Ask Slashdot: Capture the Flag Training

An anonymous reader writes "I'm a computer science professor and a group of students want me to help them train for a capture the flag competition. I am interested in this and I'm familiar with security in general, but I've never been involved in one of these competitions. Does anyone know of any resources which would be useful to train for this?"

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Keep it up

[Anonymous Coward]

Not sure if the comments are hilariously misguided or weak trolls. Either way, good job.

Next month:
Team coached by Slashdotter banned from CTF competition. It took security two hours to apprehend all team members, who were running around non-stop. "We were just looking for their flag", said one of the members. When asked for their reasons to run like madmen on coke, they had this to say: "The other teams were not even trying, they were just fucking around on their computers. We found it strange at first, but kept looking". They accused other teams of cheating, stating "we searched for hours and found not a single flag, zero. The cheating bastards broke the rules, and even laughed at us. We found out and have been banned."
When pressed for comments, their coach mumbled something about "stupid [inaudible] beta" and walked away without making eye contact.

Yes

[physicsphairy]

For your convenience I have put some good resources in C:/ on the FBI mainframe.