We teach free computing and security courses with the goal of introducing as many beginners to Capture the Flag competitions as we can.
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Are you a student looking to learn the fundamentals, or a teacher looking for resources to point people to?
Check out our four free courses and a community dedicated to teaching beginners about Computing Fundamentals and Security.
hoppersroppers.org/training
I get why training/certification orgs lie about these sorts of things, but when you see non-profits parroting these lines it gets ... confusing. Would be worth someone spending the time tracking down the many incentives for the various groups that perpetuate this nonsense.
This is an awesome introduction to Reverse Engineering via picoGym from a good friend of Roppers!
#PicoCTF is just days away!!
To encourage participation, I created my FIRST YouTube video to help beginners get up to speed by solving 12 #ReverseEngineering challenges on their platform SLOWLY.
I hope it gives someone confidence to try these problems 😃
youtu.be/r_daujp149A
Absolutely 🔥 writeup on the i-Soon leaks
margin.re/2024/02/same-same-…
Great insight into the actual meaningful takeaways we can learn from the leak, but at Roppers we are most excited about the clear ties drawn between the 🇨🇳 CTF community and hacking companies.
whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing…
Roppers strongly opposes this press release: memory safety is a skill issue. At Roppers, we support the second amendment right granted to us by the Founding Fathers to rip out a couple hundred lines of C and push to main.
It's that time of year, picoCTF! Starting in two weeks, just enough time to get ready and be on top of your game for the best event of the year!
📢Registration is open for picoCTF 2024!
🔗 How to Register:
Visit picoCTF.org, sign in, and click on "Register".
Start warming up with our practice challenges to get a head start.
📅 pico 2024 runs March 12-26!
#picoCTF2024 #Cybersecurity #CarnegieMellon
Currently at the @USCyberGames Draft Day! Some fantastic athletes being selected, Season III is going to be awesome! Let me know if you have any questions!
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Diversity in CTFs is having its moment at the @CyLab Partners Conference. 🎓📊
"Breaking Barriers: "Increasing Diversity in CTF competitions" – A research journey fueled by dedication to change from @CMU students and @HananHibshi, with the support of our amazing sponsor,@Cisco
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CTF was my gateway drug into computer security… so I’d be careful with those links ;)
And what I told Ryan is true — when I joined @rpisec in college I didn’t what x86 was & they refused to give me a disassembler until I wrote a buffer overflow exploit with objdump -d -M intel
Coming up next on the pod: The incomparable Perri Adams (@perribus) on the value of CTFs and DARPA's new $20M AI Cyber Challenge #SecurityConversations #AIxCC
A snippet 👇
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I asked DEF CON CTF organizer Perri Adams about the make-up of a good capture-the-flag player and for recommendations for someone now getting started @perribus
Check out our new(ish) Technical Security Fundamentals course! This course assumes some strong command-line skills and teaches how computer security really works! roppers.org/courses/technica…
While we haven't been tweeting, Roppers is still going strong! Check out our new effort intended to help teachers supplement their existing curriculum with self-guided computing and security training!
roppers.org/pages/teach
These changes are important steps towards making Roppers easier to incorporate into classrooms around the world. The next main steps will be getting the Roppers Teaching Guides completely nailed down and actually finding the brave teachers who want to try out the material.