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Cyber Apocalypse 2024: Speedrunning very easy challenges by Panawesome

Cyber Apocalypse 2024: Speedrunning very easy challenges by Panawesome

Source: YouTube · Hack The Box · published Mar 8, 2024 · 27:51

Cybersecurity
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This video demonstrates solving very easy Cyber Apocalypse CTF challenges to help beginners prepare for their first CTF 0:01.

Key Takeaways:
• "Trapped Source" challenge involves finding the password in the page source code, teaching beginners to always check client-side code 1:01
• "Gunhead" challenge demonstrates command injection vulnerability through the ping functionality, showing how unsanitized input can be exploited 3:10
• "Robots" challenge highlights SQL injection in a login form, emphasizing why parameterization is important 11:37
• The reversing challenge shows how to extract strings from executables to find flags 19:21
• "Ancient Encodings" crypto challenge teaches that encoding is not encryption and demonstrates decoding a base64 flag 21:06

These beginner-friendly challenges build confidence and teach fundamental security concepts 27:00.

Sources:

  • 0:01 Introduction to the purpose of solving easy CTF challenges
  • 1:01 Finding password in source code
  • 3:10 Command injection demonstration
  • 11:37 SQL injection vulnerability
  • 19:21 Using strings command on executable
  • 21:06 Decoding base64 flag in crypto challenge

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hi everyone this is Banos from hack the box and in this video I will try to solve as many very easy challenges as I can from last year cyber apocalypse CF in 20 minutes the reason we do this is that we have noticed that for a lot of people cyber apocalypse is their first CF and just in case that tomorrow is going to be your first CF I want you to have a look at as many very easy challenges as you can beforehand I hope this will help you and I hope if you know how to solve them this will encourage you because a lot of times um starting a new hobby or going into CTF can be an intimidating procedure so without losing any more time let's start so this is the first challenge I think the name of it was trapped source and uh the name can be a hint but uh let's go the only thing that we have for t…