 seconds |
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Level 9 ($1,667 per winner) |
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5 |
Ryan Loh Yong Chin |
8 days, 10 hours, 20 minutes and 33 seconds |
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6 |
Ou Yang Zhong Liang |
7 days, 23 hours, 53 minutes and 43 seconds |
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7 |
Yu Shiyang |
11 days, 4 hours, 31 minutes and 52 seconds |
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8 |
Verity Lim |
15 days, 1 hours, 59 minutes and 35 seconds |
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9 |
Lin Zewei |
15 days, 21 hours, 22 minutes and 11 seconds |
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Level 8 ($556 per winner) |
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10 |
Chang Si Yuan |
1 day, 3 hours, 20 minutes and 59 seconds |
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11 |
Chandrasekaran Akash |
1 day, 16 hours, 30 minutes and 27 seconds |
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12 |
Gabriel Seet Hoi Yee |
4 days, 1 hours, 5 minutes and 8 seconds |
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13 |
Liu Jie Xu |
12 days, 14 hours, 0 minutes and 30 seconds |
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14 |
Lucas Tan Yi Jie |
14 days, 17 hours, 51 minutes and 24 seconds |
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15 |
Lee Jia Jie |
14 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds |
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16 |
Lim Jin Hao |
15 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 20 seconds |
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17 |
Teo Wei Song |
15 days, 20 hours, 30 minutes and 31 seconds |
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18 |
Tan Wei Yang |
15 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes and 50 seconds |
Level 10 Winners:
Level 9 Winners:
Level 8 Winners:
Level 5 Challenge Creator: Billy Cao
Level 6B Challenge Creator: Aaron Ti
58 participants who solved level 5 to 10 in the shortest time received our Swag - Divoom Pro Bluetooth Speaker, T-shirt and laptop sticker!
Participants who completed at least level 4 received a digital badge indicating the highest level completed, which you can share on your LinkedIn or other social media pages.
All participants received a digital badge as a memento for your participation in TISC 2023.
Challenge Creators received this digital badge as a token of appreciation for creating challenges for TISC 2023.
Special category badge for participants who uncovered and flagged out an unintended solve during TISC 2023.
Here's the TISC 2023 Battle Report to summarise the exciting 16-day journey of the competition:
