The What
I try to participate in some hacking CTF activities as a way to learn a bit about hacking and computer security. As a way to develop my website, both in features and in content, I am going to start doing some write ups on the content we cover. I figure that I am at least getting some information to slap on a resume at some point.
CTF TLDR
Capture The Flags (CTFs) are hacking challenges in where there is a
setup given to the contestants and they have a limited time to
try and submit the flag. These are really controlled and generally
straightforward although not always, thank you misc challenges.
My Setup
These challenges are all quite simple and should only take an hour or two. I use my lappy and sometimes a virtual machine. The challenges almost always have a server of some sort that we have to hack. This is important for the pwn challenges so that the flag is not grabbed instantly. This is also how the web focused challenges work. There are some that are more focused towards hiding the flag instead.
Writeups
- – Fishybuffer
- – Hacked