CyberShield Showdown CTF 2025 – September 13-14, 20-21

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Level Up Before the CTF

Whether you're a first-timer or sharpening your skills, this section will guide you through key resources to help you prepare, practice, and play smarter.

Learn the Basics

🔍 1. Information Gathering (Reconnaissance) 📡 2. Scanning & Enumeration 🛠️ 3. Exploitation Basics 🔓 4. Web Exploitation 🔐 5. Password Attacks 🧠 6. Linux & Windows Fundamentals 🧩 7. Binary Exploitation (Optional for Beginners) 📦 8. Using Common CTF Tools 🎯 9. CTF-Specific Skills

CTF 101

🔐 1. Cryptography 🌐 2. Web Exploitation 🧱 3. Reverse Engineering 💻 4. Binary Exploitation 🕵️ 5. OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) 📁 6. Forensics 🧩 7. Misc / General Skills

Tools of the Trade

🛰️ 1. Nmap 🌐 2. Burp Suite (Community Edition) 📂 3. Dirbuster / Gobuster 🔐 4. John the Ripper / Hashcat 🧪 5. Netcat (nc) 📡 6. Wireshark 🛠️ 7. CyberChef 🧮 8. Ghidra (or Binary Ninja / IDA Free) 🧵 9. Strings & Binwalk 🔧 10. Python & Bash Scripting

Join the Community

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Schedule

Red Teaming CTF

A Red Teaming CTF involves a full simulated attack against a network or system, similar to a real-world penetration testing scenario.

Bootcamp – Friday, September 12, አርብ, መስከረም 2

Day 1 – Saturday, September 13, ቅዳሜ, መስከረም 3

Day 2 – Sunday, September 14, እሁድ, መስከረም 4

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Incident Response CTF

An Incident Response CTF involves responding to a cybersecurity incident. Scenarios, logs, network captures, or system images are provided for analysis and remediation proposal.

Bootcamp – Friday, September 19, አርብ, መስከረም 9

Day 1 – Saturday, September 20, ቅዳሜ, መስከረም 10

Day 2 – Sunday, September 21, እሁድ, መስከረም 11

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We are excited to announce that ALX Addis Ababa will be hosting CyberShield Showdown 2025, including both weekends of CTF competitions and the pre-event Friday bootcamps.

Located in the heart of Addis Ababa, ALX offers a tech-focused and vibrant environment with modern collaborative spaces, making it the perfect home for Ethiopia’s growing cybersecurity community.

Address and full details will be updated soon.

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