Hacker's Dome - First Blood CTF

When it comes to Information Security, there's a great way to learn, train and keep sharp your skills. This can be done using gamification mechanics to speed up the learning curve and improve retention rate. Capture The Flag competitions use gamification mechanics and represent one of the best ways to learn security hands on.

We've created Hacker's Dome as a place for CTF365  users to play weekend CTFs with great prizes. In order to get access to Hacker's Dome, the first thing you need is a registered and confirmed CTF365 account.

Although we're at the start of our journey, the goal of Hacker's Dome is to become your weekend security training - where fun, entertainment and awesome prizes will be at its best.

Hacker's Dome is a CTF Platform where you can deploy your own CTF and invite web developers, system administrators and security professionals to take your challenges. Think RackSpace, of CTF Competitions.

We design the challenges with public vulnerabilities or known misconfigurations. Most of them can be found on exploit-db.com or other public sources. We don’t target 0-day vulnerabilities, so you won’t have to disclose your knowledge about arcane methods for getting access to a machine. We use Kali and the basic tools for the purpose of demonstrating the concept of a CTF challenge when we discuss the technical aspects of a competition.

Hacker's Dome - First Blood

First Blood is our first CTF and will start on May 17 2014 15:00 UTC.

Difficulty Grade: Beginners/Intermediate

The Prizes:

We have awesome prizes packages worth > $ 6000 US

First Place Package:

• WiFi Pineapple Mark V Ultra Bundle (because you love to hack)
• One year CTF365 Premium Access (because you love to train your skills)
• Personalized T-shirt and Hat with your CodeName on it. (because you deserve to show off)
• "Hacker's Dome" + "Hacker's Dome - First Blood" stickers

Second Place Package:

• WiFi Pineapple Mark V Tactical Bundle (because you love to hack)
• 6 Months CTF365 Premium Access (because you love to train your skills)
• Personalized T-shirt and Hat with your CodeName on it. (because you deserve to show off)
• "Hacker's Dome" + "Hacker's Dome - First Blood" stickers

Third Place Package:

• WiFi Pineapple Mark V Travel Bundle (because you love to hack)
• 3 Months CTF365 Premium Access (because you love to train your skills)
• Personalized T-shirt and Hat with your CodeName on it. (because you deserve to show off)
• "Hacker's Dome" + "Hacker's Dome - First Blood" stickers

The Raffle

Yes! We have a raffle with a King Prize thanks to Rapid7 - Metasploit guys.

Raffle King Prize - Full Year Metasploit Pro Licence

The fact that Metasploit gave us the opportunity to run a raffle off such great King Prize, makes us proud of what we've done and it encourages us to keep up our good work.

Interested candidates - Click here to register.

About Author - Marius Corici

Serial entrepreneur, in love with Artificial Intelligence. Never a quitter, always a perfectionist, looking for challenges that will change the world we live in. I believe in people and great teams and I do hate that I don’t manage to grab some time to start blogging.