[oss] CTF Crash Course

[Razvan Deaconescu]

Radu Caragea <sinaelgl at gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> As Razvan mentioned today in class, we are holding a CTF crash course
> [1] (for beginners to this type of contests) which is to take place on
> the 26th of October and the 2nd of November.
> Apart from the exploitation tasks we are studying in the CNS labs we
> will also be going over other categories that appear in CTFs such as:
> Recon, Forensics (including some Stegano), Bruteforcing, Classic
> Crypto, Basic Reversing, Basic Web Exploitation. Because this is an
> entry-level CTF the first set of challenges wil be very easy so we
> advise not to "peek" at any of them (or else it will probably spoil
> some of the fun). However, the learning curve will be steep so later
> on in the game tasks will become much more difficult and even more
> fun.
>
> As we are limited to one lab room there will only be ~18 seats, so
> please complete the registration form as soon as possible to express
> your interest in participating.
>
> Note: On the 15th of November there will be an online qualification
> round for the Defcamp CTF (Defcamp [3] is the most important
> conference on Information Security issues in Romania) so this workshop
> could give you an edge over other teams. The top 5 teams will get free
> access to the Bucharest conference and will go on to the Defcamp CTF
> finals (both of which will take place 29-30 November).
>
> [1]: http://koala.cs.pub.ro/hexcellents/wiki/hs/sessions/0
> [2]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ffHdb_4l85GoIveXC_kbS89U8r44wxkcIc21cTClBdc/viewform
> [3]: http://defcamp.ro/

Thanks, Radu, for the announcement.

I encourage as many of view to take part in this CTF crash course. It
will be fun and useful for the 1st assignment and for CTF contests you
may want to be part of.

Razvan