On November 25, Hanan did another sharing session on unleashing and exploring the fundamentals of CTF! This open sharing session was organised at UniKL with the intention of exposing beginners to the Capture the Flag competition and how to play the game.

As a CTF player and challenge creator herself, she guided participants during a 3-hour session with fundamental understanding, tips and tricks to solve challenges, as well as her personal perspective as a challenge creator in creating challenges. She also provided hands-on practical and mini CTF challenge for the participants to gain actual experience from!

We hope that her spirit of exposing newcomers and beginners to participating in CTF can increase the level of cybersecurity enthusiasm among students.

On the 21st to 24th of November, four teams representing Malaysia arrived in Jakarta to compete in the first Capture the Flag competition by Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), called Asean Cyber Shield. The two teams from the Student Category were participated by Team Cincai and Team Excelsior. Some of the members are from MCC2022 and MCC2023 alumni.

All four teams managed to move to the Final round after able to be the top 5 in each categories. Team Cincai managed to secure 3rd place during this competition and at the same time set a history for Malaysia in the international CTF.

That's right! We recently have been informed that one of our MCC2022 alumni , Shafiq is currently in Japan as part of his exchange culture program. Even though he is currently in a foreign country, his love in cybersecurity is still burning. On November 11th, Shafiq together with his mate, Irfan attended AVTOKYO, a Computer Security Conference operated by the Japanese Hacker Community. From their feedback, the event was awesome and there were many interesting topics that they learned about especially on the malware and AI topics.

We hope they could still be able to join more cybersecurity events over there and bring back more good memories to be shared with us, here in Malaysia!

Team Cincai - MCC alumni who were in the team: Alvin and KS; recently representing Malaysia in Bangkok to compete in an onsite Capture the Flag game organised by ASEAN-Japan Cybersecurity Capacity Building Center.

Competing with the ASEAN teams, Team Cincai managed to solve all challenges on the first day. However, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand were faster than them on that day and leaving them at the 4th place. So close Team Cincai!! But we are proud with you guys!!!

Our future security researcher, Fatah, was invited on November 10th by the organisers from GMI, UTeM, and other sponsors who collaborated to give a technical sharing to all cybersecurity students from both institutions.

For more than two hours, he managed to share technical information while also teaching the students some technical skills and tricks! The sharing revolves around Assembly Language Programming for Windows x86/x64 for Reverse Engineering and Binary Exploitation, in which he managed to cover 28 topics focusing on the art of Intel processor assembly for Windows and Linux!

On November 4th, Nik Amir together with his friends successfully brought back the Capture the Flag competition in UNITEN. It has been years since the last CTF was held in UNITEN. Amir hopes that with the recent 10:Hats Internal CTF, UNITEN could produces more passionate and talented youth in cybersecurity.