This year I finally took part in the Cyber Security Belgium CTF challenge—a yearly competition between students from all universities across Belgium in cyber security.

Our team name was c0nd1t10ns (don’t even ask, I wasn’t the one to choose the name). We made sure that each of us had a specific topic to specialize in and focus on during the challenge. Since I was the only person who had studied reverse engineering, I had to tackle the reverse engineering tasks. These proved to be quite challenging for me, which was expected since the course I took on this topic was almost a year ago and I had forgotten almost everything from it.

On the other hand, I found the steganography tasks to be very enjoyable and fun to complete. Unfortunately, due to illness, I was only able to participate for one day of the challenge. Even so, we managed to secure 70th place overall (3rd place within my university)!

If I had had more time, I would definitely have explored the web and mobile security sections further. From what I saw, they looked quite interesting and challenging, and I’d love to dive deeper into those areas in future competitions.