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Learning Resources

picoCTF is far more than a competition. Learn and explore the cybersecurity world here.

Learning Guides

These learning guides provide basic background information about Cybersecurity. For novice and cyber security enthusiasts alike, these guides can help you get prepared to solve challenge problems:

General Skills Cryptography Web Exploitation Forensics Binary Exploitation Reversing

Video Tutorials

The video tutorials provide detailed explanations about challenges presented in our past competitions. After watching these tutorials, you will know how to approach and solve every challenge in the previous competitions.

Watch on YouTube

External Resources

Not satisfied with the resources above? Need to learn more? While the following resources are not affiliated with picoCTF, our problem and education developers find them very useful:

Gitbook from Trail of Bits

CTF Learn

Capture the Flag 101

CYBERPATRIOT The National Youth Cyber Education Program

Cisco Networking Academy

Khan Academy - Cybersecurity 101

NSA Codebreaker


Thanks for reading the resources page! Here's a flag for your time:

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