HACS[Hackers for applied cyber security] -2014 Mini CTF

We were determined to teach our juniors what we had learnt as a team.We thought as we have enough experience as beginners in CTF's.So we decided to conduct a Mini-CTF and help beginners learn something out of box.
As I believe that CTF is one of the most successful way of improving the skills.We had to restrict the categories and problems.The CTF was live for 2 weeks with a irc-channel to help our juniors solve the problems.
As it was a beginner CTF,i thought may be a practice session and a good challenges for beginners,so thought of sharing it in my blog.

I have given the links for Forensics and Miscellaneous in the description part.The solutions are in the slides which i have uploaded in slideshare.
The link to slides : http://www.slideshare.net/adithyanaresh/hacs-workshop-32474488

Hope you enjoy the challenges.


Regards,
Hacs team
Tanoy Bose,
Farhan sheik,
Yogeesh S,
Movnavinothan V,
Adithya Naresh

Basic tips on hacking challenges in websites

These are the very basic tips to solve challenges and a beginner knowledge in hacking
"Google is the biggest teacher for any Security Researcher or Enthusiast".
Websites :
1.hackthissite.org
2.securityoverride.org
3.enigmagroup.org
4.wechall.net
5.dareyourmind.net
6.canyouhack.it
7.thisislegal.com
8.newbiecontest.org

Web hacking :
Tip 1 : Look for web source page by right click -> View Page Source.
Tip 2 : Use Inspect element wisely to change the data.(Right click -> Inspect Element).
Tip 3 : URL location helps you to know the directories and for SQL injection problems.
Tip 4 : Use "Tamper Data" and "Add n Edit Cookie" plugins in firefox for tampering and cookie editing         challenges.
Tip 5 : Use "No script" plugin to disable javascript  and view page source is the biggest source for javascript challenges.

Cryptography Challenges :
Best tool : Crypt tool.
Link : cryptool-online.org

You can use online version of crypt tool in the website.

Basic ciphers :
1. Base64 Decoder => base64decode.org
2.Hashes
  a. LM , NTML Hash cracker => onlinehashcrack.com
  b.md5 hash cracker => md5online.org/
  c. sha1 hash cracker => crackstation.net/
3.Caeser (ROT 13,ROT 47,Shift Caeser) cracking => online-calculators.appspot.com/caesar/
4.Morse Code (Google around a bit there is a lot of online tools).
5.Vigenere,RSA is all good in Crypt tool so i suggest to download the tool.