Capture The Flag Challenges from Cyber Security Base with F-Secure 2017/2018
Setup and Environment As already last year (2016/2017), the University of Helsinki (Finland) created an online course on mooc.fi called Cyber Security Base with F-Secure . You could get 10 ECTS credits for participating. "By the end of the course, hard working participants are expected to possess the skills required from those who work as Junior Security Consultants in the industry." I participated last year and I liked it. The last part of course is a CTF (Capture The Flag) challenge in jeopardy style. In order to pass, you had to solve 80% of the "easy" challenges and 60% of the "medium" challenges. There were 12 "easy" challenges, 9 "medium" ones and five in the "hard" category. In order to see the challenges of the next level, you had to solve 80% of the previous level first. The "easy" ones were released on a Monday evening, the "medium" ones on a Tuesday evening and the "hard" ones on a