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0	5940	...top cybersecurity talent to develop the skills necessary to secure this last frontier of
5940	14020	cybersecurity, space. And already we've made a ton of progress. I'll catch you up. This spring we
14020	18900	hosted over 2,000 teams who worked their way through a set of foundational space cybersecurity
18900	25580	challenges in our HackASAT qualification round. Now eight finalist teams are stepping up to the
25580	40710	ultimate challenge. They are hacking a satellite. Welcome to Space Security Challenge 2020,
40710	45550	or HackASAT. I'm your host, Jordan Wines, and I'm very excited to be with you today.
45550	51310	I'm here in Melbourne, Florida, at HackASAT HQ, where eight satellites are spinning out of control
51310	59150	as the teams do their best to restore functionality, all for a piece of a $100,000 prize pool.
59150	64270	These teams from 11 different countries around the world include not only some that are very
64270	69530	familiar to those of us from the Capture the Flag, or CTF, community, but also include
69530	75170	many newcomers who assembled just to answer the call for HackASAT. Let's meet our teams.
116310	122350	To get to this final event, individuals on these eight teams had to beat out over 6,000 other
122350	127350	competitors for a coveted invitation. This required mastery not only in traditional CTF
127350	132690	hacking skills, like reverse engineering and vulnerability research, but also in areas new
132690	139330	to the CTF community, including orbital mechanics, astrophysics, space-based communication systems,
139330	145090	and many others. Today and tomorrow, each of our eight teams will race the others through
145250	150790	a series of challenges to regain control over their Flatsat. If you followed our story at
150790	157970	hackasat.com and launch.com.com, you might know that through some bad code and poor business
157970	163410	choices, our defunct launch.com company has accidentally triggered a satellite intended
163410	169890	for the year 2000 to be launched in 2020 with no one in control. In our fictional storyline,
169890	174410	this satellite has been co-opted by nefarious forces, and it's up to our competitors to regain
174410	180730	control over the many components. Since qualifying, each team was shipped a physical Flatsat,
180730	186050	and these Flatsats are not only prizes for their qualifying performance, but also allow the teams
186050	191310	to become familiar with the hardware and software before this final event. So what's the difference
191310	196870	between a satellite and a Flatsat? Think of a Flatsat as a bench version for testing components
196870	202250	of an actual satellite without necessarily being exactly what you would send into space.
202250	207610	The satellites you can watch in our live webcams are Flatsats, but don't worry,
207610	212830	not all of the competition this weekend will be terrestrial. The game has actually been underway
212830	218250	for one hour now, and our team's first challenge has been to regain control of the ground station
218250	223410	that they'll be using to communicate with their Flatsats. Being good hackers, of course, we call
223410	232090	this Challenge Zero. Challenge Zero. Here's what we know. An adversary has obtained access to the
232090	238390	satellite's ground station. Once they obtained access, they kicked us out. The challenge? Teams
238390	251120	must obtain network access to the ground station. This is called Challenge Zero because it's required
251120	256820	for the teams to even kick the game off. While most of our challenges will have teams focusing
256820	262300	on components that are inside of their Flatsats, Challenge Zero is all about gaining access to the
262300	267740	ground station that they'll be using to communicate with their Flatsat. And again, this is not a
267740	272960	simulation. All of these eight Flatsats may be here on Earth, but they're completely untethered,
272960	277800	floating on a cushion of air, and each one being connected wirelessly from a separate radio link.
277800	282900	In the first hour of gameplay, teams have been getting their bearings and working on solving
282900	288720	Challenge Zero. In fact, just before this broadcast went live, we received word that this challenge
288720	295240	was actually solved by Team Samurai. Congratulations to them. Let's go ahead and see a little bit more
295240	330240	about Team Samurai. Team Samurai is a mainstay in the CTF community. In fact, one of the fun
330240	334860	facts about this community is that I've competed against Samurai about as many times as I've
334860	339220	actually competed with them. This community is tight-knit, people move around between them,
339220	344120	and it's good to see them jump into the lead and take a start on the scoreboard. They're now going
344120	348180	to be focusing on Challenge One, which we're going to give you a little bit of a hint on what that
348180	356120	entails now. Challenge Number One. Here's what we know. Having access to the ground station means
356120	360640	we can attempt communication, but the satellite is spinning out of control, which complicates
360640	365940	everything. The challenge. Teams must regain communication with the satellite.
376240	382460	While this event was originally planned to be in person during DEF CON in the Aerospace Village,
382460	387180	thanks to the tireless efforts of dozens of people involved behind the scenes, we're instead streaming
387180	392380	to you live throughout the event. Not only has the game itself been adapted to allow for remote
392380	398080	participation from our eight teams over VPN, but the spectator experience has changed as well.
398080	403500	There are many different ways you can now experience HackASAT. For a simpler interface,
403500	408820	just visit hackasat.com, with a web-based scoreboard, these periodic live updates streamed
408820	414120	right and center, and links to other resources. For a more immersive experience, head over to
414120	419880	virtual.hackasat.com, where you can get all of the above and more, including watching our satellites
419880	425660	live via one of four dedicated webcam feeds, get more technical game data from the 3D octagon
425660	431240	scoreboard, as well as many other resources about our competitors, the flatsats, the technologies
431240	435720	involved in space, and even communicate with other viewers in a dedicated chat and have a few
435720	440920	social interactions. No need to remember all that just now though. All you have to remember is that
440920	447740	you can find it all on hackasat.com and virtual.hackasat.com. The HackASAT team is also partnering
447740	451760	with the Aerospace Village, one of the many villages you'd normally get to experience in
451760	457240	person at DEFCON. After 15 years of attendance, I know I'm not the only one missing many of my
457240	462120	friends and our hallway conversations at DEFCON. Hopefully we can recreate a little bit of that
462120	467700	experience here. In addition to all that we have going on at HackASAT, make sure you check out the
467700	472140	rest of what DEFCON, the Aerospace Village, and our friends over at Defense Digital Service are
472140	477000	doing this weekend, and hope to see you back here as we check in on how our teams are doing and hear
477000	482440	more about the vision behind HackASAT at our next update at 11 a.m. Pacific, 2 p.m. Eastern.