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What is CTF and how to get started!

atan on March 28, 2019

CTFs are one of my favorite hobbies. I love the feeling of solving a particularly difficult task and seeing all the puzzle pieces click together. I...
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Boris Quiroz

Hello! Just to mention that seems to be a typo in https://cftime.org - CTF event tracker. (Missing t between c and f?) :)

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atan

Sheesh that typo has been there for way too long! Thanks for checking out this ancient post!

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Aman Jaswal

loved the info. It's been months since I have been looking for resources to start with security and then I find this.. It's like a ray of hope for something I want to learn. Please don't mind if I bug you with more questions !! ;-)

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Ochirgarid Chinzorig

Thank you, The sources are wonderful, I think adding some video tutorials to the list like "LiveOverflow" channel on Youtube

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ASM💡📚.

thank so much 😊

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mvisaya

Thank you @atan, this was very clear and informative. I appreciate you also linking to other resources :)

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Lena

Thank you for this blog post. This inspired me to publish write-ups of CTFs on dev.to! So far I've published some write-ups of CTFs, and I plan to publish more in the future!

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Franco Melandri

First time I ever heard about CTF, thanks for the tiny description.
My curiosuity was born from here:
google.github.io/kctf/

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HapyDox

It's very useful for me <3

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batchuharish

Thank you so much.

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saktipong

Thank so much.

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Musab

Thank you this cleared up many things

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Vinay Rayala • Edited

Very useful information from this blog. Impressive writeup on CTF. Satisfied with the details contained in the article. Helpful for beginner to know about CTF challenge.

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John Dow

Thank you so much for talking the basics.
This is an open gate for these like me who wants to learn.

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parrot • Edited

This is an awesome article. be sure to check out Parrot CTFs I made this a while back : )

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suhaibali2002

Thank you for the information

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Chizubem Endurance Ogbonnaya

thank you so much for this, really helped me as a beginner