Links to access training materials for the qualifier:
Participants can refer to the NCL online training materials (pre-recorded basic training videos below), covering the following topics:
- Session 1: Cryptography (Course Videos)
- Session 2: Networking Fundamentals (Course Videos)
- Session 3: Red Teaming & Introduction to CTF (Course Videos)
- Session 4: Digital Forensics (Course Videos)
Additional Advanced Topics:
- Session 5: Additional Topics on Networking (Course Videos)
- Session 6: Python Program to solve CTF challenges (Course Videos)
- Session 7: Additional Topics on Digital Forensics (Course Videos)
Online platforms such as TryHackMe, picoCTF, and Hack The Box can be used as demos in the training program. Participants can use these platforms to learn and practice on the real CTF environment.
Participants can refer to any other relevant training resources (not limited to NCL materials).
The online qualifier contest will be a 3-hour continuous open book CTF contest. The CTF questions for the qualifier will be set based on the above topics but not limited to. Students are encouraged to learn any concepts which will be helpful to take part in the online qualifier contest.
Python programming knowledge required:
- Basic python programming knowledge about Comments, Variables, Data Types, Conditional Statement, Loop, file I/O, Operators, Conditional Statement, OOPs Concepts, Exception Handling, Collections.
- Network library such as Requests, Socket, Scapy, Paramiko, Socket.IO, HTTPx, PyCurl.
- Cryptography library such as SSL, Cryptography, PyCrypto, PyCryptodome, Hashlib, PyNaCl.
- Library for penetration test such as Impacket, Python-nmap, Pwntools, BeautifulSoup.
C Programming knowledge required:
- Basic C program Compilation Skills, Basic Syntax and Structure, Data Types and Memory, Control Structures, Functions, Pointers and Arrays, Strings, Memory Management.
- File I/O, Bitwise Operations, Buffer Overflows, Structs and Typedefs, Assembly and System Calls, Debugging and Tools(optional).
Other References:
- Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications, N. Ferguson, B. Schneier & T. Kohno.
https://www.schneier.com/books/cryptography-engineering - Coursera: Cryptography I, Dan Boneh
https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/courses/OnlineCrypto/ - ED Zwicky, S Cooper, DB Chapman, Building Internet Firewalls: Internet and Web Security (2nd edition), 2000.
Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition[Book] - TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) 37647th Edition by W. Richard Stevens (Author)
https://www.rfc-editor.org/ - Fundamentals of Digital Forensics: Theory, Methods, and Real-Life Applications, Joakim Kävrestad
- Digital Investigation Techniques: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], Lyle, J. , Guttman, B. , Butler, J. , Sauerwein, K. , Reed, C. and Lloyd, C. (2022),
https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8354,
https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=935497 - Red teaming techniques course: https://tryhackme.com/path/outline/redteaming
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