If you find a command execution vulnerability, check out this post and you can use one of the reverse shell scripts to open a shell to exploit the system: http://pentestmonkey.net/cheat-sheet/shells/reverse-shell-cheat-sheet

An interesting article about the cyber security as a number one priority in future (because of possible hacking attacks on military, medical, and power grid spheres). The US military recruits young “hackers” from high school, trying to fill the gap and flush young minds into a challenging cyber security world. Read here.

Cyber security experts believe that there have been evolving more and more jobs in cyber security area. “Education, job satisfactory, and diversity are the best lines of defense.” Full article is available here: Cyber experts about the future.

This particular Capture all flags competition was mainly focused on exploiting different web-based vulnerabilities. So, that is a really interesting, step-by-step report about all challenges and solutions presented on this event.

And, of course, here are the source codes of all challenges: Challenge me.