Glasgow Uni Hackathon and CTF

Posted on 12 October 2024

I designed and built a 2 part capture the flag event for the Glasgow Uni Hackathon and CTF Weekend. The CTF was written in Go and consisted of two parts:

• A programming challenge where students had to write their own network enabled brute force password cracking tool.
  • I provided example code in Python which they built on top of.
  • If the server received 100 requests it would enable a basic “captcha” system which the students had to bypass.
• A Web based challenge where students had to decode and manipulate the auth cookie in order to gain admin rights

In addition to the CTF challenge I also gave a presentation on a career in Cybersecurity, explaining how broad the job was and gave some examples of various incidents I had responded to in the past.

CTF Repo

Link: https://github.com/copethomas/guts-24-workshop

Photos

Venue

CTF