30 students from Technical University (TU) Darmstadt have qualified to attend "Hacker Contest" in the winter semester 2023/24 by successfully completing the registration challenge. In this popular event, students gain insights into IT security and get hands-on experience with tools and methods for identifying vulnerabilities in networks and systems in the usd HeroLab's PentestLab.
The Challenge
The challenge was to thoroughly examine a hard disk with an outdated operating system in order to find important tokens for a Bitcoin wallet. The participants had to complete several small tasks, each of which provided a specific character string as a "flag". There were a total of 6 flags that could be collected and submitted.
Experts from usd HeroLab have published a Write-up of the challenge for you in their LabNews. If you want to know what a Hacker Contest Challenge looks like, or what flags you might have missed: Click here for the sample solution Hacker Contest Challenge WiSe 2023/24.
