Introduction to CTF and Password Cracking // 22-12-2021

Ahead of our 2021 year-end Capture the Flag competition, NYP InfoSec organized a short sharing session and workshop.

To start the session, our Head of Development Mark introduced our club.

Next, our committee member Ee Sheng shared about the various categories of CTF challenges, and some strategies for solving them.

You can find the sharing slides here.

After that, it was time for some hacking! Our first-year committee members Carl and Xin Ying showed participants how to use the popular password cracking tool John the Ripper. 

You can find our practical workshop slides here.

We’re glad that the event went smoothly with no technical issues. In the future, we’ll also be conducting more workshops on other topics. If you'd like to be the first to hear about them, please consider joining our discord server.

Thank you everyone. See you again soon!

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This event was as part of the Nanyang Polytechnic’s Tech Week initiative. The Tech Week initiative aims to help first year students discover their interests in the Tech landscape.

You can read more about the events held by other special interest groups here:

NLP & Deployment (hosted by NYP AI)

Analytics with Netflix Data and Intro to Algorithms (hosted by NYP Ladies In Tech)

FUN FACT
Did you know? You can use this website (https://hashes.com/en/tools/hash_identifier) to help you identify what format a hash is in.

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