Facebook CTF Goes Open Source

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Facebook CTF is Now Open Source!

Today, Facebook hopes to make security education easier and more accessible, especially for students, with the release of our Capture the Flag (CTF) platform to open source on GitHub! CTFs provide a safe and legal way to try your hand at hacking challenges.

The current set of challenges include problems in reverse-engineering, forensics, web application security, cryptography, and binary exploitation. You can also build your own challenges to use with the Facebook platform for a customized competition.

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How do I use FBCTF?

• Organize a competition.
  • This can be with as few as two participants, all the way up to several hundred.
  • The participants can be physically present, active online, or a combination of the two.
• Follow setup instructions below to spin up platform infrastructure.
• Enter challenges into admin page
• Have participants register as teams
  • If running a closed competition:
    • In the admin page, generate and export tokens to be shared with approved teams, then point participants towards the registration page
  • If running an open competition:
    • Point participants towards the registration page
• Enjoy!

Does not operate on Windows or OS X, use Ubuntu under VM software.