cybersecurity is a field that you learn on your own and you learn by doing (no single person will teach you security). Even if lot of stuff seems unfamiliar and strange at first, if you keep searching them up (watching videos, reading writeups and articles) they will eventually start making sense. This is how I learnt too. Of course during the workshops you will hear the fundamentals but I'm just letting you know that the workshops alone are not enough. You have to work on your own too to make this work.
If you are completely new to cybersecurity and CTFs, no worries :) what even is a CTF?? A CTF (Capture-The-Flag) is a competition where you need to find a text in this format: FLAG{THISISTHEFLAG} using cybersecurity knowledge and techniques. A CTF has multiple challenges and you need to find the flag for each of them. Usually each challenge has a difficulty like "easy", "medium" or "hard" and a type (e.g. rev, pwn, crypto, web etc). For example, some of them focus on Web vulnerabilities, others on cheap encryption algorithms, and other challenges need low level knowledge. All these may sound new and a lot, but if at least it sounds interesting then you will get everything over time. How to start learning? If you have no idea how to start solving a challengeor if you are stuck after trying everything, you have 2 options:
- watch a youtube video that solves the specific challenge you are on.
- Read a writeup of someone who has solved the challenge (people usually upload them on github, so a simple google search will get you the solution)
When I started solving CTFs I didn't know and couldn't solve anything. The way I learned is by asking other people (in discord servers) or watching people solve challenges in videos. Whenever they mentioned or used a concept I didn't understand how or why it works, I just googled it or asked people who know (in the big 2025 ChatGPT is also a pretty good source of information).
What if I don't want to participate in CTFs? On the other hand, if CTFs don't sound interesting to you, we will also participate in other cool events like hack-050 and there will also be some pretty cool ethical-hacking workshops where you will learn things that CTFs don't teach.
Last updated: Sunday, February 8, 2026