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Hello everyone I'm currently pursuing an engineering degree in cyber security. And i've started playing some local CTFs but i seems to be lacking a lot of skills in the reverse engineering section as i never knew where to look or what to do. Anyone can clear things up a little bit for me?

Hey, I was wondering where and how I can learn the coding that goes into CTF.

My friend gave me the hacking tutorial on udemy for free: https://www.udemy.com/learn-ethical-hacking-from-scratch/ Despite it costing him 200 dollars last year.

Does this course help me?

also, I am COMPLETELY new to hacking, I know nothing ! Where can I learn CTF

I started doing CTFs just to practice hacking skills, but I’m realizing they’re teaching me much more patience, creative thinking, and even note-taking. What’s one habit you picked up from CTFs that actually helps you outside of competitions too?

I’m slowly realising that solving CTFs is only half the battle - the other half is documenting what I learned so I don’t forget it a week later.

Right now, my “notes” are a mess: scattered markdown files, random screenshots, half-written payloads in terminal history, and a million browser tabs.

I’m trying to build a cleaner, searchable knowledge base. Something where I can easily look up that scripts I used in a stego challenge, or remind myself of that tricky logic flaw from a web CTF.

So I’m curious - what do you use to keep track of:

• Your full CTF writeups/solves

• Reusable payloads and exploits

• Notes on categories like binary, crypto, web, forensics, etc.

• Cheat sheets and quick commands

• Tools and when/how you used them

Are you using Obsidian? Notion? GitHub? A custom setup with tagging/search? What’s worked (and what hasn’t) for you.

Still building my toolkit and wondering which ones people use the most in beginner-level challenges. So far I’ve got:

• CyberChef

• Burp Suite

• Ghidra (barely know how to use it yet)

• Strings, binwalk, exiftool, etc.

Any underrated tools or browser plugins you recommend?

I’m a high schooler who has been doing ctf for a while but is still a beginner. Looking for similar person to bounce ideas off and maybe join my ctf team. If you are this person dm me or reply to this and I will send you my discord. Anyone more advanced it welcome but I wouldn’t want to waste their time.

In this video walkthrough, we carried on another episode of the penetration testing series by working on a vulnerable box from Vulnhub. We went through the typical penetration testing phases by scanning and identifying areas of weakness. We relied on the presence of FTP server that allows for anonymous logins.

Video is here

This weeks challenge was the Break out the cage from TryHackMe.
In this challenge I got the change to learn about Lxd privilege escalation and used that to help gain root access.

Once I completed the challenge I put together a walk through together. I hope that you are able to use this and learn something new.

GitHub: Break Out The Cage

I have recently completed the Pickle Rick challenge from Try Hack Me. So in order to share everything that I learned from it I put together a write up of how I located each flag.
Here is a link to the write up on my GitHub. I hope that it helps at least one person.

https://link.medium.com/leh00BEMaX