Women Who Code Capture The Flag
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The Richmond chapter of Women Who Code is proud to partner with GE Digital to present this End of the Summer Capture the Flag event! Test your skills against those of your fellow technologists by partnering with a team of men and women from all technology backgrounds. NO prior coding experience is required! If you have never played Capture the Flag before, please arrive at 5:30 to learn how the challenges and scoring work!
Agenda:
• 5:30 - 6:00pm - Optional: Introduction to Capture the Flag
• 6:00 - 6:15pm - Dinner is served!
• 6:15 - 7:45pm - Capture the Flag Challenges (Dinner is still available while you work)
• 7:45 - 8:00pm - Prizes!
What to bring:
Please remember to bring your laptops. Participants will be randomly assembled into groups of 4.
Prior experience is not required, but we recommend reviewing following topics:
General programming terms
Binary calculations
Git commands
Converting hexadecimal representation to ASCII
Generating hash for a file
Rest API verbs
Regex operation
Python syntax
Decoding text with right shift
Use of basic authentication in the http header
You will be allowed to use internet. However, we do ask that you refrain from streaming or downloading/uploading any large files during the CTF contest, since the bandwidth will be limited.
At least one team member should have packet sniffing software like Wireshark. (Install Wireshark or Kali Linux VM)
At least one team member should be able to open file formats like .exe. (Bring Windows laptop or install Kali Linux VM)
You don’t have to have Kali Linux, but Kali Linux already comes with Wireshark and other software that may be needed for the challenges.
Most of challenges do not require Kali Linux, but few challenges do, and you may have advantage if you have Kali Linux pre-installed. (Or Wireshark)
To install Kali Linux VM follow these steps:
Download VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Download Kali Linux ISO image: https://www.kali.org/downloads/3/
Add Kali Linux VM on VirtualBox
Turn the created VM on, click on the disk image in the bottom, and add the downloaded ISO image
Power off the VM, and turn it on again – default credentials for Kali Linux are: user: root, password: toor