What a hell of a challenge!
🎉 Successfully completed Yansanity (Easy)! 🎉
🎉 Successfully completed Yansanity (Hard)! 🎉
Did you ever reverse-engineer a CPU & operating system where you didn't know the instruction opcodes, registers, CPU flags, syscall numbers etc.?
#pwncollege #ctf #y85
CTF Writeup: pwn.college - Advent of Pwn 2025
pwn.college is an educational cybersecurity platform by Arizona State University. Their Advent of Pwn 2025 released one challenge per day during December.
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#ctf #cybersecurity #pwncollege #adventofpwn
My pwn.college hacking activity dashboard showing a 57 day streak
Not long ago I posted about https://pwn.college I got hooked up with it myself, and I almost got my yellow belt 💛 almost, ‘cause I still have some of the earlier/easier challenges left 😅 I’ll tackle them after the holidays 🏝️ before looking at the more […]
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As a side note, since somebody asked… 20 years ago I would’ve (and I have in multiple occasions) recommended the legendary #abo series by gera web.archive.org/web/20150418052653/http:...
#xdev #pwncollege #lectures #challenges #hackers
— Just overflow the shellcode on the stack and jump to it — Sure grandma let's get you to bed
As an old fart in #xdev, I get asked often, mostly by young coworkers, how to get into binary exploitation in 2025. I looked around, and here’s my recommendation:
https://pwn.college
#pwncollege is a huge collection of free #lectures and practical […]
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Of course, some of this just needs moar #pwncollege (example: we're building Brown Belt material around tackling the security of complex targets), but there's still a fundamental education-to-non-education phase shift that our hackers must overcome. Our interim solution? CTF!
And AZ CTF comes to a close! Congrats to the winners! And, of course, everyone can now tackle the chals on #pwncollege at: pwn.college/az-ctf-2...
Hello hackers! The next #pwncollege Quarterly Quiz IS HERE! Want to test your skills on a clever collection of challenges covering concepts in v8 (chrome's javascript engine) pwning? Head over to pwn.college/quarterl... and get hacking!
#pwncollege, and the ease of creating custom dojos in it, provides a neat solution here! Building off of @sajjadium's amazing file preservation efforts, our researcher Pratham (prathamgupta36.githu...) got challenges running and tested in the dojo, and the CTF Archive was born!
We observe this in Capture the Flag: #pwncollege-trained players definitely have a leg up over a typical newcomer, but there is a missing link between even "applied" education and actual practice. The gap might be one of confidence or lack of exposure to variety, but it's there.
By 2026, ACE will launch a Masters in Applied Computer Security, expanding the pwn-heavy material of #pwncollege into a rounded graduate-level cybersecurity curriculum. As with our current material, all this will be free for use and adoption by other institutions and enthusiasts!
Curriculum Gap: #pwncollege is great at teaching people advanced pwning, and there are platforms (see https://wargame.nexus with other types of hands-on material, but there isn't an unified, applied cybersecurity curriculum that students can pursue in, say, a degree program.
We've started bridging this, first with Linux commandline, #pwncollege style (pwn.college/linux-lu...), and with more to come! The goal, of course, is to make our curriculum accessible to students of any background knowledge. But this is the easy part: we teach for a living!
Input Gap: most cybersecurity coursework requires some amount of CS/IT knowledge. For example, #pwncollege has prereqs determined by where it fits in ASU's CS curriculum. This limits our impact: should not knowing Linux commandline prevent people from tackling our material?
We started hearing crazy stories. Interviewers nerding out with interviewees over shared #pwncollege experiences, hackers neglecting CTF competitions to instead grind #pwncollege, people being inspired to go back to school, change career trajectories, undertake PhDs!
#pwncollege captured lightning in a bottle! Students everywhere watched our lectures, worked through our challenges, helped and got help on our discord, and Learned to Hack! As word spread, @pwncollege grew to be used by tens of thousands of students and universities worldwide!
In 2018, we made https://pwn.college our hands-on paradigm for teaching cybersecurity. This is a great story in itself, and if you're curious about #pwncollege history, check out @TheConnorNelson's PhD proposal (www.youtube.com/watc...) & defense (www.youtube.com/watc...)
The Quarterly Quiz is tougher than expected... but we got your back! @ky1ebot, the author of these challenges, will host a special #pwncollege office hours at 4:30 Arizona time (4:30pm Pacific, 7:30pm Eastern, 23:30 UTC) at twitch.tv/pwncollege! Drop in and pick his brains!
Hello Hackers! The inaugural #pwncollege Quarterly Quiz is LIVE at pwn.college/quarterl...! It’s a series of tough kernel pwning chals from the one and only @ky1ebot, kernel hacker extraordinaire, and will lead you on a journey through Linux kernel pwning and the VFS subsystem!
Hello hackers! Tomorrow, April 1st, at 5pm Arizona time (8pm Eastern), we’ll launch the inaugural #pwncollege Quarterly Quiz! It’ll be a tough set of challenges written by one of the top hackers in the world! Drop by pwn.college/quarterl... tomorrow, or read on for more details!
