Club

In the cybersecurity club, we have a tradition that the board members would put together a CTF for the students to play every spring semester. What made this different from the King of the Hill is that this event runs for the entire week, has more teams, and more complex challenges. This was my experience with building out some of those challenges.

For Cybersecurity club this week, we built a knockout-style CTF to run for the hour. This is meant to be a warmup to get people excited about competing in NCL and the In-House CTF we’re hosting in March. I’m primarily focused on creating password cracking and network challenges, and I’ll talk about my process in building those out, as well as any other challenges I make.

The Intro to Cybersecurity Class this week is learning how to use Linux. Since it’s still the beginning of the semester, it would be a good idea to have the club review their Linux commands as well. I put together a mini-CTF for the club meeting for students to hone in on their terminal knowledge. From changing directory to steganography, I hid 20 flag in a zip file for everyone to find.

The Cybersecurity Club’s collaboration event with the Baddies of Tech Club. We taught beginner cybersecurity topics, introduced some common website vulnerabilities, and exploited a few of them by hacking robots.