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CTF 201: Advanced Web Exploits for Cyber Competitions
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CTF 201: Advanced Web Exploits for Cyber Competitions

Ethical hacking, bug bounty, and web pentesting skills taught in a fun and interesting way with CTF challenges.
Created byJacob Elliott
Last updated 1/2025
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand the OWASP Top 10 and identifying common web exploits.
  • Enumerating and exploiting websites using Burpsuite, Gobuster, SQLMap, and more.
  • Tactics for approaching web challenges in CTF competitions.
  • Winning more cyber competitions!

Course content

6 sections • 39 lectures • 3h 24m total length

  • Introduction3:00

    Explore advanced web exploits for cyber competitions in CTF 201, a deep dive into the web category, with setup guidance to follow along.

  • What To Expect0:50

    Understand how the course aligns with the OWASP top ten and why dynamic web challenges reward programming and web development experience. Practice with categorized example challenges and setup guidance.

  • The OWASP Top 103:18
  • Setting Up Your Environment5:20

    Set up a dedicated Linux virtual machine to practice CTF challenges, using Kali Linux with prepackaged tools. Use VirtualBox or VMware (and optionally WSL) to keep your environment isolated.

  • Docker4:52

    Learn how to use Docker to create and run challenge containers within a Kali Linux VM, including building, launching on port 1337, and managing containers.

Requirements

  • No programming experience is required but some knowledge of Javascript, PHP, and other common web languages is very helpful.

Description

Updated: Jan. 13th, 2025 - Challenge downloads have been split up into zip files for each lecture so you don't have to redownload the entire course worth each time there is an update.


The cybersecurity industry is one of the most rapidly-changing today, and practitioners needs to be able to keep up. Learning new skills and techniques is vital to staying up-to-date with trends that can make the difference between advancement in your career, or possibly missing out. Thousands of hackers around the globe have discovered the power of gamifying their learning experience by taking part in cyber competitions. They are constantly sharpening their skills against each other in a test of wits that often also has a positive effect on their work performance as well. However, for beginners, it may seem difficult to learn how to actually get started in the realm of cyber competitions.


As an advanced CTF University course, CTF 201 will expand on the lessons taught in the lower-level CTF 101 course, and focus specifically on the Web category. Cybersecurity expert and US Cyber Team CTF Coach Jacob Elliott will lead you through lessons in common web exploits, categorized by OWASP Top 10, that you can expect to apply in cyber competitions as well as as a web app pentester on the job. Content will be added regularly with new example challenges and walkthroughs that you can follow along with to apply the skills that you learn in the course.

Who this course is for:

  • CTF players of all skill levels who would like to strengthen their skills in the Web category.

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