Capture The Flags (CTF) are special designed challenges in the area of cyber security. The main target of every Capture the Flag Game is to get the "flag" -  Flags are usually random strings embedded in those challenges. To obtain the Flag the competitor often has to find the vulnerabilitys that were hidden in the challenges by the creator. Therefore you have to bring a broad range of knowledge and skill along if you want to come through those challenges. As there are several sites on the internet offering those challenges at all kind of difficulty-levels, even beginners can work their way up to the more demanding challenges. I just started my journey in this field at picoCTF  .

Here, i want to write about the different ways i've tried to solve those challenges as i'm kind of person that is learning most efficiently when processing and explaining in retrospect.