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The best Ctf newsletters

7 newsletters, ranked by editorial quality and how recently they published. Looking for something more specific? Search instead.

rayanle.cat· irregular· Published 5 months ago

Detailed CTF writeups walking through web security challenges from competitions such as NorthSec and Shutlock. Each post explains the vulnerabilities found, the tools and commands used, and how flags were obtained.

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1337sheets.com· weekly· Published 20 days ago

Step-by-step penetration testing writeups for Hack The Box machines, covering reconnaissance, initial access, foothold and privilege escalation with the commands used. Each issue walks through one machine, with difficulty ratings and notes on pitfalls encountered along the way.

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blog.qz.sg· irregular· Inactive for over a year

A personal blog by a computer engineering graduate, mostly walkthroughs of CTF challenges such as PicoCTF web exploitation and CSAW Android reverse engineering. Readers get step-by-step solutions with code snippets, decoding tricks and screenshots.

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infosecarticles.com· irregular· Inactive for over a year

A blog of step-by-step HackTheBox and TryHackMe penetration-testing walkthroughs, showing nmap scans, gobuster enumeration and privilege escalation commands. Readers get reproducible command-line procedures for practicing CTF machines.

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blog.cyber.info· irregular· Published 11 days ago

Cyber Info is a cybersecurity community newsletter that mostly announces partnerships, giveaways, CTF events and webinars with vendors such as ANY.RUN and NODE: PROTOCOL. Readers get event dates, prizes and links, with a few brief personal remarks on hands-on security learning.

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blog.ctfd.io· irregular· Published 20 days ago

This blog carries release announcements for CTFd, the capture-the-flag platform, mainly security fixes and upgrade instructions for self-hosted and hosted instances. Readers get terse changelogs and advice on which vulnerabilities to act on.

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blog.hacking-lab.com· irregular· Inactive for over a year

Short platform notices from Hacking-Lab, an online security training lab, covering how students submit challenge solutions, where to find the knowledge base, and how to connect to the lab over VPN. Readers get practical usage instructions for the platform rather than in-depth security content.

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